NYSE:XEL - Xcel Energy Stock Price, Forecast & News

Xcel Energy trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "XEL."

Xcel Energy announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, December 11th. Investors of record on Thursday, December 26th will be given a dividend of $0.405 per share on Monday, January 20th. This represents a $1.62 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.31%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, December 24th. View Xcel Energy's Dividend History.

Xcel Energy Inc (NYSE:XEL) released its earnings results on Thursday, January, 30th. The utilities provider reported $0.56 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.53 by $0.03. The utilities provider earned $2.80 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $3.04 billion. The business's quarterly revenue was down 2.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $0.42 earnings per share. View Xcel Energy's Earnings History.

Xcel Energy is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 23rd 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Xcel Energy.

Xcel Energy updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Thursday, January, 30th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.73-2.83 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $2.78.

12 brokerages have issued 12 month price objectives for Xcel Energy's stock. Their forecasts range from $57.00 to $77.00. On average, they anticipate Xcel Energy's share price to reach $64.75 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 7.8%. View Analyst Price Targets for Xcel Energy.

12 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Xcel Energy in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 8 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Xcel Energy.

News articles about XEL stock have trended somewhat positive on Monday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group ranks the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Xcel Energy earned a media sentiment score of 1.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the utilities provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Xcel Energy.

Some companies that are related to Xcel Energy include NextEra Energy (NEE), Duke Energy (DUK), Southern (SO), American Electric Power (AEP), Exelon (EXC), Eversource Energy (ES), FirstEnergy (FE), Edison International (EIX), Entergy (ETR), PPL (PPL), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), OGE Energy (OGE), IDACORP (IDA), Portland General Electric (POR) and Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Xcel Energy investors own include Exelon (EXC), WEC Energy Group (WEC), Potash Co. of Saskatchewan (POT), Chevron (CVX), Casey's General Stores (CASY), Walmart (WMT), Verizon Communications (VZ), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), AT&T (T) and Walt Disney (DIS).

Xcel Energy's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Magellan Asset Management Ltd (5.92%), State Street Corp (5.42%), Franklin Resources Inc. (1.99%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.41%), Pictet Asset Management Ltd. (1.17%) and Boston Partners (0.86%). Company insiders that own Xcel Energy stock include Benjamin G S Fowke III, Christopher B Clark, David L Eves, Judy M Poferl, Kent T Larson, Lynn Casey, Mark E Stoering, Robert Frenzel, Scott M Wilensky and Timothy V Wolf. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Xcel Energy.

XEL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC, FMR LLC, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Bank of America Corp DE, Brookfield Public Securities Group LLC, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Victory Capital Management Inc. and Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V.. Company insiders that have sold Xcel Energy company stock in the last year include Benjamin G S Fowke III, Christopher B Clark, David L Eves, Judy M Poferl, Kent T Larson, Mark E Stoering, Robert Frenzel and Scott M Wilensky. View Insider Buying and Selling for Xcel Energy.

XEL stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Magellan Asset Management Ltd, State Street Corp, Ceredex Value Advisors LLC, Pictet Asset Management Ltd., UBS Group AG, Bank of Montreal Can, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and CWM LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Xcel Energy.

Shares of XEL can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of XEL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $70.26.

Xcel Energy has a market capitalization of $36.84 billion. View Additional Information About Xcel Energy.

The official website for Xcel Energy is http://www.xcelenergy.com/.

Xcel Energy's mailing address is 414 Nicollet Mall, MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55401-1927, United States. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at +1-612-3305500 or via email at [email protected]