Uncovering Duke Energy's Hidden Opportunities

By Susan Ramirez • Thursday, November 02 15:22 • Permanent Link

More and more people are talking about Duke Energy over the last few weeks. Is it worth buying the Utilities—Independent Power Producers stock at a price of $90.17? Only time will tell. The information below will give you a basic idea of what this investment may entail:

Duke Energy has moved -1.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 17.0%
DUK has an average analyst rating of buy and is -8.28% away from its mean target price of $98.31 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $4.67
Duke Energy has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 19.3 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $5.97 and its forward P/E ratio is 15.1
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 1.5 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Duke Energy is part of the Utilities sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 22.89 and an average P/B of 1.03
The company has a free cash flow of $-6046499840, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Duke Energy Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an energy company in the United States. It operates through two segments, Electric Utilities and Infrastructure (EU&I) and Gas Utilities and Infrastructure (GU&I). The EU&I segment generates, transmits, distributes, and sells electricity in the Carolinas, Florida, and the Midwest; and uses coal, hydroelectric, natural gas, oil, solar and wind sources, renewables, and nuclear fuel to generate electricity. This segment also engages in the wholesale of electricity to municipalities, electric cooperative utilities, and load-serving entities. The GU&I segment distributes natural gas to residential, commercial, industrial, and power generation natural gas customers; and invests in pipeline transmission projects, renewable natural gas projects, and natural gas storage facilities. The company was formerly known as Duke Energy Holding Corp. and changed its name to Duke Energy Corporation in April 2006. The company was founded in 1904 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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