Utilities Sector Analysis

73 tickers in Utilities
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SOLV Energy, Inc.
MWH·Utilities
B ★★★Hold
Current$32.73
Target$50.00
Return+52.8%
Aug 15, 2026

SOLV Energy is an exceptionally cheap, hyper-growth backdoor play on the U.S. AI and electrification grid supercycle, though investors must navigate volatile EPC margins and a complex corporate structure designed to enrich legacy private equity owners.

Score
76
Companhia Energética de Minas Gerais - CEMIG
CIG·Utilities
B ★★★Hold
Current$1.95
Target$2.71
Return+39.0%
Aug 15, 2026

Cemig is a highly efficient, cash-gushing distribution and generation monopoly trading at a distressed 6x multiple with a double-digit yield, though investors must demand this massive margin of safety to endure the looming, binary threats of federal political intervention and the expiration of 1.7 GW of critical hydro concessions.

Score
80
Ormat Technologies, Inc.
ORA·Utilities
C ★★Sell
Current$113.52
Aug 14, 2026

Ormat benefits from geothermal power demand for AI data centers, but extreme valuation and competition from next-generation EGS rivals such as Fervo make risk-reward unfavorable.

Score
68
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's geothermal technology and $7.2B contractual backlog position it for AI hyperscaler demand, but extreme cash burn and large infrastructure deployment risks require tolerance.

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
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
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