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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
EXC Exelon	$45.98 -2.6%	$43.05	$34.01 ▼ $48.20	$46.45B	0.39	6.89 million shs	6.34 million shs
VST Vistra	$96.36 -11.0%	$142.18	$64.26 ▼ $199.84	$32.93B	1.21	7.77 million shs	9.90 million shs
WTRG Essential Utilities	$39.69 -2.3%	$37.44	$33.18 ▼ $41.98	$10.97B	0.8	1.46 million shs	2.20 million shs
XEL Xcel Energy	$69.51 -3.6%	$68.93	$51.97 ▼ $74.31	$40.09B	0.37	3.56 million shs	2.27 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
EXC Exelon	+2.74%	+6.73%	+8.13%	+24.13%	+26.93%
VST Vistra	-15.19%	-9.58%	-14.95%	-33.53%	+46.31%
WTRG Essential Utilities	+3.14%	+5.26%	+4.59%	+12.41%	+12.82%
XEL Xcel Energy	+1.75%	+4.07%	+3.01%	+8.17%	+33.37%

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Compare MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
EXC Exelon	4.1154 of 5 stars	2.3	3.0	2.5	3.3	2.9	2.5	1.3
VST Vistra	4.0508 of 5 stars	4.4	3.0	1.7	0.0	3.3	3.3	0.6
WTRG Essential Utilities	4.0834 of 5 stars	1.4	3.0	4.2	3.1	3.5	1.7	1.9
XEL Xcel Energy	3.252 of 5 stars	1.4	3.0	4.2	0.0	3.5	3.3	1.9

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
EXC Exelon	2.56	Moderate Buy	$45.13	-1.87% Downside
VST Vistra	2.79	Moderate Buy	$161.23	67.33% Upside
WTRG Essential Utilities	2.83	Moderate Buy	$43.50	9.60% Upside
XEL Xcel Energy	2.80	Moderate Buy	$73.00	5.02% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest WTRG, EXC, XEL, and VST Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
4/4/2025	VST Vistra	The Goldman Sachs Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Neutral	$134.00
4/1/2025	XEL Xcel Energy	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$73.00 ➝ $77.00
3/31/2025	XEL Xcel Energy	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$69.00 ➝ $72.00
3/28/2025	VST Vistra	JPMorgan Chase & Co. Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$203.00 ➝ $186.00
3/21/2025	EXC Exelon	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$45.00 ➝ $47.00
3/21/2025	XEL Xcel Energy	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$70.00 ➝ $73.00
3/20/2025	EXC Exelon	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$46.00 ➝ $48.00
3/20/2025	XEL Xcel Energy	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$75.00 ➝ $78.00
3/5/2025	VST Vistra	Daiwa America Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Hold
3/5/2025	VST Vistra	Daiwa Capital Markets Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Neutral	$120.00
3/5/2025	WTRG Essential Utilities	Evercore ISI Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$45.00 ➝ $46.00

(Data available from 4/4/2022 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
EXC Exelon	$23.03B	2.02	$6.47 per share	7.11	$26.78 per share	1.72
VST Vistra	$17.22B	1.90	$5.70 per share	16.89	$7.96 per share	12.11
WTRG Essential Utilities	$2.09B	5.24	$3.40 per share	11.67	$21.58 per share	1.84
XEL Xcel Energy	$13.44B	2.97	$8.23 per share	8.45	$31.92 per share	2.18

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
EXC Exelon	$2.46B	$2.45	18.78	16.54	2.86	10.68%	9.52%	2.38%	5/1/2025 (Estimated)
VST Vistra	$1.49B	$7.05	18.06	15.25	1.12	12.51%	57.63%	6.02%	5/8/2025 (Estimated)
WTRG Essential Utilities	$498.23M	$2.17	19.90	18.63	2.57	27.84%	7.89%	2.79%	5/1/2025 (Estimated)
XEL Xcel Energy	$1.94B	$3.44	20.28	16.79	2.62	14.40%	10.65%	2.90%	4/24/2025 (Estimated)

Latest WTRG, EXC, XEL, and VST Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
5/1/2025	N/A	EXC Exelon	$0.71	N/A	N/A	N/A	$6.30 billion	N/A
5/1/2025	N/A	WTRG Essential Utilities	$0.80	N/A	N/A	N/A	$713.80 million	N/A
4/24/2025	N/A	XEL Xcel Energy	$0.95	N/A	N/A	N/A	$3.93 billion	N/A
2/26/2025	Q4 2024	WTRG Essential Utilities	$0.66	$0.67	+$0.01	$0.67	$698.77 million	$604.38 million
2/12/2025	Q4 2024	EXC Exelon	$0.59	$0.64	+$0.05	$0.64	$5.44 billion	N/A
2/6/2025	Q4 2024	XEL Xcel Energy	$0.87	$0.81	-$0.06	$0.81	$3.77 billion	N/A

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
EXC Exelon	$1.60	3.48%	-0.22%	65.31%	N/A
VST Vistra	$0.89	0.92%	+13.34%	12.62%	N/A
WTRG Essential Utilities	$1.30	3.28%	+6.83%	59.91%	32 Years
XEL Xcel Energy	$2.28	3.28%	+6.17%	66.28%	22 Years

Latest WTRG, EXC, XEL, and VST Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
2/20/2025	WTRG Essential Utilities	quarterly	$0.3255	3.6%	5/13/2025	5/13/2025	6/2/2025
2/26/2025	XEL Xcel Energy	quarterly	$0.57	3.26%	3/14/2025	3/14/2025	4/20/2025
2/21/2025	VST Vistra	quarterly	$0.2235	0.59%	3/20/2025	3/20/2025	3/31/2025
2/12/2025	EXC Exelon	quarterly	$0.40	3.7%	2/24/2025	2/24/2025	3/14/2025

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
EXC Exelon	1.61	0.87	0.78
VST Vistra	4.68	1.11	0.99
WTRG Essential Utilities	1.17	0.55	0.39
XEL Xcel Energy	1.42	0.93	0.82

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
EXC Exelon	80.92%
VST Vistra	90.88%
WTRG Essential Utilities	74.78%
XEL Xcel Energy	78.38%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
EXC Exelon	0.10%
VST Vistra	1.42%
WTRG Essential Utilities	0.21%
XEL Xcel Energy	0.09%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
EXC Exelon	19,100	1.01 billion	1.00 billion	Optionable
VST Vistra	4,910	340.16 million	335.40 million	Optionable
WTRG Essential Utilities	3,210	275.52 million	274.03 million	Optionable
XEL Xcel Energy	12,000	574.55 million	573.73 million	Optionable

WTRG, EXC, XEL, and VST Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

Institutional investors are Xcel Energy Inc.'s (NASDAQ:XEL) biggest bettors and were rewarded after last week's US$1.6b market cap gain

April 4 at 11:33 AM | finance.yahoo.com

Trexquant Investment LP Sells 158,525 Shares of Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

April 4 at 5:21 AM | marketbeat.com

Geode Capital Management LLC Buys 616,853 Shares of Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

April 4 at 5:06 AM | marketbeat.com

Xcel Energy and High Country Conservation Center to host free sustainability workshop

April 3 at 8:30 PM | summitdaily.com

Xcel Energy First Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call

April 3 at 5:01 PM | businesswire.com

Xcel Energy proposes 2-year rate increases

April 3 at 9:18 AM | wqow.com

Xcel Energy to Refund Customers $48 Million After 2011 Plant Failure

April 3 at 9:18 AM | knsiradio.com

Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA Has $1.19 Billion Position in Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

April 3 at 6:34 AM | marketbeat.com

National Bank of Canada FI Grows Stock Position in Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

April 3 at 5:36 AM | marketbeat.com

O Shaughnessy Asset Management LLC Acquires 33,891 Shares of Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

April 3 at 5:03 AM | marketbeat.com

Xcel Energy price target raised to $77 from $73 at UBS

April 2 at 11:39 AM | markets.businessinsider.com

Xcel Energy (NASDAQ:XEL) Given New $77.00 Price Target at UBS Group

April 2 at 11:04 AM | marketbeat.com

Headlands Technologies LLC Has $5.35 Million Stock Position in Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

April 2 at 6:36 AM | marketbeat.com

Nicollet Investment Management Inc. Purchases 4,051 Shares of Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

April 2 at 6:12 AM | marketbeat.com

Franklin Resources Inc. Buys 551,470 Shares of Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

April 2 at 5:50 AM | marketbeat.com

Meeder Asset Management Inc. Sells 26,597 Shares of Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

April 2 at 5:32 AM | marketbeat.com

Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL) Shares Sold by Teacher Retirement System of Texas

April 2 at 3:33 AM | marketbeat.com

Xcel Energy (NASDAQ:XEL) Stock Price Expected to Rise, Barclays Analyst Says

April 1 at 11:11 AM | marketbeat.com

California Public Employees Retirement System Sells 149,790 Shares of Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

April 1 at 5:25 AM | marketbeat.com

Allstate Corp Invests $1.13 Million in Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

April 1 at 4:58 AM | marketbeat.com

Nomura Asset Management Co. Ltd. Raises Stake in Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

April 1 at 4:31 AM | marketbeat.com

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WTRG, EXC, XEL, and VST Company Descriptions

Exelon NASDAQ:EXC

$45.98 -1.25 (-2.64%)

As of 12:46 PM Eastern

Exelon Corporation, a utility services holding company, engages in the energy distribution and transmission businesses in the United States and Canada. The company is involved in the purchase and regulated retail sale of electricity and natural gas, transmission and distribution of electricity, and distribution of natural gas to retail customers. It also offers support services, including legal, human resources, information technology, supply management, financial, engineering, customer operations, transmission and distribution planning, asset management, system operations, and power procurement services. It serves distribution utilities, municipalities, and financial institutions, as well as commercial, industrial, governmental, and residential customers. Exelon Corporation was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Vistra NYSE:VST

$96.36 -11.85 (-10.95%)

As of 12:46 PM Eastern

Vistra Corp., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated retail electricity and power generation company. The company operates through six segments: Retail, Texas, East, West, Sunset, and Asset Closure. It retails electricity and natural gas to residential, commercial, and industrial customers across states in the United States and the District of Columbia. In addition, the company is involved in the electricity generation, wholesale energy purchases and sales, commodity risk management, fuel production, and fuel logistics management activities. It serves approximately 4 million customers with a generation capacity of approximately 37,000 megawatts with a portfolio of natural gas, nuclear, coal, solar, and battery energy storage facilities. The company was formerly known as Vistra Energy Corp. and changed its name to Vistra Corp. in July 2020. Vistra Corp. was founded in 1882 and is based in Irving, Texas.

Essential Utilities NYSE:WTRG

$39.69 -0.95 (-2.34%)

As of 12:45 PM Eastern

Essential Utilities, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates regulated utilities that provide water, wastewater, or natural gas services in the United States. The company operates through Regulated Water and Regulated Natural Gas segments. It offers water services through operating and maintenance contract with municipal authorities and other parties. In addition, the company provides utility service line protection solutions and repair services to households. It serves approximately 5.5 million residential water, commercial water, fire protection, industrial water, wastewater, and other water and utility customers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, Illinois, North Carolina, New Jersey, Indiana, Virginia, and Kentucky under the Aqua and Peoples brands. The company was formerly known as Aqua America, Inc. and changed its name to Essential Utilities, Inc. in February 2020. Essential Utilities, Inc. was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

Xcel Energy NASDAQ:XEL

$69.51 -2.63 (-3.65%)

As of 12:46 PM Eastern

Xcel Energy Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the generation, purchasing, transmission, distribution, and sale of electricity. It operates through Regulated Electric Utility, Regulated Natural Gas Utility, and All Other segments. The company generates electricity through wind, nuclear, hydroelectric, biomass, and solar energy sources, as well as coal, natural gas, oil, wood, and refuse-derived fuels. It also purchases, transports, distributes, and sells natural gas to retail customers, as well as transports customer-owned natural gas. In addition, the company develops and leases natural gas pipelines, and storage and compression facilities; and invests in rental housing projects and nonregulated assets, as well as procures equipment for the construction of renewable generation facilities. It serves residential, commercial, and industrial customers in the portions of Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, and Wisconsin. The company was incorporated in 1909 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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