An Important Check-Up On Public Service Enterprise Group Inc (NYSE: PEG)

Public Service Enterprise Group Inc (PEG) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $83.13, with 3.72 million shares of worth about $309.17 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -1.93% during that period and on Wednesday the price saw a gain of about 1.17%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 498.00M shares, out of which, 497.82M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of 4.47% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -2.13%. Year-to-date (YTD), PEG shares are showing a performance of -1.61% which increased to 30.34% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $63.54 but also hit the highest price of $95.22 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Public Service Enterprise Group Inc shares is 2.67 million. The stock is currently trading 2.09% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -0.50% for SMA50 and it goes to 0.19% higher than SMA200.

Public Service Enterprise Group Inc (NYSE: PEG) currently have 498.00M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 75.94% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $41.45B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.54. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 23.46, while it has posted earnings per share of $3.54 in the same period. Its PEG reads 2.94 and has Quick Ratio of 0.48 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.42. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for PEG, volatility over the week remained 1.94% while standing at 2.59% over the month.

Analysts are in expectations that Public Service Enterprise Group Inc (PEG) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 1.42 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 0.76 and it is 4.35 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 1.3 which is 1.57 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of 1.31 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 9.07% while it is estimated to increase by 8.73% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 7.97% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 1.20% made by the stock over the past 5-years.

Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Ladenburg Thalmann on March 19, 2025 offering a Neutral rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $82.50 to it. Coverage by Barclays stated Public Service Enterprise Group Inc (PEG) stock as an Equal weight in their note to investors on January 27, 2025, suggesting a price target of $84 for the stock. On September 13, 2024, Jefferies Initiated their recommendations, while on June 17, 2024, Guggenheim Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $82. Stock get a Neutral rating from Guggenheim on January 22, 2024.

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