Insider buying last 90 days
No open-market insider purchases were filed for WEC in the last 90 days.
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WEC Energy (WEC) Stock Analysis & Forecast
$103.17−1.56 (−1.5%)
Close on Sep 18, 2026. Page updated Sep 19, 9:19 pm ET.
Gekko Brief
AI summaryWEC Energy trades at $103.17, down 1.5% on the day and sitting below both its 50-day average of $109.05 and 200-day average of $111.45, with the stock recently touching a 52-week low of $102.94. Over the past month shares are off 5.6%, and the three- and six-month returns show declines of 8% and 10.8%. The GekkoIndex reads 69.4, placing WEC in the Accumulation zone, while the price sits 13.4% below Gekko Fair Value of $119.15.
This week's coverage centers on WEC's slide to a fresh 52-week low near $102.94, alongside a note that the stock maintains a 3.62% dividend yield and has raised its dividend for 22 consecutive years. Separate coverage compared WEC against PG&E (PCG) as a value option within the electric utility sector. A 13F filing also showed Corient Private Wealth LP increasing its WEC stake by 68.0%, adding 76,784 shares for a total of 189,670 shares.
Looking ahead, WEC's next earnings report is scheduled for 29 October 2026, 39 days out and beyond a typical 20-trading-day holding window. The company has beaten estimates in 7 of the last 8 quarters, with the last report on 29 July showing $0.91 per share against an $0.80 estimate, followed by a 3.1% price reaction. Full-year guidance was reiterated at $5.51 to $5.61 per share. Seasonality over the next 20 trading days has averaged a 2.5% decline across 5 years, rising in only 2 of them, a pattern worth noting alongside the current gap to Gekko Fair Value.
Written by AI and checked automatically against the figures on this page. Generated Sep 20, 2026 from the data above.
Price vs fair value
Close $103.17200-day averageGekko Fair Value $119.15
Key stats
- Market cap
- $33.61B
- P/E ratio
- 20
- Forward P/E
- 17.5
- EPS, TTM
- $5.15
- Revenue, TTM
- $10.14B
- Profit margin
- 16.7%
- Dividend yield
- 3.52%
- Beta
- 0.46
- Volume
- 4.33M avg 2.28M
- 1-year return
- −5.6%
- Typical daily move
- ±1.6%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±3.5%
- 50-day average
- $109.05
- 200-day average
- $111.45
- Next earnings
- Oct 29
- Shares outstanding
- 325.8M
WEC Energy swing-trade checklist
WEC Energy scores 3 supportive, 0 mixed and 2 headwinds across the 5 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
3 supportive0 mixed2 headwinds
- Trendheadwind
Below 50 and 200-day
Close $103.17 is below the 50-day ($109.05) and 200-day ($111.45) averages, and the 50-day is below the 200-day.
See the chart - GekkoIndexsupportive
69.4, Accumulation
Reading 69.4 is in the Accumulation zone.
See the GekkoIndex - Fair valuesupportive
13.4% below
Price is 13.4% below Gekko Fair Value (more than 5% below).
See fair value - Smart moneyno data
No data
No insider, Congress or unusual options activity in the window.
See smart money - Earnings risksupportive
Reports in 39 days
Next report Oct 29, 2026, 39 days away — outside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings - Seasonalityheadwind
−2.5% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged −2.5% over 5 years, rising in 2 of them.
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WEC Energy stock chart and price history
WEC Energy closed at $103.17 on Sep 18, 2026, −5.6% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $102.86 to $119.91.
Close50-day average200-day averageVolume
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Performance Breakdown
- 1 month
- −5.6%
- 3 months
- −8.0%
- 6 months
- −10.8%
- 1 year
- −5.6%
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About WEC Energy
WEC Energy provides households and businesses across the United States with natural gas and electric service, covering both regulated utility supply and renewable energy work that falls outside standard rate regulation. Power reaches customers through a generation mix that draws on coal, natural gas, oil, hydropower, wind, solar and biomass. Alongside generating electricity, the company carries it over transmission lines, moves and delivers natural gas to retail users, and also produces and markets steam.
Its operations fall under six segments: Wisconsin, Illinois, Other States, Electric Transmission, Non-Utility Energy Infrastructure, and Corporate and Other. Delivering this service depends on a large physical footprint, including tens of thousands of miles of overhead and buried electric lines backed by hundreds of substations and hundreds of thousands of transformers, plus a comparably sized network of gas distribution and transmission pipe, millions of individual gas hookups, numerous gate stations, and underground storage sites holding a large volume of working gas.
WEC Energy dates back to 1981 and was called Wisconsin Energy Corporation before switching to its current name in June 2015. The company is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and trades on the NYSE under the ticker WEC.
- Listed
- NYSE
- Sector
- Utilities
- Industry
- Electric utilities
- Website
- wecenergygroup.com
WEC Energy GekkoIndex: the smart money zone
WEC Energy’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 69.4, in the Accumulation zone, up 4.1 points over five sessions.
69.4Accumulation
Up 4.1 points over five sessions.
Reading for Sep 18, 2026
What followed past readings in each zone
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buying | 32 | +1.3% | +0.8% | ||
| Accumulation (current zone) | 215 | +0.4% | +2.1% | ||
| Neutral | 401 | +0.1% | +0.5% | ||
| Distribution | 13 | −0.1% | +2.0% | ||
| Selling | 1 | Too few readings yet | |||
Average WEC share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Accumulation readings averaged +2.3% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.
Accumulation zone: Institutional interest building. About the five zones →
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Is WEC Energy stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value
WEC Energy trades 13.4% below Gekko Fair Value of $119.15, so the shares are undervalued on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what WEC Energy shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$119.15
Gekko Fair Value, Sep 19, 2026
13.4% Undervalued
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WEC Energy insider and Congress trading
No open-market insider purchases were filed for WEC Energy, and no Congress trades were disclosed, in the last 90 days.
Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.
Congress trades last 90 days
No trades in WEC were disclosed by members of Congress in the last 90 days.
From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.
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Buybacks
WEC Energy has been buying back its own shares.
- Bought back, quarter ended Mar 31, 2025
- $1.30M
- As a share of market cap
- 0.00%
From company filings.
WEC Energy earnings: next date and track record
WEC Energy reports on Oct 29, 2026 (39 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 7 of its last 8 reports.
Next earnings report
Oct 29, 2026
39 days away
- EPS estimate
- $0.91
- Revenue estimate
- $2.20B
7 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±1.4%average move across the report
3 of 8reports followed by a gain
Share-price move across each report
Last earnings call, Jul 29, 2026 AI summary
- What they said
- WEC Energy Group reported Q2 2026 earnings of $0.91 per share, up $0.15 year-over-year. Management emphasized execution, financial discipline, and operating efficiency, and reiterated full-year 2026 EPS guidance of $5.51 to $5.61 (assuming normal weather). Key growth drivers discussed were accelerated regional economic development—particularly large data center demand from Microsoft, Vantage (Oracle), and potential additional hyperscaler customers—transmission investments (ATC line), and energy infrastructure improvements. The company highlighted grid-based growth, incremental AFUDC equity, sales growth, tax benefits, and energy infrastructure gains (including insurance recovery and absence of prior-year impairments) as contributors to the quarter’s performance. Management noted some headwinds including weather impacts, higher depreciation and O&M, and workforce constraints on certain programs (e.g., Illinois pipe program). Legal and regulatory matters were discussed at length: Oracle has filed a legal challenge related to collateral requirements for very large customer (VLC) arrangements, but management expressed confidence the active projects (Port Washington/Vantage site) remain on time and on budget, and that tariff protections and collateral requirements are robust. Management also discussed capital plan funding (comfortable with ATM program and considering other options), dividend policy (board increased dividend 6.7%, targeting 6.5%-7% annual growth), potential generation capacity choices (including gas combined-cycle options and long-term consideration of nuclear), and timing for decisions (Point Beach/generation to be addressed on the Q3 call).
- Guidance
- Reiterated full-year 2026 EPS guidance of $5.51 to $5.61 per share (assumes normal weather). Dividend increased by 6.7% and management targets dividend growth of 6.5%–7%. Expectation that full-year weather-normalized electric sales (excluding iron ore mine and VLC customers) will be relatively flat with 2025. Management to finalize Point Beach/generation decision on the Q3 call. Comfortable raising ~$1.1B via ATM program in 2026; targeting approximately 50% equity for incremental projects (guidance around financing strategy).
- Risks flagged
- Legal challenge from Oracle over VLC collateral requirements; potential political/regulatory risk in Wisconsin including possible data center moratorium proposals; workforce and labor constraints affecting project execution (noted in Illinois pipe program); weather variability impacting short-term results; potential credit rating concerns and collateral requirements for customers; pending approvals (e.g., ATC transmission filing) and timing risks; uncertainty over longer-term generation choices and potential supply-chain/timing impacts for capital projects.
| Reported | EPS | Revenue | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 2026 | $0.91 est $0.80 | $2.06B est $2.11B | −3.1% |
| May 5, 2026 | $2.45 est $2.30 | $3.43B est $3.32B | −2.1% |
| Feb 5, 2026 | $1.42 est $1.39 | $2.54B est $2.14B | −1.7% |
| Oct 30, 2025 | $0.83 est $0.81 | $2.10B est $1.89B | −2.5% |
| Jul 30, 2025 | $0.76 est $0.71 | $2.01B est $1.77B | +0.4% |
| May 6, 2025 | $2.27 est $2.18 | $3.15B est $2.78B | +0.8% |
| Feb 4, 2025 | $1.43 est $1.43 | $2.28B est $2.56B | +0.4% |
| Oct 31, 2024 | $0.76 est $0.70 | $1.86B est $1.93B | −0.5% |
“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.
WEC Energy stock forecast and analyst price targets
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for WEC Energy is $121.62, +17.9% from the last close, from 11 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.
$121.62consensus 12-month target, +17.9% from the last close
Now $103.17Avg $121.62
Low $108High $140
Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 11 firms.
Latest analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Target | vs price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17 | Bank of America Securities | $121 | +17.3% |
| Aug 27 | KeyBanc | $117 | +13.4% |
| Aug 17 | Truist Financial | $114 | +10.5% |
| Aug 4 | Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. | $110.50 | +7.1% |
| Jul 30 | Truist Financial | — | — |
+2.1%average 20-day move after past Accumulation readings
−2.5%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±1.6%typical daily move, from the 14-day average range
Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.
WEC Energy seasonality: the next 20 trading days
Over the next 20 trading days from Sep 19, WEC Energy averaged −2.5% across the last 5 years, rising in 2 of them.
Next 20 trading days, by year
Average move and hit rate
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | −2.4% | 1 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | −3.4% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | −4.4% | 1 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | −2.5% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | −3.0% | 2 of 5 |
For scale, WEC’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 3.5%.
WEC Energy market cap and key statistics
WEC Energy’s market cap is $33.61B, with a P/E ratio of 20 and revenue of $10.14B over the last twelve months.
Valuation
- Market cap
- $33.61B
- P/E ratio
- 20
- Forward P/E
- 17.5
- EPS, TTM
- $5.15
- Gekko Fair Value
- $119.15
Trading
- Volume
- 4.33M
- Avg volume, 20 days
- 2.28M
- 52-week high
- $119.91
- 52-week low
- $102.86
- Shares outstanding
- 325.8M
Financials
- Revenue, TTM
- $10.14B
- Profit margin
- 16.7%
- Return on equity
- 12%
- Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
- +19.7%
Risk and income
- Beta
- 0.46
- Typical daily move
- ±1.6%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±3.5%
- Dividend yield
- 3.52%
WEC Energy stock news this week
3 headlines about WEC Energy from the past week, newest first, each linking to the publisher.
- WEC Energy Group stock hits 52-week low at 102.94 USDInvesting.com, Sep 16
- PCG vs. WEC: Which Stock Is the Better Value Option?Zacks Investment Research, Sep 15
- Corient Private Wealth LP Raises Stake in WEC Energy Group, Inc. $WECDefense World, Sep 15
WEC Energy peers
WEC Energy’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.
| Stock | GekkoIndex zone | vs Fair Value |
|---|---|---|
| NEENextEra Energy | Buying | 23.4% below |
| SOSouthern | Buying | 8.1% above |
| DUKDuke Energy | Accumulation | 14.0% above |
| CEGConstellation Energy | Accumulation | 2.8% below |
| AEPAmerican Electric Power | Buying | 3.7% above |
| DDominion Energy | Accumulation | 8.5% below |
A peer links to its own page where one exists.
WEC Energy stock FAQ
What is WEC Energy’s market cap?
WEC Energy’s market cap is $33.61B at the Sep 18, 2026 close of $103.17, with 325.8M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 20.
What is the WEC Energy stock forecast?
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for WEC Energy is $121.62, +17.9% from the last close. Of the 11 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 3 rate it a buy, 7 a hold and 1 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
Is WEC Energy stock overvalued or undervalued?
On Gekko’s estimate WEC Energy is undervalued: the Sep 18, 2026 close of $103.17 is 13.4% below Gekko Fair Value of $119.15. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
When does WEC Energy report earnings next?
WEC Energy is expected to report on Oct 29, 2026 (39 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $0.91 per share on revenue of $2.20B. WEC Energy beat the earnings estimate in 7 of its last 8 reports, moving 1.4% on average across the report.
What is WEC Energy’s 52-week high and low?
WEC Energy’s 52-week high is $119.91 and its 52-week low is $102.86; it closed at $103.17 on Sep 18, 2026, −5.6% over the past year.
Is WEC Energy stock a buy right now?
Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 3 of the 5 items with data read as supportive (gekkoindex, fair value and earnings risk) and 2 as headwinds (trend and seasonality). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.
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