Xcel Energy Inc. (XEL) earnings on July 30, 2026
More Xcel Energy Inc. earnings
Prior outlook: Optimistic Outcome: Partial
The stock opened higher and rose as much as 2.64% during the day, but those gains evaporated and it closed down 0.66%.
XEL price around the earnings
78.23
Change: -0.7%
2026-07-30, 20:00 UTC
Start of the measured window
End of the measured window
77.92
78.78
79.64
80.50
78.75
July 30, 2026
- Price: green if it ends above the starting price; red if it ends below
- Start of the measured window
- End of the measured window
- Market open
- No trading (market closed)
- Starting price
Prior thesis
Prior outlook: Optimistic Outcome: Partial
- Thesis published
- Results released
Strong analyst consensus and decent earnings history, but low implied volatility limits event impact.
Context analyzed before publication
- Trend
- Flat to slightly negative trajectory with recent weakness, and extremely low implied volatility limiting event impact.
Analysts
Evidence
- Analyst consensus
- Strong buy
- Consensus average (1-5)
- 1.42
- Analysts covering the stock
- 18
- Average price target
- 92.72
- Lowest price target
- 74
- Highest price target
- 102
- Upside to price target
- 17.7%
- Quarterly earnings growth
- 15.1%
- Revenue growth
- 2.9%
- Forward EPS
- 4.53
- Trailing EPS
- 3.4
- Analyst moves in the last 60 days
- 5
- Strong buy: 3
- Buy: 14
- Hold: 1
- Sell: 0
- Strong sell: 1
- Strong buy
- 3
- Buy
- 14
- Hold
- 1
- Sell
- 0
- Strong sell
- 1
- July 22, 2026 · BMO Capital: Maintains rating (Outperform → Outperform)
- July 16, 2026 · JP Morgan: Maintains rating (Overweight → Overweight)
- July 16, 2026 · Truist Securities: Maintains rating (Buy → Buy)
- July 9, 2026 · Barclays: Maintains rating (Overweight → Overweight)
- June 23, 2026 · Mizuho: Maintains rating (Outperform → Outperform)
News and sentiment
Evidence
Sentiment
- Sentiment
- Neutral
- Mention volume
- Low
- Normalized volume
- 33%
News
Sources (4)
- BMO Capital Maintains Outperform on Xcel Energy, Lowers Price Target to $92 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- JP Morgan Maintains Overweight on Xcel Energy, Raises Price Target to $102 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Truist Securities Maintains Buy on Xcel Energy, Raises Price Target to $94 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Barclays Maintains Overweight on Xcel Energy, Raises Price Target to $90 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
Technicals
Evidence
- Price when the context was analyzed
- 78.88
- Average true range (ATR)
- 2.2%
- Distance to 52-week high
- -4.7%
- 14-day change (14d)
- -0.5%
- 30-day change (30d)
- -3.8%
- 30-day relative strength
- +4.8%
- QQQ change (30d)
- -8.6%
- Nearest support
- 78.7
- Distance to nearest support
- 0.2%
- Nearest resistance
- 79
- Distance to nearest resistance
- 0.2%
- Volume accumulation ratio (14d / 46d)
- 0.79
- Major: 78.7 (0.2% away, 0.1 ATR, 44 touches)
- Mid: 78.19 (0.9% away, 0.4 ATR, 18 touches)
- Minor: 77.72 (1.5% away, 0.67 ATR, 9 touches)
- Minor: 79 (0.2% away, 0.07 ATR, 9 touches)
- Major: 79.28 (0.5% away, 0.23 ATR, 45 touches)
- Major: 79.6 (0.9% away, 0.41 ATR, 43 touches)
Trends
Evidence
- Average earnings surprise
- +2.7%
- April 30, 2026: actual EPS 0.91 vs estimate 0.91 (surprise +0.2%)
- February 5, 2026: actual EPS 0.96 vs estimate 0.96 (surprise +0.1%)
- October 30, 2025: actual EPS 1.24 vs estimate 1.32 (surprise -5.9%)
- July 31, 2025: actual EPS 0.75 vs estimate 0.64 (surprise +16.3%)
Expected move
- Implied move
- +1.1%
- Source
- Options chain
Reactions over its last 20 earnings
- Median move
- 1.5%
- 75th percentile move
- 2.5%
- 90th percentile move
- 3.5%
- Up / down moves
- 14 / 6
- Average up move
- +2.1%
- Average down move
- -1.6%
Monitoring and close
What Xcel Energy Inc. reported
- Status
- Finished
| Actual EPS | 0.93 |
|---|---|
| EPS estimate | 0.78 |
| EPS surprise | +19.2% |
| Revenue | $3,119 million |
| Revenue estimate | $3,524 million |
| Revenue surprise | -11.5% |
Xcel Energy reported Q2 2026 earnings in line with estimates, but revenue missed expectations. Mixed outlook maintained.
Sources (7)
- Xcel Q2 Earnings Beat Estimates on Infrastructure Investment Recovery (opens in a new tab) — Zacks
- Xcel Energy Inc. (XEL) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript (opens in a new tab) — SeekingAlpha
- Xcel Energy (XEL) Surpasses Q2 Earnings Estimates (opens in a new tab) — Zacks
- Xcel Energy Narrows FY2026 Adj EPS Guidance from $4.04-$4.16 to $4.04-$4.06 vs $4.11 Est (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Xcel Energy reported adjusted earnings of $0.93 per share, beating the $0.78 estimate, but revenue of $3.119B missed the $3.524B forecast. — Benzinga
- Xcel Energy Q2 Adj. EPS $0.93 Beats $0.78 Estimate, Sales $3.119B Miss $3.524B Estimate (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Xcel Energy Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Report (opens in a new tab) — Yahoo
Pre-market second reading after the results
- Verdict
- Beat expectations
Heading into the open, results beat expectations on earnings but not on revenue and the price is indicating +0.4% pre-market, a move below the stock's usual reaction (about 2%). The figures don't confirm the prior scenario: that move is too small to draw conclusions from.
How the stock reacted
- Outcome
- Partial
- Consolidated
- -0.7%
- Max favorable move (MFE)
- 2.6%
- Max adverse move (MAE)
- 1.1%