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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
CQP Cheniere Energy Partners	$60.03 -0.6%	$62.08	$46.71 ▼ $68.42	$29.06B	0.57	166,081 shs	30,559 shs
EXC Exelon	$46.62 +0.3%	$44.80	$34.01 ▼ $48.11	$47.11B	0.39	7.25 million shs	2.06 million shs
WTRG Essential Utilities	$40.71 +1.1%	$39.02	$33.18 ▼ $41.78	$11.21B	0.8	1.46 million shs	443,174 shs
XEL Xcel Energy	$70.39 +1.2%	$69.59	$51.97 ▼ $73.38	$40.54B	0.39	3.58 million shs	928,816 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
CQP Cheniere Energy Partners	+0.40%	+2.86%	-5.64%	-2.66%	+6,004,999,900.00%
EXC Exelon	+0.56%	+0.54%	+3.96%	+16.75%	+24.54%
WTRG Essential Utilities	+0.35%	+0.15%	+2.48%	+12.87%	+11.58%
XEL Xcel Energy	+0.84%	+0.88%	-0.20%	+4.74%	+28.95%

Compare MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
CQP Cheniere Energy Partners	2.0436 of 5 stars	0.5	4.0	3.3	0.0	3.6	0.8	1.9
EXC Exelon	4.2256 of 5 stars	2.2	3.0	2.5	3.3	3.5	2.5	1.3
WTRG Essential Utilities	4.4739 of 5 stars	1.4	5.0	4.2	3.1	3.9	1.7	1.9
XEL Xcel Energy	4.2264 of 5 stars	2.4	4.0	4.2	0.0	3.9	3.3	1.9

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
CQP Cheniere Energy Partners	1.00	Strong Sell	$53.60	-10.71% Downside
EXC Exelon	2.44	Hold	$46.67	0.11% Upside
WTRG Essential Utilities	2.83	Moderate Buy	$43.50	6.85% Upside
XEL Xcel Energy	2.80	Moderate Buy	$76.00	7.97% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest WTRG, XEL, EXC, and CQP Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
4/29/2025	CQP Cheniere Energy Partners	Bank of America Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Underperform ➝ Underperform	$49.00 ➝ $50.00
4/28/2025	CQP Cheniere Energy Partners	JPMorgan Chase & Co. Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Underweight ➝ Underweight	$56.00 ➝ $58.00
4/28/2025	EXC Exelon	BMO Capital Markets Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$46.00 ➝ $50.00
4/28/2025	XEL Xcel Energy	Evercore ISI Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$74.00 ➝ $77.00
4/25/2025	XEL Xcel Energy	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Set Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$78.00
4/23/2025	XEL Xcel Energy	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Set Price Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$79.00
4/23/2025	XEL Xcel Energy	BMO Capital Markets Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Market Perform ➝ Market Perform	$69.00 ➝ $73.00
4/22/2025	EXC Exelon	Guggenheim Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Set Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$47.00
4/22/2025	XEL Xcel Energy	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$72.00 ➝ $73.00
4/15/2025	EXC Exelon	Evercore ISI Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Outperform ➝ In-Line	$46.00 ➝ $48.00
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

(Data available from 4/29/2022 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
CQP Cheniere Energy Partners	$8.70B	3.34	$5.52 per share	10.87	($1.59) per share	-37.75
EXC Exelon	$23.03B	2.04	$6.56 per share	7.11	$26.78 per share	1.74
WTRG Essential Utilities	$2.09B	5.38	$3.49 per share	11.67	$21.58 per share	1.89
XEL Xcel Energy	$13.44B	3.02	$8.33 per share	8.45	$31.92 per share	2.21

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
CQP Cheniere Energy Partners	$4.25B	$4.26	14.09	14.47	N/A	28.84%	-325.95%	13.71%	N/A
EXC Exelon	$2.46B	$2.45	19.05	16.77	2.86	10.68%	9.52%	2.38%	5/1/2025 (Estimated)
WTRG Essential Utilities	$498.23M	$2.17	20.35	19.11	2.57	27.84%	7.89%	2.79%	5/1/2025 (Estimated)
XEL Xcel Energy	$1.94B	$3.40	20.46	17.00	2.62	14.40%	10.65%	2.90%	N/A

Latest WTRG, XEL, EXC, and CQP Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
5/12/2025	Q1 2025	WTRG Essential Utilities	$0.80	N/A	N/A	N/A	$713.80 million	N/A
5/1/2025	Q1 2025	EXC Exelon	$0.71	N/A	N/A	N/A	$6.30 billion	N/A
4/24/2025	Q1 2025	XEL Xcel Energy	$0.95	$0.84	-$0.11	$0.84	$3.93 billion	$3.91 billion
2/26/2025	Q4 2024	WTRG Essential Utilities	$0.66	$0.67	+$0.01	$0.67	$698.77 million	$604.38 million
2/20/2025	Q4 2024	CQP Cheniere Energy Partners	$1.07	$1.05	-$0.02	$1.05	$2.37 billion	$2.46 billion
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
CQP Cheniere Energy Partners	$3.10	5.16%	N/A	72.77%	N/A
EXC Exelon	$1.60	3.43%	-0.22%	65.31%	N/A
WTRG Essential Utilities	$1.30	3.19%	+6.83%	59.91%	32 Years
XEL Xcel Energy	$2.28	3.24%	+6.17%	67.06%	22 Years

Latest WTRG, XEL, EXC, and CQP 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
2/12/2025	EXC Exelon	quarterly	$0.40	3.7%	2/24/2025	2/24/2025	3/14/2025
1/29/2025	CQP Cheniere Energy Partners	quarterly	$0.7750	5%	2/10/2025	2/10/2025	2/14/2025

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
CQP Cheniere Energy Partners	N/A	0.69	0.61
EXC Exelon	1.61	0.87	0.78
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
CQP Cheniere Energy Partners	46.55%
EXC Exelon	80.92%
WTRG Essential Utilities	74.78%
XEL Xcel Energy	78.38%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
CQP Cheniere Energy Partners	N/A
EXC Exelon	0.10%
WTRG Essential Utilities	0.21%
XEL Xcel Energy	0.09%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
CQP Cheniere Energy Partners	1,550	484.05 million	N/A	N/A
EXC Exelon	19,100	1.01 billion	1.00 billion	Optionable
WTRG Essential Utilities	3,210	275.52 million	274.03 million	Optionable
XEL Xcel Energy	12,000	576.01 million	573.73 million	Optionable

WTRG, XEL, EXC, and CQP Headlines

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Berger Financial Group Inc Buys 11,415 Shares of Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

April 29 at 6:44 AM | marketbeat.com

Johnson Financial Group Inc. Takes $1.06 Million Position in Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

April 29 at 6:25 AM | marketbeat.com

Boothbay Fund Management LLC Buys 15,912 Shares of Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

April 29 at 6:24 AM | marketbeat.com

Integrated Wealth Concepts LLC Acquires 28,851 Shares of Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

April 29 at 5:40 AM | marketbeat.com

Xcel Energy: Unique Positioning Among Close Peers

April 29 at 3:05 AM | seekingalpha.com

Xcel Energy: Big Plans But At A Premium And Uncertainty Looms

April 28 at 8:00 AM | seekingalpha.com

268,308 Shares in Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL) Bought by Susquehanna Fundamental Investments LLC

April 28 at 6:45 AM | marketbeat.com

Nebula Research & Development LLC Has $1.74 Million Position in Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

April 28 at 6:09 AM | marketbeat.com

Dimensional Fund Advisors LP Purchases 80,744 Shares of Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

April 28 at 4:28 AM | marketbeat.com

Marshall Wace LLP Raises Stock Position in Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

April 28 at 4:11 AM | marketbeat.com

Xcel Energy (NASDAQ:XEL) Rating Increased to Hold at StockNews.com

April 28 at 2:08 AM | marketbeat.com

Xcel Energy (NASDAQ:XEL) Upgraded by StockNews.com to "Hold" Rating

April 28 at 1:29 AM | americanbankingnews.com

Adage Capital Partners GP L.L.C. Grows Position in Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

April 27 at 5:59 AM | marketbeat.com

Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL) Shares Sold by IHT Wealth Management LLC

April 27 at 5:28 AM | marketbeat.com

Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL) Position Lessened by Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD

April 26 at 5:52 AM | marketbeat.com

Hsbc Holdings PLC Purchases 82,790 Shares of Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

April 26 at 5:51 AM | marketbeat.com

BMO Capital Markets Issues Positive Forecast for Xcel Energy (NASDAQ:XEL) Stock Price

April 26 at 3:01 AM | americanbankingnews.com

Denver and Boulder agree to Xcel Energy’s roughly $1.9 billion plan to avoid sparking wildfires

April 26 at 1:11 AM | cpr.org

Wells Fargo Reaffirms Their Buy Rating on Xcel Energy (XEL)

April 26 at 1:11 AM | markets.businessinsider.com

Stifel Financial Corp Has $84.70 Million Stock Position in Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

April 25, 2025 | marketbeat.com

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April 25, 2025 | marketbeat.com

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WTRG, XEL, EXC, and CQP Company Descriptions

Cheniere Energy Partners NYSE:CQP

$60.03 -0.38 (-0.63%)

As of 02:28 PM Eastern

Cheniere Energy Partners, L.P., through its subsidiaries, provides liquefied natural gas (LNG) to integrated energy companies, utilities, and energy trading companies worldwide. The company owns and operates natural gas liquefaction and export facility at the Sabine Pass LNG Terminal located in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. It also owns a natural gas supply pipeline that interconnects the Sabine Pass LNG terminal with various interstate pipelines. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Cheniere Energy Partners, L.P. is a subsidiary of Cheniere Energy, Inc.

Exelon NASDAQ:EXC

$46.62 +0.14 (+0.29%)

As of 02:29 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.

Essential Utilities NYSE:WTRG

$40.71 +0.43 (+1.07%)

As of 02:29 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

$70.39 +0.81 (+1.16%)

As of 02:28 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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