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Portland General's Investment Plan Keeps Growing, Boosting Earnings
With its expanding customer base, clean energy requirements, and increasingly supportive regulation, Portland General Electric continues to find plenty of growth opportunities.
Portland General Electric Co POR
Bulls Say, Bears Say
Bulls
Management continues to find areas to invest in system upgrades, renewable energy, and energy storage with strong political and regulatory support.
Bears
Fluctuations in purchased power costs could mean lower profits for shareholders, even with the company's power cost adjustment mechanism.
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News
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PGE joins Grid United and ALLETE in 3,000 megawatt east-west transmission line
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Portland General Electric Announces First Quarter 2024 Results
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Portland General Electric declares dividend
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Portland General Electric schedules earnings release and conference call for Friday, April 26
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Portland General Electric announces intent to join CAISO EDAM regional energy market to benefit customers, environment
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This fund's active management has worked well through a rough stock-market cycle
Trading Information
- Previous Close Price
- $42.76
- Day Range
- $42.32–42.74
- 52-Week Range
- $38.01–49.72
- Bid/Ask
- $41.89 / $47.04
- Market Cap
- $4.40 Bil
- Volume/Avg
- 679,386 / 947,394
Key Statistics
- Price/Earnings (Normalized)
- 18.88
- Price/Sales
- 1.38
- Dividend Yield (Trailing)
- 4.45%
- Dividend Yield (Forward)
- 4.69%
- Total Yield
- 4.45%
Company Profile
Portland General Electric is a regulated electric utility providing generation, transmission, and distribution services in a service territory that includes about half of all Oregon residents and two thirds of the state's business activity. The company owns (wholly or through joint ventures) 3.5 gigawatts of gas, coal, wind, and hydro generation.
- Sector
- Utilities
- Industry
- Utilities - Regulated Electric
- Stock Style Box
- Small Value
- Total Number of Employees
- 2,842
- Website
- https://www.portlandgeneral.com
Competitors
Valuation
|
Metric
|
POR
|
PCG
|
EIX
|
|---|---|---|---|
Price/Earnings (Normalized) | 18.88 | 13.93 | 15.25 |
Price/Book Value | 1.27 | 1.85 | 2.08 |
Price/Sales | 1.38 | 1.62 | 1.71 |
Price/Cash Flow | 6.02 | 6.84 | 7.74 |
Price/Earnings
POR
PCG
EIX
Financial Strength
|
Metric
|
POR
|
PCG
|
EIX
|
|---|---|---|---|
Quick Ratio | 0.66 | 0.78 | 0.46 |
Current Ratio | 1.22 | 0.99 | 1.00 |
Interest Coverage | 2.71 | 1.21 | 1.47 |
Quick Ratio
POR
PCG
EIX
Profitability
|
Metric
|
POR
|
PCG
|
EIX
|
|---|---|---|---|
Return on Assets (Normalized) | 2.27% | 3.00% | 1.19% |
Return on Equity (Normalized) | 7.48% | 15.18% | 7.02% |
Return on Invested Capital (Normalized) | 5.33% | 6.82% | 3.94% |
Return on Assets
POR
PCG
EIX
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