DUK — Duke Energy Corporation
Utilities · Utilities - Regulated Electric
About Duke Energy Corporation
Duke Energy Corporation, through its subsidiaries, operates as an energy company in the United States. The company operates through two segments: Electric Utilities and Infrastructure (EU&I); and Gas Utilities and Infrastructure (GU&I). The EU&I segment generates, transmits, distributes, and sells electricity to customers in the Southeast and Midwest regions. It generates electricity through coal, hydroelectric, natural gas, oil, renewables, and nuclear fuel. This segment also engages in the wholesale of electricity to municipalities, electric cooperative utilities, and other load-serving entities. The GU&I segment distributes natural gas to customers in the residential, commercial, industrial, and power generation natural gas sectors; and invests in pipeline transmission projects, renewable natural gas projects, and natural gas storage facilities. The company was formerly known as Duke Energy Holding Corp. and changed its name to Duke Energy Corporation in April 2006. Duke Energy Corporation was founded in 1904 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Power producers & utilities
One bucket, two very different business models. Regulated utilities (Duke, Southern, Dominion, PSEG, Entergy) earn a government-set return on the grid they build; they are slow, defensive and rate-sensitive — bond-like stocks funding big capital programs. Independent power producers (Vistra, NRG, Talen) sell electricity at market prices, so tightening power markets flow straight into their earnings — which is why the IPPs re-rated violently when data-center demand met a grid short on capacity, while the regulated names barely moved. Know which model you own before reading a chart here: the IPPs trade like growth stocks with commodity torque, the utilities like interest-rate instruments with a capex story. Duke is a classic regulated utility across the US Southeast, spending heavily on grid upgrades and new generation.
Key data · delayed ~15 min, as of 1 August 2026
| Ticker | DUK |
| Company | Duke Energy Corporation |
| Price | $125.43 |
| Market cap | $97.8B |
| Sector / industry | Utilities / Utilities - Regulated Electric |
| Analyst mean target | $139 (19 analysts, buy) |
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What the price implies: the market is pricing in roughly ~4%/yr earnings growth (modest), on a reverse-DCF of forward earnings ($7.17). Run your own assumptions in the fair-value calculator.
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