DUKE ENERGY CORPORATION
boothcheck covers DUKE ENERGY CORPORATION (DUK) but does not put one priced-in number on it: here the defensible answer is the evidence rather than a point estimate. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating. Narrative composed July 25, 2026.
• The three-year capital plan runs 17.75 billion dollars in 2026, 19.5 billion in 2027 and 21.2 billion in 2028, and management funded a slice of it by selling Piedmont's Tennessee gas business to Spire for roughly 2.5 billion dollars instead of issuing stock. • Lenders now take a large share of the operating profit before shareholders see any: interest expense reached $3,634 million in 2025 against $3,014 million two years earlier, while operating income rose from $7,070 million to $8,626 milli
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2,413 institutional managers reported holding DUK in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 69% of the company; the top 10 hold 36%. 187 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 15.6M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 2% of shares outstanding (4.8 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
DUK's share count grew 1.2% over the past five years. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting); the current rate is $4.22 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $9.00B in dividends.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at DUK over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 21 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
DUK's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-09 | +3.5% | -3.2% |
| 2023-11-03 | +0.8% | +9.2% |
| 2024-02-24 | -4.0% | +5.4% |
| 2024-05-08 | +1.9% | +0.4% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
DUK's latest 8-K filings: 2026-08-13 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-08-05 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-08-04 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-07-17 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-07-06 (items 7.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: July 25, 2026
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