Duke Energy CORP
Duke Energy CORP (DUK) is listed on NYSE and classified in Utilities - Regulated Electric, part of the Utilities sector. It is headquartered in Charlotte, United States and has 26,441 employees. The company is worth $97.77B and trades at 18.9x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 20.5x. Revenue was $32.24B in fiscal 2025, up 6.2% from the year before. Net income was $4.97B. The share price is 6.8% below its 52-week high of $134.49. It pays a dividend yielding 3.46%, and has raised its annual dividend for 21 years in a row in our records. 6 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Ken Griffin (Citadel Advisors), at $255.02M. In that quarter, 3 of them opened or added to the position and 2 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +25.2% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,443.75▲ +44.4%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 19 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $117.21 | $107.74 | $97.04 | $102.99 | $104.90 | $91.56 | $91.21 | $86.30 | $84.11 | $77.62 | $71.39 | $83.54 | $69.01 | $63.80 | $66.00 | $53.43 | $51.63 |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 25.0% a year plus a 3.5% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 20.5 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 19.3 across this company’s own years on record.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Sector median of 13.3x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividend growing 2.9% a year against a 7.0% required return, from the stock’s beta.
Companies of similar size in Utilities, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CEGConstellation Energy Corp | $255.21 | 24.9x | 2.8x | 0.67% | 15.05% | $90.42B |
| SOSouthern Co | $93.82 | 22.6x | 2.7x | 3.24% | 11.48% | $107.93B |
| NGGNational Grid PLC | $82.64 | 18.4x | 9.4x | 3.92% | 8.41% | $83.08B |
| AEPAmerican Electric Power Co Inc | $130.64 |
| $45.03 |
| $60.51 |
| P/E | 19.3x | 18.6x | 18.9x | 27.4x | 32.5x | 21.2x | 53.2x | 18.0x | 23.0x | 19.3x | 25.0x | 17.6x | 31.4x | 18.4x | 20.8x | 17.2x | 17.8x | 20.7x | 14.0x | 17.1x |
| P/S | 2.5x | 2.8x | 2.8x | 2.6x | 2.8x | 3.3x | 3.0x | 2.7x | 2.6x | 2.5x | 2.4x | 2.2x | 2.6x | 2.1x | 2.5x | 2.0x | 1.7x | 1.8x | 1.4x | 2.0x |
| P/B | 1.4x | 1.8x | 1.7x | 1.5x | 1.6x | 1.6x | 1.5x | 1.4x | 1.4x | 1.4x | 1.3x | 1.2x | 1.4x | 1.2x | 1.1x | 1.3x | 1.1x | 1.0x | 0.9x | 1.2x |
| EPS | $6.31 | $5.71 | $3.54 | $3.17 | $4.94 | $1.72 | $5.06 | $3.76 | $4.36 | $3.11 | $4.05 | $2.66 | $3.76 | $3.07 | $3.83 | $3.00 | $2.49 | $3.21 | $3.54 |
| Dividend yield | 4.21% | 3.60% | 3.84% | 4.18% | 3.86% | 3.72% | 4.17% | 4.11% | 4.21% | 4.15% | 4.33% | 4.54% | 3.77% | 4.48% | 4.75% | 4.50% | 5.45% | 5.46% | 6.00% | 4.26% |
| Payout | 84.11% | 66.88% | 72.50% | 114.69% | 125.55% | 78.95% | 222.09% | 74.03% | 96.70% | 80.05% | 108.04% | 80.00% | 118.42% | 82.18% | 98.70% | 77.55% | 97.00% | 113.25% | 84.11% | 72.88% |
| Profit margin | 10.87% | 15.41% | 14.90% | 9.78% | 8.86% | 15.87% | 5.89% | 14.94% | 10.87% | 12.98% | 9.46% | 12.59% | 8.37% | 11.71% | 9.87% | 11.74% | 9.25% | 8.44% | 10.31% | 11.79% |
| ROE | 6.45% | 9.58% | 9.03% | 5.78% | 5.17% | 7.93% | 2.87% | 8.00% | 6.08% | 7.33% | 5.24% | 7.09% | 4.61% | 6.45% | 4.33% | 7.49% | 5.86% | 4.94% | 6.49% | 7.02% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+8.7% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
| 22.6x |
| 2.2x |
| 2.97% |
| 10.13% |
| $71.12B |
| DDominion Energy Inc | $65.40 | 22.6x | 2.1x | 4.08% | 8.28% | $57.52B |
| NEENextera Energy Inc | $81.90 | 14.8x | 3.1x | 3.04% | 11.68% | $170.84B |