NextEra Energy (NEE) Stock Price, News & Analysis

13 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for NextEra Energy in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 1 hold rating and 11 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" NEE shares.
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13 analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for NextEra Energy's shares. Their NEE share price targets range from $53.00 to $96.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $71.85 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 27.0% from the stock's current price.
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NextEra Energy's stock was trading at $60.74 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, NEE stock has decreased by 6.8% and is now trading at $56.58.
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NextEra Energy saw a decline in short interest during the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totaling 18,050,000 shares, a decline of 21.9% from the December 15th total of 23,120,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 13,190,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.4 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, April 23rd 2024.
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NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE:NEE) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, January, 25th. The utilities provider reported $0.52 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.49 by $0.03. The utilities provider earned $6.88 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $5.72 billion. NextEra Energy had a net margin of 26.00% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 11.73%. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $0.51 EPS.
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NextEra Energy announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, October 12th. Stockholders of record on Friday, November 24th will be paid a dividend of $0.4675 per share on Friday, December 15th. This represents a $1.87 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.31%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, November 22nd.
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NextEra Energy (NYSE:NEE) pays an annual dividend of $1.87 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.31%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 29 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 51.80%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, NEE will have a dividend payout ratio of 51.09% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of NextEra Energy (NYSE:NEE) stock in their portfolio include Virtus Reaves Utilities ETF (UTES), Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLU), Vanguard Utilities ETF (VPU), Fidelity MSCI Utilities Index ETF (FUTY), iShares U.S. Utilities ETF (IDU), Direxion Daily Utilities Bull 3X Shares (UTSL), TrueShares Eagle Global Renewable Energy Income ETF (RNWZ) and iShares Global Utilities ETF (JXI).

NextEra Energy's stock split on Tuesday, October 27th 2020. The 4-1 split was announced on Monday, September 14th 2020. The newly created shares were issued to shareholders after the closing bell on Monday, October 26th 2020. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 400 shares after the split.

NextEra Energy updated its FY 2026 earnings guidance on Friday, January, 26th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 3.630-4.000 for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of -.

268 employees have rated NextEra Energy Chief Executive Officer James L. Robo on Glassdoor.com. James L. Robo has an approval rating of 87% among the company's employees.

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NextEra Energy's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Norges Bank (2.06%), Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (0.53%), California Public Employees Retirement System (0.39%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (0.37%), Swiss National Bank (0.31%) and Principal Financial Group Inc. (0.29%). Insiders that own company stock include Amy B Lane, Armando Pimentel Jr, Charles E Sieving, Deborah H Caplan, Eric E Silagy, James L Robo, James L Robo, James Lawrence Camaren, James Michael May, John W Ketchum, Kirk S Hachigian, Miguel Arechabala, Naren K Gursahaney, Nextera Energy Inc, Nicole S Arnaboldi, Rebecca J Kujawa, Robert Coffey, Ronald R Reagan and Terrell Kirk Crews II.
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