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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	$62.53 +0.7%	$61.39	$45.51 ▼ $68.30	$30.27B	0.7	161,854 shs	107,251 shs
FTS Fortis	$44.57 +0.4%	$43.06	$36.86 ▼ $46.06	$22.25B	0.48	566,548 shs	457,749 shs
WTRG Essential Utilities	$38.54 -2.8%	$36.05	$33.18 ▼ $41.78	$10.59B	0.79	1.60 million shs	1.27 million shs
XEL Xcel Energy	$68.85 +0.2%	$67.65	$50.76 ▼ $73.38	$39.56B	0.37	3.72 million shs	3.36 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
CQP Cheniere Energy Partners	+0.60%	-1.71%	-2.27%	+7.32%	+6,252,499,900.00%
FTS Fortis	+0.34%	+0.46%	+1.86%	+5.33%	+12.14%
WTRG Essential Utilities	-2.97%	+0.05%	+10.37%	-1.39%	+7.58%
XEL Xcel Energy	+0.17%	+0.17%	+2.95%	+0.53%	+32.66%

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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
CQP Cheniere Energy Partners	0.9361 of 5 stars	0.5	2.0	3.3	0.0	2.0	0.8	1.3
FTS Fortis	2.8643 of 5 stars	0.0	3.0	3.3	3.7	2.4	0.8	1.3
WTRG Essential Utilities	4.5681 of 5 stars	2.4	3.0	4.2	3.1	3.5	1.7	1.9
XEL Xcel Energy	3.3051 of 5 stars	1.4	3.0	4.2	0.0	3.0	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	$51.50	-17.63% Downside
FTS Fortis	1.50	Reduce	N/A	N/A
WTRG Essential Utilities	2.83	Moderate Buy	$43.50	12.88% Upside
XEL Xcel Energy	2.80	Moderate Buy	$71.10	3.27% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest WTRG, XEL, CQP, and FTS Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
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
2/27/2025	WTRG Essential Utilities	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$39.00 ➝ $41.00
2/21/2025	CQP Cheniere Energy Partners	Stifel Nicolaus Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Hold ➝ Sell	$50.00 ➝ $51.00
2/13/2025	FTS Fortis	Jefferies Financial Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Hold
2/7/2025	XEL Xcel Energy	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$72.00 ➝ $75.00
1/28/2025	WTRG Essential Utilities	Jefferies Financial Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Hold ➝ Buy	$41.00 ➝ $41.00
1/22/2025	XEL Xcel Energy	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$71.00 ➝ $69.00
1/16/2025	CQP Cheniere Energy Partners	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Underweight ➝ Underweight	$46.00 ➝ $54.00
1/14/2025	WTRG Essential Utilities	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$45.00 ➝ $42.00
1/13/2025	XEL Xcel Energy	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Equal Weight ➝ Overweight	$70.00 ➝ $72.00
1/7/2025	WTRG Essential Utilities	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Overweight ➝ Equal Weight	$43.00 ➝ $39.00

(Data available from 3/13/2022 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	3.48	$5.75 per share	10.87	($1.59) per share	-39.32
FTS Fortis	$11.51B	1.93	$5.29 per share	8.43	$35.42 per share	1.26
WTRG Essential Utilities	$2.09B	5.08	$3.30 per share	11.67	$21.58 per share	1.79
XEL Xcel Energy	$13.44B	2.94	$8.15 per share	8.45	$31.92 per share	2.16

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	14.68	15.07	N/A	28.84%	-325.95%	13.71%	N/A
FTS Fortis	$1.17B	$2.36	18.88	18.04	3.94	14.12%	7.09%	2.34%	4/29/2025 (Estimated)
WTRG Essential Utilities	$498.23M	$2.17	19.27	18.09	2.57	27.84%	7.89%	2.79%	5/1/2025 (Estimated)
XEL Xcel Energy	$1.94B	$3.44	20.01	16.63	2.62	14.40%	10.65%	2.90%	4/24/2025 (Estimated)

Latest WTRG, XEL, CQP, and FTS Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
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
2/14/2025	Q4 2024	FTS Fortis	$0.57	$0.59	+$0.02	$0.56	$2.08 billion	$2.11 billion
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	4.96%	N/A	72.77%	N/A
FTS Fortis	$1.70	3.81%	+5.17%	72.03%	N/A
WTRG Essential Utilities	$1.30	3.37%	+6.83%	59.91%	32 Years
XEL Xcel Energy	$2.28	3.31%	+6.17%	66.28%	22 Years

Latest WTRG, XEL, CQP, and FTS 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
2/14/2025	FTS Fortis	quarterly	$0.4324	3.8%	5/16/2025	5/16/2025	6/1/2025
2/26/2025	XEL Xcel Energy	quarterly	$0.57	3.26%	3/14/2025	3/14/2025	4/20/2025
1/29/2025	CQP Cheniere Energy Partners	quarterly	$0.7750	5%	2/10/2025	2/10/2025	2/14/2025
12/18/2024	XEL Xcel Energy	quarterly	$0.5475	3.3%	1/6/2025	1/6/2025	1/29/2025

(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
FTS Fortis	1.30	0.63	0.63
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%
FTS Fortis	57.77%
WTRG Essential Utilities	74.78%
XEL Xcel Energy	78.38%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
CQP Cheniere Energy Partners	N/A
FTS Fortis	N/A
WTRG Essential Utilities	0.21%
XEL Xcel Energy	0.09%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
CQP Cheniere Energy Partners	1,605	484.05 million	N/A	N/A
FTS Fortis	9,600	499.31 million	N/A	Optionable
WTRG Essential Utilities	3,258	274.92 million	274.03 million	Optionable
XEL Xcel Energy	11,311	574.55 million	573.73 million	Optionable

WTRG, XEL, CQP, and FTS Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

Xcel Energy to cut power in NM and Texas Panhandle due to wildfire risk

March 12 at 9:36 PM | msn.com

Xcel Energy to deliver $318 million to Minnesota customers, including first-of-its-kind nuclear tax credit

March 12 at 9:36 PM | electricenergyonline.com

Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors LP Acquires 10,096 Shares of Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

March 12 at 7:12 AM | marketbeat.com

Warwick Investment Management Inc. Purchases Shares of 4,785 Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

March 12 at 6:38 AM | marketbeat.com

Wealth High Governance Capital Ltda Purchases New Position in Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

March 12 at 6:22 AM | marketbeat.com

Daiwa Securities Group Inc. Grows Stock Position in Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

March 12 at 4:55 AM | marketbeat.com

Xcel Energy: Power shutoff possible Friday due to fire risk

March 12 at 12:48 AM | msn.com

You’ll Have Permission To Party At Xcel Energy Center This Fall

March 11 at 7:46 PM | wjon.com

Xcel Energy readies for power outages during peak fire risk Friday

March 11 at 7:46 PM | msn.com

AlphaQuest LLC Boosts Position in Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

March 11 at 4:38 AM | marketbeat.com

Hear 24 #1 Songs When Country Legend Comes To Xcel Energy Center

March 10 at 4:32 PM | wjon.com

Country star Keith Urban to return to Xcel Energy Center in September

March 10 at 4:32 PM | yahoo.com

Sound View Wealth Advisors Group LLC Buys 11,745 Shares of Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

March 10 at 5:35 AM | marketbeat.com

Machina Capital S.A.S. Sells 20,396 Shares of Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

March 10 at 4:41 AM | marketbeat.com

Mesirow Financial Investment Management Inc. Decreases Stock Position in Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

March 10 at 4:41 AM | marketbeat.com

Raymond James Financial Inc. Makes New $83.65 Million Investment in Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

March 10 at 4:14 AM | marketbeat.com

Q2 EPS Estimates for Xcel Energy Increased by Zacks Research

March 10 at 2:19 AM | marketbeat.com

IIHF Announces Groups For 2026 Tournament At Xcel Energy Center

March 9, 2025 | wjon.com

Larson Financial Group LLC Buys 56,864 Shares of Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

March 9, 2025 | marketbeat.com

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March 9, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Jones Financial Companies Lllp Grows Holdings in Xcel Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:XEL)

March 9, 2025 | marketbeat.com

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WTRG, XEL, CQP, and FTS Company Descriptions

Cheniere Energy Partners NYSE:CQP

$62.52 +0.46 (+0.73%)

Closing price 03/12/2025 03:58 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$62.42 -0.11 (-0.18%)

As of 03/12/2025 04:58 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.

Fortis NYSE:FTS

$44.57 +0.19 (+0.42%)

Closing price 03/12/2025 03:58 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$44.52 -0.04 (-0.09%)

As of 03/12/2025 05:47 PM Eastern

Fortis Inc. operates as an electric and gas utility company in Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean countries. It generates, transmits, and distributes electricity to approximately 447,000 retail customers in southeastern Arizona; and 103,000 retail customers in Arizona's Mohave and Santa Cruz counties with an aggregate capacity of 3,408 megawatts (MW), including 68 MW of solar capacity and 250 MV of wind capacity. The company also sells wholesale electricity to other entities in the western United States; owns gas-fired and hydroelectric generating capacity totaling 65 MW; and distributes natural gas to approximately 1,087,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers in British Columbia, Canada. In addition, it owns and operates the electricity distribution system that serves approximately 592,000 customers in southern and central Alberta; owns four hydroelectric generating facilities with a combined capacity of 225 MW; and provides operation, maintenance, and management services to five hydroelectric generating facilities. Further, the company distributes electricity in the island portion of Newfoundland and Labrador with an installed generating capacity of 145 MW; and on Prince Edward Island with a generating capacity of 90 MW. Additionally, it provides integrated electric utility service to approximately 69,000 customers in Ontario; approximately 275,000 customers in Newfoundland and Labrador; approximately 34,000 customers on Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands; and approximately 17,000 customers on certain islands in Turks and Caicos. It also holds long-term contracted generation assets in Belize consisting of 3 hydroelectric generating facilities with a combined capacity of 51 MW; and the Aitken Creek natural gas storage facility. It also owns and operates approximately 90,500 circuit Kilometers (km) of distribution lines; and approximately 51,600 km of natural gas pipelines. Fortis Inc. was founded in 1885 and is headquartered in St. John's, Canada.

Essential Utilities NYSE:WTRG

$38.53 -1.12 (-2.81%)

Closing price 03/12/2025 03:58 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$38.58 +0.04 (+0.10%)

As of 03/12/2025 06:36 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

$68.85 +0.12 (+0.17%)

Closing price 03/12/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$67.83 -1.02 (-1.49%)

As of 03/12/2025 07:42 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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