About Duke Energy Corporation (Holdin
Duke Energy Corporation, through its subsidiaries, operates as an energy company in the United States. The company operates through two segments: Electric Utilities and Infrastructure (EU&I); and Gas Utilities and Infrastructure (GU&I). The EU&I segment generates, transmits, distributes, and sells electricity to customers in the Southeast and Midwest regions. It generates electricity through coal, hydroelectric, natural gas, oil, renewables, and nuclear fuel. This segment also engages in the wholesale of electricity to municipalities, electric cooperative utilities, and other load-serving entities. The GU&I segment distributes natural gas to customers in the residential, commercial, industrial, and power generation natural gas sectors; and invests in pipeline transmission projects, renewable natural gas projects, and natural gas storage facilities. The company was formerly known as Duke Energy Holding Corp. and changed its name to Duke Energy Corporation in April 2006. Duke Energy Corporation was founded in 1904 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Duke Energy Corporation (Holdin (DUK) is a Utilities company in the Utilities - Regulated Electric industry with a market capitalisation of $91.6B. The stock trades at 17.70x trailing earnings and yields 3.69%.
- Sector
- Utilities
- Industry
- Utilities - Regulated Electric
- Market cap
- $91.6B
- P/E ratio
- 17.70
- Forward P/E
- 16.39
- EPS (TTM)
- $6.64
- Revenue (TTM)
- $32.8B
- Free cash flow
- -$4.5B
- Profit margin
- 16.0%
- Dividend yield
- 3.69%
- Beta
- 0.36
- Shares outstanding
- 779.7M
Financial health: Weak4.4/10
3 strengths, 4 concerns. Weakest points: current ratio, return on equity, free cash flow and 1 more.
- Current ratio: 0.55 (Concern, benchmark > 1.5) — Short-term assets cover only 0.55x short-term liabilities — below 1.0, meaning bills due this year exceed the assets on hand to pay them. It has deteriorated over the last 4 years.
- Return on equity: 9.9% (Concern, benchmark > 15%) — Earns 9.9% on shareholder equity, well short of the > 15% mark.
- Gross margin: 52.0% (Strong, benchmark > 40%) — Keeps 52.0% of revenue after the direct cost of sales, comfortably past the > 40% mark.
- Net margin: 16.0% (Strong, benchmark > 10%) — Turns 16.0% of revenue into profit, comfortably past the > 10% mark.
- Free cash flow: -$1.7B (Concern, benchmark positive) — Burned $1.7B of cash after capital spending, so operations did not fund themselves. It has improved over the last 4 years.
- Revenue growth: 1.1% (Watch, benchmark > 10%) — Revenue changed 1.1% year on year, short of the > 10% mark.
- Earnings growth: 10.6% (Strong, benchmark > 10%) — Earnings changed 10.6% year on year, comfortably past the > 10% mark.
- PEG ratio: 2.19 (Concern, benchmark < 1) — At 2.19, the price looks expensive relative to expected growth — Lynch treated 1.0 as fair value.
- Payout ratio: 64.2% (Watch, benchmark < 60%) — Pays out 64.2% of earnings as dividends — above the level usually considered sustainable.