Duke Energy Corp (DUK) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $116.31, with 7.36 million shares of worth about $856.17 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 5.52% during that period and on April 09, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 0.31%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 776.00M shares, out of which, 775.52M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -3.39% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -1.18%. Year-to-date (YTD), DUK shares are showing a performance of 7.95% which increased to 20.77% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $92.75 but also hit the highest price of $125.27 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Duke Energy Corp shares is 4.06 million. The stock is currently trading -2.36% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -0.24% for SMA50 and it goes to 3.16% higher than SMA200.
Duke Energy Corp (NYSE: DUK) currently have 776.00M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 66.38% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $90.38B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.38. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 20.47, while it has posted earnings per share of $5.68 in the same period. Its PEG reads 3.06 and has Quick Ratio of 0.44 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.70. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for DUK, volatility over the week remained 4.22% while standing at 2.27% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Duke Energy Corp (DUK) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 1.54 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 1.24 and it is 6.71 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 1.4 which is 1.64 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 1.44 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 7.15% while it is estimated to increase by 6.29% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 6.68% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 2.25% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Coverage by Mizuho stated Duke Energy Corp (DUK) stock as an Outperform in their note to investors on October 15, 2024, suggesting a price target of $121 for the stock. On September 20, 2024, Jefferies Initiated their recommendations, while on February 12, 2024, BofA Securities Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $96. Stock get an Outperform rating from Evercore ISI on January 23, 2024.
