Duke Energy Corp (NYSE: DUK) on Friday, plunged -1.68% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $114.01. Within the past 52 weeks, DUK’s price has moved between $90.09 and $121.25.
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A company in the Utilities sector has jumped its sales by 3.69% annually for the last half of the decade. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 6.95%. With a float of $771.26 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $772.00 million.
In an organization with 27037 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 48.81%, operating margin of 25.39%, and the pretax margin is 16.93%.
Duke Energy Corp (DUK) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Observing investor behavior towards Utilities – Regulated Electric industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Duke Energy Corp is 0.16%, while institutional ownership is 66.75%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 15 ’24, was worth 44,592. In this transaction EVP, Chief Corporate Affairs of this company sold 400 shares at a rate of $111.48, taking the stock ownership to the 19,484 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 15 ’24, when Company’s EVP & CEO DEF & Midwest sold 15,002 for $109.74, making the entire transaction worth $1,646,245. This insider now owns 9,987 shares in total.
Duke Energy Corp (DUK) Latest Financial update
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 6.95% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 6.25% during the next five years compared to 7.61% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Duke Energy Corp (NYSE: DUK) Trading Performance Indicators
Duke Energy Corp (DUK) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.45 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 2.82.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 5.56, a number that is poised to hit 1.68 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 6.34 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Duke Energy Corp (DUK)
Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 2.62 million. That was inferior than the volume of 3.06 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 11.28%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.81.
During the past 100 days, Duke Energy Corp’s (DUK) raw stochastic average was set at 38.76%, which indicates a significant increase from 6.22% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 15.65% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 17.11% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $114.90, while its 200-day Moving Average is $106.44. However, in the short run, Duke Energy Corp’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $113.65. Second resistance stands at $115.19. The third major resistance level sits at $116.04. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $111.25, it is likely to go to the next support level at $110.40. The third support level lies at $108.86 if the price breaches the second support level.
Duke Energy Corp (NYSE: DUK) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 85.14 billion based on 772,482K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 29,060 M and income totals 2,841 M. The company made 8,154 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 1,281 M in sales during its previous quarter.
