NextEra Energy Inc (NEE): Today's Featured Utilities Winner

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NextEra Energy (NEE) pushed the Utilities sector higher today making it today's featured utilities winner. The sector as a whole closed the day up 0.7%. By the end of trading, NextEra Energy rose 86 cents (1.3%) to $67.35 on average volume. Throughout the day, 1.6 million shares of NextEra Energy exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.8 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $66.37-$67.44 after having opened the day at $66.57 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $66.49. Other companies within the Utilities sector that increased today were: Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora No (EDN), up 6.3%, Atlas Energy (ATLS), up 5.3%, Basic Sanitation Company of the State of Sa (SBS), up 4.9%, and Targa Resources (TRGP), up 4.8%.

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NextEra Energy, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the generation, transmission, distribution, and sale of electric energy in the United States and Canada. The company is involved in the generation of renewable energy from wind and solar projects. NextEra Energy has a market cap of $28.22 billion and is part of the utilities industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 13, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 9.2% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are 12 analysts that rate NextEra Energy a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and six rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates NextEra Energy as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, increase in net income, good cash flow from operations and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.

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