S&P 500 Utilities stocks: today's ranking and data
The S&P 500 has 31 companies in Utilities today. It accounts for 2.0% of the market value of the index companies. Its median P/E is 20.8, against 23.7 for the index as a whole.
What Utilities is and what drives its earnings
What it includes. Regulated electric utilities that generate, transmit and distribute power, gas and water distributors, groups that combine several of those, and independent power producers that sell electricity on the wholesale market.
What drives its earnings. For regulated utilities, the return each state regulator allows them to earn on what they have invested in the grid: they grow by investing and getting that investment into their rates. For independent producers, wholesale power prices. For all of them, electricity demand, where data centers weigh more and more, and the cost of their debt, which is large.
How it behaves. Steady earnings, heavy debt and high, regular dividends: that is why utilities are compared with bonds and tend to suffer when interest rates rise. They are usually counted among the most defensive sectors of the index.
The classification is the one used by this site's data provider, similar to but not the same as GICS, S&P's standard: this sector roughly matches "Utilities". Counts may therefore differ from other sources.
All 31 stocks in the sector, by today's multi-factor rank
The rank is the order produced by a quantitative model on data as of Nov 3, 2026: the average of four factors (momentum, value, quality and growth) computed from public data, against the 461 index companies that score. It is a calculation, not a recommendation to buy or sell: it knows nothing about anyone's situation, horizon or risk, and the returns of portfolios built with it are simulated. How it is computed: see the methodology.
| In sector | Index rank | Company | P/E | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 53 of 461 | AES AES | 6.0 | $10.63B |
| 2 | 125 of 461 | EIX Edison International | 6.5 | $23.39B |
| 3 | 213 of 461 | PNW Pinnacle West Capital | 20.0 | $12.84B |
| 4 | 228 of 461 | CEG Constellation Energy | 23.5 | $85.56B |
| 5 | 256 of 461 | ED Consolidated Edison | 19.8 | $44.55B |
| 6 | 281 of 461 | D Dominion Energy | 22.9 | $61.16B |
| 7 | 291 of 461 | NEE NextEra Energy | 15.9 | $184.84B |
| 8 | 302 of 461 | PCG PG&E | 9.9 | $40.31B |
| 9 | 303 of 461 | ES Eversource Energy | 18.4 | $26.79B |
| 10 | 306 of 461 | CNP CenterPoint Energy | 23.7 | $27.30B |
| 11 | 315 of 461 | AEP American Electric Power | 20.7 | $69.12B |
| 12 | 319 of 461 | EVRG Evergy | 21.8 | $19.78B |
| 13 | 322 of 461 | LNT Alliant Energy | 20.5 | $19.11B |
| 14 | 330 of 461 | ETR Entergy | 25.0 | $52.29B |
| 15 | 332 of 461 | NI NiSource | 23.1 | $21.56B |
| 16 | 334 of 461 | AWK American Water Works | 25.6 | $29.42B |
| 17 | 349 of 461 | ATO Atmos Energy | 20.8 | $29.53B |
| 18 | 350 of 461 | AEE Ameren | 19.8 | $31.17B |
| 19 | 372 of 461 | EXC Exelon | 18.1 | $47.86B |
| 20 | 376 of 461 | PPL PPL | 21.2 | $26.93B |
| 21 | 386 of 461 | PEG Public Service Enterprise | 20.7 | $36.62B |
| 22 | 395 of 461 | DUK Duke Energy | 19.6 | $101.24B |
| 23 | 400 of 461 | WEC WEC Energy | 21.4 | $38.76B |
| 24 | 403 of 461 | XEL Xcel Energy | 18.7 | $51.53B |
| 25 | 416 of 461 | FE FirstEnergy | 22.8 | $27.35B |
| 26 | 425 of 461 | DTE DTE Energy | 21.5 | $28.26B |
| 27 | 426 of 461 | SO Southern | 22.3 | $106.24B |
| 28 | 433 of 461 | SRE Sempra | 23.8 | $53.79B |
| 29 | 439 of 461 | CMS CMS Energy | 25.4 | $22.30B |
| 30 | 440 of 461 | NRG NRG Energy | 21.8 | $17.44B |
| 31 | 443 of 461 | VST Vistra | 20.2 | $40.15B |
"—" under P/E: no positive P/E (negative trailing earnings or missing at the source). The full S&P 500 ranking →
Utilities P/E against the index
| Median P/E | Companies with a positive P/E | |
|---|---|---|
| Utilities | 20.8 | 31 of 31 |
| S&P 500 | 23.7 | 474 of 500 |
The median is the company in the middle: a few firms with near-zero earnings and huge P/Es do not move it, which is what happens to the average. Loss-making companies have no P/E and are left out.
Guide: P/E ratio explained · all guides
The 10 largest in the sector by market cap
| # | Company | Market cap | Weight in sector | Rank today |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NEE NextEra Energy | $184.84B | 13.3% | 291 |
| 2 | SO Southern | $106.24B | 7.7% | 426 |
| 3 | DUK Duke Energy | $101.24B | 7.3% | 395 |
| 4 | CEG Constellation Energy | $85.56B | 6.2% | 228 |
| 5 | AEP American Electric Power | $69.12B | 5.0% | 315 |
| 6 | D Dominion Energy | $61.16B | 4.4% | 281 |
| 7 | SRE Sempra | $53.79B | 3.9% | 433 |
| 8 | ETR Entergy | $52.29B | 3.8% | 330 |
| 9 | XEL Xcel Energy | $51.53B | 3.7% | 403 |
| 10 | EXC Exelon | $47.86B | 3.4% | 372 |
Total market value (price times shares outstanding), without the float adjustment S&P applies: the weight is indicative. Companies with two share classes count once.
Insider buying and selling in the last 30 days
From Oct 4, 2026 to Nov 3, 2026, no open-market purchases and 10 sales ($10.3M), filed on SEC Form 4 by directors, officers and 10% owners of 8 companies in the sector. Counted by trade date; grants, option exercises and transfers between the same insider's accounts are left out.
| Company | Buys | Amount | Sales | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VST Vistra | 0 | — | 2 | $6.9M |
| NI NiSource | 0 | — | 2 | $2.1M |
| NEE NextEra Energy | 0 | — | 1 | $585k |
| DUK Duke Energy | 0 | — | 1 | $371k |
| PPL PPL | 0 | — | 1 | $190k |
| PEG Public Service Enterprise | 0 | — | 1 | $153k |
| EIX Edison International | 0 | — | 1 | $28k |
| SO Southern | 0 | — | 1 | $9k |
Upcoming earnings dates
Dates announced by the companies themselves, from Nasdaq's public calendar (between Nov 4, 2026 and Dec 8, 2026). They are announcements, not measured dates: each company's SEC history is on its earnings page.
| Date | Company | When |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 4, 2026 | ATO Atmos Energy | after the close |
| Nov 4, 2026 | ES Eversource Energy | after the close |
| Nov 5, 2026 | AEE Ameren | after the close |
| Nov 5, 2026 | DTE DTE Energy | before the open |
| Nov 5, 2026 | DUK Duke Energy | before the open |
| Nov 5, 2026 | ED Consolidated Edison | after the close |
| Nov 5, 2026 | EVRG Evergy | before the open |
| Nov 5, 2026 | SO Southern | before the open |
| Nov 5, 2026 | SRE Sempra | before the open |
| Nov 6, 2026 | PPL PPL | before the open |
| Nov 6, 2026 | VST Vistra | before the open |
| Nov 9, 2026 | CEG Constellation Energy | before the open |
| Nov 9, 2026 | NRG NRG Energy | before the open |
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Dividend yields in Utilities and across the S&P 500 →
Sources: sector classification, market cap and P/E from the market-data provider (Yahoo Finance), as of the latest close downloaded; Quant500 multi-factor ranking of Nov 3, 2026; SEC Form 4 (EDGAR); Nasdaq public calendar. P/E is trailing twelve months and the median is taken per company, not per share class. Not investment advice.