Based on the aggregated intelligence of 130,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, electricity giant Duke Energy
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Duke Energy's business, and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Duke Energy facts
Headquarters (founded) |
Charlotte, N.C. (1916) |
Market Cap |
$18.30 billion |
Industry |
Electric Utilities |
Trailing-12-Months Revenue |
$12.93 billion |
Management |
CEO James Rogers CFO David Hauser |
Return on Equity (average, last three years) |
5.9% |
Dividend Yield |
6.5% |
Competitors |
Exelon
NRG Energy |
CAPS members bullish on DUK also bullish on: |
Johnson & Johnson
Altria |
CAPS members bearish on DUK also bearish on: |
General Motors
Best Buy |
Sources: Capital IQ (a division of Standard & Poor's), and Motley Fool CAPS.
Over on CAPS, 96% of the 1,657 members who have rated Duke believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include ursinho and ir4getful.
Last week, ursinho wrote that "as a dividend paying stock of a well managed regional utility with exposure to natural gas, as well as the burgeoning area of electrical grid (infrastructure) improvement, I find [Duke] a compelling value at these prices."
In a pitch from the next day, ir4getful expands on Duke as a relatively safe way to play with electricity:
This is just too good to pass up. It is about as safe a place as you can find to put some money, yielding a 7% dividend, while waiting for the market to recover. Since it didn't fall as much as the S&P over the past year, it likely won't "outperform" when the market returns, but it does have an easy 40% upside potential with just modest improvement in the market. It beats sitting in CDs or Bonds and missing a rebound altogether.
One of the strongest balance sheets among the utilities, good geographical diversification, positive regulatory relations, low-risk regulated operations.
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