XCEL ENERGY INC
At today's price, XCEL ENERGY INC (XEL) is priced for +1.7% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
The balance sheet tells you what kind of company this is: a regulated utility carrying about $36.6 billion of net debt to fund a $60 billion-plus capital plan, with management investing a record roughly $14 billion this year. That spending is the growth engine. Q1 2026 ongoing EPS rose about 8% to $0.91, the company reaffirmed full-year guidance of $4.04 to $4.16, and it is targeting 6 gigawatts of data-center load by 2027, anchored by a Google agreement. At $77.38 (as of June 27, 2026) the pr
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1,231 institutional managers reported holding XEL in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 85% of the company; the top 10 hold 47%. 106 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 37.2M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 6% of shares outstanding (6 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.
XEL's share count grew 15.8% over the past five years. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting), raised 17 years straight; the current rate is $2.28 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $3.36B in dividends.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at XEL over the trailing three years: 2025: 1 buy totaling $150k. 24 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.
XEL's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-28 | -3.3% | -9.0% |
| 2023-10-28 | -2.4% | +6.2% |
| 2024-02-22 | +0.6% | -7.3% |
| 2024-04-26 | -2.5% | -1.0% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
XEL's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-14 (items 8.01); 2026-06-23 (items 8.01); 2026-06-22 (items 8.01); 2026-06-09 (items 8.01); 2026-06-03 (items 8.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: July 3, 2026
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