Calpine Corp (CPN): Today's Featured Utilities Winner

Calpine was a winner within the utilities sector, rising 20 cents (1.1%) to $17.80 on average volume.
By TheStreet Wire ,

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Calpine

(

CPN

) pushed the Utilities sector higher today making it today's featured utilities winner. The sector as a whole closed the day up 0.3%. By the end of trading, Calpine rose 20 cents (1.1%) to $17.80 on average volume. Throughout the day, 3.8 million shares of Calpine exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 3.3 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $17.56-$17.94 after having opened the day at $17.73 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $17.60. Other companies within the Utilities sector that increased today were:

China Hydroelectric Corporation

(

CHC

), up 33.1%,

Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora No

(

EDN

), up 7.9%,

Korea Electric Power

(

KEP

), up 6.6%, and

Ellomay Capital

(

ELLO

), up 6.4%.

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Calpine Corporation, an independent wholesale power generation company, owns and operates natural gas-fired and geothermal power plants in North America. It operates natural gas-fired combustion turbines and renewable geothermal conventional steam turbines, as well as cogeneration power plants. Calpine has a market cap of $8.28 billion and is part of the utilities industry. The company has a P/E ratio of -50.7, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 8.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are eight analysts that rate Calpine a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and three rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Calpine as a

sell

. The company's weaknesses can be seen in multiple areas, such as its unimpressive growth in net income, generally high debt management risk, weak operating cash flow and feeble growth in its earnings per share.

On the negative front,

Transportadora de Gas del Sur

(

TGS

), down 8.1%,

Pure Cycle Corporation

(

PCYO

), down 3.2%,

Public Service Enterprise Group

(

PEG

), down 2.8%, and

GreenHunter Energy

(

GRH

), down 2.6%, were all laggards within the utilities sector with

Exelon

(

EXC

) being today's utilities sector laggard.

For investors not wanting singular stock exposure, ETFs may be of interest. Investors who are bullish on the utilities sector could consider

Utilities Select Sector SPDR

(

XLU

) while those bearish on the utilities sector could consider

ProShares UltraShort Utilities

(

SDP

).

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