Exelon Corp. (NASDAQ:EXC) saw an upside of 0.22% to close Monday at $40.30 after adding $0.09 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 4,693,760 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $41.48 in the past week and touched a new high 1 time within the past 5 days. An average of 4,711,895 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 5,123,222.
The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $35.19 and high of $44.37, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 01/09/23. YTD, EXC has lost -6.78% or -$2.93 and has reached a new high 3 times. However, the current price is down -9.16% from the 52-week high price.
Insider Transactions
EXC stock investors last saw insider trading activity on Mar 17.Khouzami Carim V (CEO Baltimore Gas & Elec.) most recently sold 6,000 shares at $41.65 per share on Mar 17. This transaction cost the insider $249,900.
Valuation Metrics
EXC stock has a beta of 0.54. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 2.02 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 1.60.
Exelon Corp.’s quick ratio for the period ended June 29 was 0.86, with the current ratio over the same period at 0.95. As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending June 29 was 1.59, while the total debt to equity was 1.70. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 24.70%. The trailing 12-month EBITDA margin is 36.08% while for the period ending June 29, Exelon Corp.’s operating margin was 17.73%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $3.31 billion against revenue of $19.08 billion.
Earnings Surprise
For the quarterly period ending June 29 this year, Net income and sales went down compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Net income shrunk -74.05% to $343.0 million, while revenue of $669.0 million was -95.04% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected EXC to announce $0.4 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted $0.41, representing a 2.50% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $1.57 billion. EXC stock balance sheet for the quarter ending June 29 shows that total liabilities totaled 73.0 billion, with total debt at $42.62 billion. Shareholders hold equity totaling $995.22 million.
Let’s look briefly at Exelon Corp. (EXC) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 25 September was 41.65% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 14.79%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $40.57, reflecting a -2.87% or -$1.19 change from its current price. EXC is currently trading unch above its 20-day SMA, -5.33% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by -4.09% and SMA200 by-5.99%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 36.19% and 44.85% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 0.62. The RSI (14) points at 45.25%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 30.91% with the period’s ATR at 0.62. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -0.67 and -0.47 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for Exelon Corp. (NASDAQ: EXC), Barclays launched coverage with an Overweight rating. Analysts offering their rating for EXC stock have a consensus rating for the stock as Overweight. Currently, 1 brokerage advisors rate EXC as a “sell,”, while 6 advise that investors “Hold.” 0 analysts have rated the stock as underweight. 1 rates the stock as overweight while 11 have offered a “buy” rating.
What is EXC’s price target for the next 12 months?
Analysts have a consensus price target ranging from a low of $39.00 and a high of $48.00, with their median price target at $45.00. Looking at these predictions, the average price target given by analysts is for Exelon Corp. (EXC) stock is $44.57.
