Exelon (EXC) Stock Price, News & Analysis

12 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Exelon in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 9 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" EXC shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in EXC, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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12 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Exelon's stock. Their EXC share price targets range from $36.00 to $44.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $39.09 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 7.8% from the stock's current price.
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Exelon's stock was trading at $35.90 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, EXC shares have increased by 1.0% and is now trading at $36.27.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 1st 2024.
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Exelon Co. (NASDAQ:EXC) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, February, 21st. The company reported $0.60 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.58 by $0.02. The business had revenue of $5.37 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.87 billion. Exelon had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 9.40% and a net margin of 10.72%. Exelon's quarterly revenue was up 15.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.43 earnings per share.
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Exelon declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, February 20th. Stockholders of record on Monday, March 4th will be given a dividend of $0.38 per share on Friday, March 15th. This represents a $1.52 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 4.19%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, March 1st. This is a positive change from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.36.
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Exelon (NASDAQ:EXC) pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 4.17%. EXC has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The company has been increasing its dividend for 2 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 65.24%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, EXC will have a dividend payout ratio of 58.24% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Exelon (NASDAQ:EXC) stock in their portfolio include Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLU), Fidelity MSCI Utilities Index ETF (FUTY), iShares U.S. Utilities ETF (IDU), Vanguard Utilities ETF (VPU), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Utilities ETF (RSPU), First Trust Utilities AlphaDEX Fund (FXU), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Utilities ETF (RYU) and Direxion Daily Utilities Bull 3X Shares (UTSL).

Exelon issued an update on its FY24 earnings guidance on Wednesday, February, 21st. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.40-2.50 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.41.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Exelon investors own include Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS), NextEra Energy (NEE), TFI International (TFII), Enbridge (ENB), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Lockheed Martin (LMT), AbbVie (ABBV), Automatic Data Processing (ADP) and Broadcom (AVGO).

Exelon's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Perpetual Ltd (0.40%), Miller Howard Investments Inc. NY (0.16%), Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.05%), Czech National Bank (0.02%), Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services LLC (0.01%) and Gulf International Bank UK Ltd (0.01%). Insiders that own company stock include Calvin Butler Jr, Carim V Khouzami, Christopher M Crane, Fabian Souza, John Tyler Anthony, Joseph Dominguez, Joseph Nigro, Michael Innocenzo and William P Bowers.
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Shares of EXC stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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