Duke Energy Carolinas customer rates drop 6.2 percent on Jan. 1 due to falling fuel prices
| DUK Stock | USD 106.81 0.44 0.41% |
About 54% of Duke Energy's investor base is interested to short. The analysis of overall sentiment of trading Duke Energy stock suggests that many investors are impartial at this time. Duke Energy's investing sentiment shows overall attitude of investors towards Duke Energy.
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Duke Energy Fundamental Analysis
We analyze Duke Energy's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Duke Energy using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Duke Energy based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this company, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.
Operating Margin
Operating Margin Comparative Analysis
Duke Energy is currently under evaluation in operating margin category among its peers. Operating Margin shows how much operating income a company makes on each dollar of sales. It is one of the profitability indicators which helps analysts to understand whether the firm is successful or not making money from everyday operations.
Duke Energy Potential Pair-trading
One of the popular trading techniques among algorithmic traders is to use market-neutral strategies where every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if one position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Below are some of the equities that can be combined with Duke Energy stock to make a market-neutral strategy. Peer analysis of Duke Energy could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Duke Energy by comparing valuation metrics with similar companies.
Peers
Duke Energy Related Equities
| D | Dominion Energy | 0.69 | ||||
| AEP | American Electric | 0.17 | ||||
| SO | Southern | 0.16 | ||||
| EIX | Edison International | 0.30 | ||||
| ED | Consolidated Edison | 0.42 | ||||
| EXC | Exelon | 0.71 | ||||
| NEE | Nextera Energy | 1.14 |
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Is Electric Utilities space expected to grow? Or is there an opportunity to expand the business' product line in the future? Factors like these will boost the valuation of Duke Energy. If investors know Duke will grow in the future, the company's valuation will be higher. The financial industry is built on trying to define current growth potential and future valuation accurately. All the valuation information about Duke Energy listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.
The market value of Duke Energy is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Duke that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Duke Energy's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Duke Energy's true underlying value. Investors use various methods to calculate intrinsic value and buy a stock when its market value falls below its intrinsic value. Because Duke Energy's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Duke Energy's underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.
Please note, there is a significant difference between Duke Energy's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Duke Energy is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Duke Energy's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.