Utilities Sector Analysis

73 tickers in Utilities
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Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo - SABESP
SBS·Utilities
B ★★★Hold
Current$4.68
Target$5.80
Return+23.9%
Aug 14, 2026

Sabesp is a highly defensive, unassailable utility undergoing a massive post-privatization efficiency turnaround with guaranteed decades of structural growth, though investors must endure near-term margin volatility and ever-present hydrological risks.

Score
77
Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc.
SWX·Utilities
B ★★★Hold
Current$92.09
Target$101.52
Return+10.2%
Aug 14, 2026

Southwest Gas offers a pure-play regulated natural gas distribution model powered by exceptional Sunbelt demographic tailwinds, though investors must heavily monitor persistent regulatory decarbonization pressures in California and the massive execution risks associated with its $2.3 billion Great Basin pipeline expansion.

Score
75
Clearway Energy, Inc.
CWEN·Utilities
B ★★★Hold
Current$32.65
Target$40.50
Return+24.0%
Aug 13, 2026

Clearway Energy is an elite, deeply undervalued clean infrastructure tollbooth poised to reap massive rewards from the AI data center power supercycle, provided its heavily levered balance sheet can survive the dual assaults of a prolonged high-interest-rate regime and unpredictable wind resource droughts.

Score
78
Fervo Energy Company
FRVO·Utilities
B ★★★Hold
Current$23.17
Target$45.00
Return+94.2%
Aug 13, 2026

Fervo Energy controls a monopolistic grip on the next-generation geothermal technology urgently required by AI hyperscalers, supported by a $7.2 billion contractual moat, though investors must tolerate extreme capital burn rates and the execution risks inherent in massive infrastructure deployment.

Score
80
Oklo Inc.
OKLO·Utilities
F Avoid
Current$47.01
Aug 13, 2026

Oklo offers immense long-term potential as a visionary, zero-carbon power provider for AI data centers, but its astronomical valuation and extreme execution risks make it uninvestable at current levels.

Score
28
National Fuel Gas Company
NFG·Utilities
A ★★★★Buy
Current$80.54
Target$97.50
Return+21.1%
Aug 12, 2026

National Fuel is executing a highly accretive, masterfully engineered transformation into a premier, geographically diversified regulated utility, offering investors a uniquely mispriced 11.3x forward earnings multiple and a bulletproof dividend, though vigilant monitoring of the $2.62 billion Ohio integration and New York regulatory hostility is strictly required.

Score
90
UGI Corporation
UGI·Utilities
B ★★★Hold
Current$33.99
Target$41.30
Return+21.5%
Aug 12, 2026

While UGI offers a massive, highly discounted safety margin underpinned by a robustly growing, cash-generating regulated utility network, investors must remain sidelined until management permanently arrests the structural customer attrition devouring its AmeriGas propane division.

Score
75
IDACORP, Inc.
IDA·Utilities
C ★★Sell
Current$141.84
Aug 12, 2026

Idacorp possesses a robust, monopoly-protected electric utility model in a hyper-growth region driven by semiconductor reshoring and data center expansion, but its massive $1.4 billion annual capital expenditure cycle combined with a steep valuation premium creates an unfavorable risk-reward profile for new investors at current price levels.

Score
68
Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P.
BEP·Utilities
A ★★★★Buy
Current$33.20
Target$41.13
Return+23.9%
Aug 12, 2026

Brookfield Renewable is an apex infrastructure compounder leveraging unmatched scale and structural AI power demand to drive double-digit cash flow growth, offering a deeply undervalued entry point for investors willing to navigate the optical noise of GAAP accounting.

Score
91
Korea Electric Power Corporation
KEP·Utilities
B ★★★Hold
Current$12.49
Target$15.48
Return+23.9%
Aug 10, 2026

Korea Electric Power is an unassailable, deeply undervalued state monopoly sitting at the heart of South Korea's AI and electrification supercycle, yet its equity upside remains structurally throttled by extreme debt levels and government-mandated tariff suppression that prioritizes national inflation control over shareholder returns.

Score
75
Emera Incorporated
EMA·Utilities
C ★★Sell
Current$51.59
Aug 10, 2026

Emera offers a highly visible 7-8% rate base growth profile anchored by Florida's population boom, but its stretched balance sheet and outsized exposure to extreme weather risk critically temper the upside and justify a Sell rating.

Score
74
PPL Corporation
PPL·Utilities
B ★★★Hold
Current$35.46
Target$40.95
Return+15.5%
Aug 10, 2026

PPL is a premier, structurally growing regulated utility positioned perfectly to monetize the AI data center supercycle, though investors must patiently absorb a known $2 billion equity dilution overhang required to fund its massive grid expansion.

Score
81
Vistra Corp.
VST·Utilities
A ★★★★Buy
Current$140.59
Target$205.92
Return+46.5%
Aug 10, 2026

Vistra is the indispensable, zero-carbon backbone powering the AI data center supercycle, trading at deeply discounted forward multiples while aggressively retiring its own equity, though investors must diligently monitor the persistent threat of federal regulatory intervention in power capacity markets.

Score
88
Evergy, Inc.
EVRG·Utilities
A ★★★★Buy
Current$83.38
Target$93.28
Return+11.9%
Aug 10, 2026

Evergy is transitioning from a slow-growth Midwest utility into a primary beneficiary of the AI infrastructure supercycle, leveraging a massive 3 GW data center pipeline and Panasonic's EV plant to drive an industry-leading 12% rate base CAGR, though equity dilution and regulatory risks remain key execution hurdles.

Score
86
NiSource Inc.
NI·Utilities
B ★★★Hold
Current$42.61
Target$50.02
Return+17.4%
Aug 10, 2026

NiSource has engineered a brilliant, legally insulated regulatory structure to monopolize hyperscale data center energy demand in Indiana, offering investors elite 8% to 9% structural earnings growth, provided the company perfectly executes its staggering $28.6 billion infrastructure transition without sparking political backlash.

Score
81
AXIA Energia SA
AXIA·Utilities
A ★★★★Buy
Current$10.50
Target$14.44
Return+37.5%
Aug 10, 2026

AXIA Energia is an unassailable infrastructural monopoly generating explosive free cash flow as it pivots to unregulated free-market pricing, offering deep undervaluation and a massive dividend, though investors must tolerate inherent Brazilian hydrological and interest rate volatility.

Score
89
Consolidated Edison, Inc.
ED·Utilities
B ★★★Hold
Current$107.98
Target$119.00
Return+10.2%
Aug 9, 2026

Con Edison offers an ironclad, state-mandated 8.8% infrastructure growth pipeline and a 52-year legacy of rising dividends, though its upside is mechanically throttled by structural equity dilution and emerging populist rate-cap legislation.

Score
78
Atmos Energy Corporation
ATO·Utilities
A ★★★★Buy
Current$170.19
Target$185.00
Return+8.7%
Aug 9, 2026

Atmos Energy offers a highly visible, low-risk earnings compounder anchored by its robust Texas pipeline network and consistent rate base expansion, making it a premium utility for stable income, provided regulatory relations remain constructive.

Score
88
Sempra
SRE·Utilities
S ★★★★★Strong Buy
Current$83.88
Target$100.16
Return+19.4%
Aug 9, 2026

Sempra is a radically undervalued, backdoor AI infrastructure play utilizing masterful capital recycling to fund unprecedented Texas data center load growth, though investors must continuously monitor the simmering regulatory and wildfire liability risks inherent to its California utility footprint.

Score
100
Constellation Energy Corporation
CEG·Utilities
B ★★★Hold
Current$269.98
Target$305.50
Return+13.2%
Aug 9, 2026

Constellation Energy operates as the indispensable, monopoly-like baseload provider for the AI infrastructure revolution, but its heavily expanded valuation multiple leaves minimal margin of safety against potential regulatory price caps or Calpine integration friction.

Score
79
NuScale Power Corporation
SMR·Utilities
F Avoid
Current$8.99
Aug 8, 2026

NuScale holds an incredibly valuable regulatory monopoly as the only NRC-approved SMR developer, but its complete lack of commercial revenue, history of cancelled projects, and reliance on structural shareholder dilution make it uninvestable until binding customer orders materialize.

Score
15
NRG Energy, Inc.
NRG·Utilities
B ★★★Hold
Current$120.83
Target$154.95
Return+28.2%
Aug 7, 2026

NRG commands a highly cash-generative, integrated power platform trading at a massive discount to merchant peers, though extreme leverage from the LS Power acquisition and acute sensitivity to Texas weather volatility mandate a cautious approach until deleveraging is achieved.

Score
80
Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated
PEG·Utilities
A ★★★★Buy
Current$76.68
Target$83.54
Return+8.9%
Aug 8, 2026

PSEG offers the ultimate dual-engine utility infrastructure play, combining a relentlessly compounding, low-risk New Jersey distribution grid with the explosive, unpriced upside of a carbon-free nuclear fleet entering a historic era of PJM capacity scarcity, though investors must vigilantly monitor emerging FERC regulatory hurdles regarding hyperscaler co-location.

Score
89
Duke Energy Corporation
DUK·Utilities
B ★★★Hold
Current$123.86
Target$134.00
Return+8.2%
Aug 7, 2026

Duke Energy is a flawless, cash-generating monopoly perfectly positioned to capitalize on the generational AI data center and electrification supercycle, though its massive debt load and fully priced valuation require patience for the ideal entry point.

Score
82