After Falling -2.15% During The Past Week, Should You Still Buy Exelon Corp. (NASDAQ: EXC)?

Exelon Corp. (NASDAQ:EXC)’s traded shares stood at 5.42 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 0.53. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $40.07, to imply a decrease of -1.57% or -$0.64 in intraday trading. The EXC share’s 52-week high remains $41.48, putting it -3.52% down since that peak but still an impressive 16.77% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $33.35. The company has a valuation of $40.09B, with an average of 5.92 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 6.50 million shares over the past 3 months.

Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Exelon Corp. (EXC), translating to a mean rating of 2.59. Of 9 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give EXC a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 2 advise Hold as 7 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at 0.67.

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Exelon Corp. (NASDAQ:EXC) trade information

After registering a -1.57% downside in the last session, Exelon Corp. (EXC) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -2.15%, and 0.35% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is 11.62%. Short interest in Exelon Corp. (NASDAQ:EXC) saw shorts transact 16.17 million shares and set a 2.01 days time to cover.

The extremes give us $39 and $63 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, EXC has been trading -57.22% off suggested target high and 2.67% from its likely low.

Exelon Corp. (EXC) estimates and forecasts

Looking at statistics comparing Exelon Corp. share performance against respective industry, we note that the company has underperformed competitors. Exelon Corp. (EXC) shares are 7.37% up over the last 6 months, with its year-to-date growth rate lower than industry average at 2.52% against 4.80%. The rating firms project that company’s revenue will grow 2.10% compared to the previous financial year.

Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 7 analysts is 5.85B. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 5 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 4.99B.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 5.98B and 5.37B respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to fall -2.10% before dropping -7.00% in the following quarter.

An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings grew an estimated 2.40% for the past 5-year period. While 2024 is set for a 2.88% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 5.80% annually.

EXC Dividends

Exelon Corp. has its next earnings report out on 2024-Oct-30. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. Exelon Corp. has a forward dividend ratio of 1.50, with the share yield ticking at 3.74% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 3.52%.

Exelon Corp. (NASDAQ:EXC)’s Major holders

Exelon Corp. insiders hold 0.11% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 86.77% of the shares at 86.86% float percentage. In total, 86.77% institutions holds shares in the company, led by VANGUARD GROUP INC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 121.05 million shares (or 12.1051% of shares), all amounting to roughly $4.19 billion.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is BLACKROCK INC. with 100.54 million shares, or about 10.0543% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $3.48 billion.

We also have Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard 500 Index Fund as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Exelon Corp. (EXC) shares. Going by data provided on Jun 30, 2024 , Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund holds roughly 31.59 shares. This is just over 3.25% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $1.27 billion. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 25.67, or 2.64% of the shares, all valued at about 1.03 billion.