Alliant Energy Corporation (LNT) earnings on July 30, 2026
More Alliant Energy Corporation earnings
Prior outlook: Pessimistic Outcome: Partial
Alliant Energy beat earnings and sales estimates while keeping its outlook unchanged. The stock's reaction was mild, dipping just 1% intraday and closing nearly flat.
LNT price around the earnings
70.78
Change: -0.2%
2026-07-31, 20:00 UTC
Start of the measured window
End of the measured window
69.92
70.33
70.73
71.14
70.89
July 30, 2026
July 30, 2026
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Prior thesis
Prior outlook: Pessimistic Outcome: Partial
- Thesis published
- Results released
Analysts project modest growth with 12% upside and a 75% beat rate, but recent trend strength is negative.
Context analyzed before publication
- Trend
- Consistent negative trend strength and recent selloff, but 75% beat rate and analyst support point to a modestly optimistic scenario.
Analysts
Evidence
- Analyst consensus
- Buy
- Consensus average (1-5)
- 1.86
- Analysts covering the stock
- 13
- Average price target
- 79.27
- Lowest price target
- 73
- Highest price target
- 86
- Upside to price target
- 12%
- Quarterly earnings growth
- 5.2%
- Revenue growth
- 5%
- Forward EPS
- 3.69
- Trailing EPS
- 3.18
- Analyst moves in the last 60 days
- 3
- Strong buy: 2
- Buy: 7
- Hold: 5
- Sell: 0
- Strong sell: 0
- Strong buy
- 2
- Buy
- 7
- Hold
- 5
- Sell
- 0
- Strong sell
- 0
- July 22, 2026 · BMO Capital: Maintains rating (Outperform → Outperform)
- July 15, 2026 · BMO Capital: Maintains rating (Outperform → Outperform)
- July 8, 2026 · TD Cowen: Initiates coverage (Hold)
News and sentiment
Evidence
Sentiment
- Sentiment
- Neutral
- Mention volume
- Low
- Normalized volume
- 33%
News
Sources (3)
- BMO Capital Maintains Outperform on Alliant Energy, Lowers Price Target to $80 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- BMO Capital Maintains Outperform on Alliant Energy, Raises Price Target to $83 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- TD Cowen Initiates Coverage On Alliant Energy with Hold Rating (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
Technicals
Evidence
- Price when the context was analyzed
- 72.01
- Average true range (ATR)
- 2.1%
- Distance to 52-week high
- -9.3%
- 14-day change (14d)
- -3.3%
- 30-day change (30d)
- -6.7%
- 30-day relative strength
- -5.2%
- SPY change (30d)
- -1.5%
- Nearest support
- 71.79
- Distance to nearest support
- 0.3%
- Nearest resistance
- 72.11
- Distance to nearest resistance
- 0.1%
- Volume accumulation ratio (14d / 46d)
- 0.91
- Major: 71.79 (0.3% away, 0.14 ATR, 24 touches)
- Mid: 71.35 (0.9% away, 0.43 ATR, 15 touches)
- Minor: 71.1 (1.3% away, 0.59 ATR, 7 touches)
- Major: 72.11 (0.1% away, 0.07 ATR, 29 touches)
- Major: 72.59 (0.8% away, 0.38 ATR, 28 touches)
- Major: 73.13 (1.6% away, 0.73 ATR, 25 touches)
Trends
Evidence
- Average earnings surprise
- +1.4%
- April 30, 2026: actual EPS 0.82 vs estimate 0.8 (surprise +2.9%)
- February 19, 2026: actual EPS 0.6 vs estimate 0.58 (surprise +2.7%)
- November 6, 2025: actual EPS 1.12 vs estimate 1.19 (surprise -5.8%)
- August 7, 2025: actual EPS 0.68 vs estimate 0.64 (surprise +6.0%)
Expected move
- Implied move
- +1.2%
- Source
- Options chain
Reactions over its last 20 earnings
- Median move
- 0.9%
- 75th percentile move
- 1.5%
- 90th percentile move
- 2.9%
- Up / down moves
- 14 / 6
- Average up move
- +1.1%
- Average down move
- -1.7%
Monitoring and close
What Alliant Energy Corporation reported
- Status
- Finished
| Actual EPS | 0.65 |
|---|---|
| EPS estimate | 0.61 |
| EPS surprise | +6.6% |
| Revenue | $971 million |
| Revenue estimate | $897 million |
| Revenue surprise | +8.3% |
Alliant Energy beat Q2 earnings and revenue estimates and reaffirmed 2026 guidance. Shares declined amid utility sector headwinds from rising costs and interest rates.
Sources (5)
- Alliant Energy (NASDAQ:LNT) Beats Q2 Estimates but Faces Utility Sector Headwinds (opens in a new tab) — ChartMill
- Alliant Energy Affirms FY2026 Adj EPS Guidance of $3.36-$3.46 vs $3.42 Est (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Alliant Energy reported adjusted EPS of $0.65, beating the $0.61 estimate, and revenue of $971M versus $896.938M expected. — Benzinga
- Alliant Energy Q2 Adj. EPS $0.65 Beats $0.61 Estimate, Sales $971.000M Beat $896.938M Estimate (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Alliant Energy Announces Second Quarter 2026 Results (opens in a new tab) — Yahoo
Pre-market second reading after the results
- Verdict
- Beat expectations
Heading into the open, results beat expectations on both earnings and revenue, and the price is indicating +0.2% pre-market, a move below the stock's usual reaction (about 1%). The figures don't confirm the prior scenario: that move is too small to draw conclusions from.
How the stock reacted
- Outcome
- Partial
- Consolidated
- -0.2%
- Max favorable move (MFE)
- 1.4%
- Max adverse move (MAE)
- 0.4%