NextEra Energy (NYSE:NEE) Issues FY 2026 Earnings Guidance

NextEra Energy (NYSE:NEE) issued an update on its FY 2026 earnings guidance on Tuesday morning. The company provided EPS guidance of 3.630-4.000 for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of -. NextEra Energy also updated its FY 2024 guidance to 3.230-3.430 EPS.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of brokerages have weighed in on NEE. StockNews.com raised shares of NextEra Energy from a sell rating to a hold rating in a report on Monday. Morgan Stanley increased their price objective on shares of NextEra Energy from $77.00 to $79.00 and gave the company an overweight rating in a research note on Monday. Royal Bank of Canada reissued an outperform rating and issued a $74.00 target price on shares of NextEra Energy in a report on Tuesday, January 30th. Wells Fargo & Company boosted their price target on NextEra Energy from $84.00 to $85.00 and gave the company an overweight rating in a research note on Tuesday, March 19th. Finally, Guggenheim lifted their price objective on NextEra Energy from $70.00 to $80.00 and gave the company a buy rating in a report on Monday, January 22nd. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, four have issued a hold rating and eleven have given a buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of Moderate Buy and a consensus price target of $71.50.

NextEra Energy Stock Performance

Shares of NEE stock traded down $0.53 on Friday, reaching $66.37. The stock had a trading volume of 994,534 shares, compared to its average volume of 11,796,649. NextEra Energy has a 12 month low of $47.15 and a 12 month high of $78.53. The firm has a market capitalization of $136.36 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 18.23, a P/E/G ratio of 2.45 and a beta of 0.51. The firm’s 50-day moving average is $60.67 and its two-hundred day moving average is $58.94. The company has a quick ratio of 0.47, a current ratio of 0.51 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.12.

NextEra Energy (NYSE:NEE) last released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, April 23rd. The utilities provider reported $0.91 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.80 by $0.11. The business had revenue of $5.73 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $6.28 billion. NextEra Energy had a return on equity of 11.72% and a net margin of 27.62%. The firm’s quarterly revenue was down 14.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.84 EPS. On average, research analysts expect that NextEra Energy will post 3.4 EPS for the current fiscal year.

NextEra Energy Increases Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, March 15th. Investors of record on Tuesday, February 27th were paid a $0.515 dividend. This represents a $2.06 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.10%. This is a boost from NextEra Energy’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.47. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Monday, February 26th. NextEra Energy’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 56.13%.

About NextEra Energy

NextEra Energy, Inc, through its subsidiaries, generates, transmits, distributes, and sells electric power to retail and wholesale customers in North America. The company generates electricity through wind, solar, nuclear,natural gas, and other clean energy. It also develops, constructs, and operates long-term contracted assets that consists of clean energy solutions, such as renewable generation facilities, battery storage projects, and electric transmission facilities; sells energy commodities; and owns, develops, constructs, manages and operates electric generation facilities in wholesale energy markets.