FirstEnergy Corp. (FE) earnings on April 28, 2026
More FirstEnergy Corp. earnings
Prior outlook: Pessimistic Outcome: Accurate
FirstEnergy stock declined after reporting earnings, sliding 2% during the day and ending down 1.3%.
FE price around the earnings
48.93
Change: -1.3%
2026-04-29, 19:59 UTC
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Prior thesis
Prior outlook: Pessimistic Outcome: Accurate
Analysts see moderate growth, but price and sentiment are weak.
Analysts anticipate moderate growth for this company, but its recent price performance has been weak compared to the market. Extreme positive sentiment from retail investors also diverges from the stock's trend.
Context analyzed before publication
- Summary
- Analysts see moderate growth, but price and sentiment are weak.
- Playbook
- With a weak price trend and extreme retail optimism, the scenario suggests a more supportive price action before a constructive outlook.
- Trend
- Outlook deteriorating over past two sessions.
Analysts
Drivers
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Analysts
Positive
Analysts generally recommend buying this stock and point to a modestly optimistic scenario. Some recent analyst actions have also been supportive.
Evidence
- Analyst consensus
- Buy
- Consensus average (1-5)
- 2.24
- Analysts covering the stock
- 14
- Average price target
- 53
- Lowest price target
- 49
- Highest price target
- 56
- Upside to price target
- 8.6%
- Revenue growth
- 20.7%
- Forward EPS
- 2.95
- Trailing EPS
- 1.76
- Analyst moves in the last 60 days
- 4
- Strong buy: 3
- Buy: 5
- Hold: 9
- Sell: 0
- Strong sell: 0
- Strong buy
- 3
- Buy
- 5
- Hold
- 9
- Sell
- 0
- Strong sell
- 0
- April 21, 2026 · Jefferies: Maintains rating (Hold → Hold)
- April 17, 2026 · TD Cowen: Initiates coverage (Hold)
- April 8, 2026 · Barclays: Maintains rating (Overweight → Overweight)
- March 12, 2026 · JP Morgan: Maintains rating (Neutral → Neutral)
News and sentiment
Drivers
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News & sentiment
Negative
There is very strong positive sentiment from individual investors, which is unusual given the stock's weak price trend. This could pose a risk if the company's upcoming results are not strong.
Evidence
Sentiment
- Sentiment
- Constructive
- Mention volume
- Low
- Normalized volume
- 33%
News
Sources (3)
- Jefferies Maintains Hold on FirstEnergy, Raises Price Target to $52 — Benzinga
- TD Cowen Initiates Coverage On FirstEnergy with Hold Rating, Announces Price Target of $56 — Benzinga
- Barclays Maintains Overweight on FirstEnergy, Raises Price Target to $53 — Benzinga
Technicals
Drivers
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Technical
Negative
The stock's price has shown negative trends recently and is performing worse than the broader market. It is currently market review in the lower part of its recent price range.
Evidence
- Average true range (ATR)
- 1.8%
- Distance to 52-week high
- -6.8%
- 14-day change (14d)
- -4.2%
- 30-day change
- -3.7%
- 30-day relative strength
- -7.8%
- Benchmark change
- +4.1%
- Nearest support
- 48.2
- Nearest resistance
- 52.34
- Volume accumulation ratio
- 0.84
Trends
Evidence
- Average earnings surprise
- +3.5%
- February 17, 2026: actual EPS 0.53 vs estimate 0.53 (surprise -0.9%)
- October 22, 2025: actual EPS 0.76 vs estimate 0.8 (surprise -5.0%)
- July 30, 2025: actual EPS 0.52 vs estimate 0.49 (surprise +6.9%)
- April 23, 2025: actual EPS 0.67 vs estimate 0.59 (surprise +13.1%)
Expected move
There is no implied-move data available for this event.
Reactions over its last 19 earnings
- Median move
- 1.7%
- 75th percentile move
- 2.9%
- 90th percentile move
- 4.2%
- Up / down moves
- 6 / 13
- Average up move
- +1.5%
- Average down move
- -2.5%
Monitoring and close
What FirstEnergy Corp. reported
There is no monitoring data available for this event.
Pre-market second reading after the results
There is no second reading available for this event.
How the stock reacted
- Outcome
- Accurate
- Consolidated
- -1.3%
- Max favorable move (MFE)
- 2.1%
- Max adverse move (MAE)
- 0%