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Our current read (analysis of 2026-08-23): Designation Watch · Gem Score -11 (−100…+100 Quality+Value blend) · Quality -7 · Value -14 · Sentiment -7 (timing only, not weighted) · Composite fair value $46.84 vs $45.33 at analysis
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Exelon Corporation
EXC NASDAQExelon Corporation is a utility services holding company focused on energy distribution and transmission in the United States. The company operates through a portfolio of fully regulated electric and natural gas utilities, including Commonwealth Edison Company, PECO Energy Company, Baltimore Gas and Electric Company, Potomac Electric Power Company, Delmarva Power and Light Company, and Atlantic City Electric Company. These utilities deliver electricity and gas to residential, commercial, industrial, and public sector customers across Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, and Washington, D.C., serving one of the largest customer bases in the U.S. utility sector. Exelon Corporation’s core activities center on reliable grid operations, transmission and distribution infrastructure, and customer-focused energy services. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, it plays a significant role in regional energy markets by ensuring dependable power delivery, supporting grid resilience, and providing essential services that underpin economic activity and everyday life for millions of end users.
Price Overview
Price History (1 Year)
Revenue & Net Income Trend
| Period | Revenue | Net Income | Net Margin | YoY/QoQ |
|---|
Key Metrics
EPS (Diluted): 2.74
Total Equity: $28.80B
Shares: 1,012,000,000
Total Debt: $51.09B
Cash: $626.00M
EBITDA: $8.19B
Total Debt: $51.09B
Cash: $626.00M
Revenue: $24.26B
Revenue: $24.26B
Revenue: $24.26B
Total Equity: $28.80B
Tax Rate: 15.9%
Equity: $28.80B
Total Debt: $51.09B
Cash: $626.00M
Current Liabilities: $10.33B
Long-Term Debt: $49.43B
Total Debt: $51.09B
Total Equity: $28.80B
Shares: 1,012,000,000
Shares: 1,012,000,000
CapEx: -$8.53B
Shares: 1,012,000,000
Stock Price: $45.31
Net Income: $2.77B
Industry Benchmarks
Income Statement (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 19, 2026 12:46pm (4d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $36.3B | $19.1B | $21.7B | $23.0B | $24.3B |
| Cost of Revenue | — | — | — | — | — |
| Gross Profit | — | — | — | — | — |
| Operating Expenses | $33.8B | $15.8B | $17.7B | $18.7B | $19.1B |
| Operating Income | $2.7B | $3.3B | $4.0B | $4.3B | $5.1B |
| Net Income | $1.8B | $2.2B | $2.3B | $2.5B | $2.8B |
| EBITDA | $8.1B | $5.8B | $6.8B | $7.2B | $8.2B |
| EPS | $1.74 | $2.20 | $2.34 | $2.45 | $2.74 |
| EPS (Diluted) | $1.74 | $2.20 | $2.34 | $2.45 | $2.74 |
Balance Sheet (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 19, 2026 12:23am (4d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | $1.2B | $407.0M | $445.0M | $357.0M | $626.0M |
| Total Current Assets | $14.0B | $7.3B | $7.8B | $8.4B | $9.5B |
| Total Assets | $133.0B | $95.3B | $101.5B | $107.8B | $116.6B |
| Current Liabilities | $16.1B | $10.6B | $9.6B | $9.6B | $10.3B |
| Long-Term Debt | $38.8B | $37.2B | $41.3B | $44.7B | $49.4B |
| Total Liabilities | $98.2B | $70.6B | $75.8B | $80.9B | $87.8B |
| Total Equity | $34.8B | $24.7B | $25.8B | $26.9B | $28.8B |
| Retained Earnings | $16.9B | $4.6B | $5.5B | $6.4B | $7.6B |
Cash Flow (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 19, 2026 12:46pm (4d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Cash Flow | $3.0B | $4.9B | $4.7B | $5.6B | $6.3B |
| Capital Expenditure | -$8.0B | -$7.1B | -$7.4B | -$7.1B | -$8.5B |
| Free Cash Flow | -$5.0B | -$2.3B | -$2.7B | -$1.5B | -$2.3B |
| Acquisitions (net) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Net Debt Issued / (Repaid) | $1.8B | $4.2B | $4.1B | $3.4B | $4.8B |
| Dividends Paid | -$1.5B | -$1.3B | -$1.4B | -$1.5B | -$1.6B |
| Stock Buybacks | — | — | — | — | — |
| Net Change in Cash | — | — | — | — | — |
Growth Trends (YoY %)
Last updated: Aug 19, 2026 12:46pm (4d ago)| Metric | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue Growth | -47.5% | +13.9% | +6.0% | +5.3% |
| Gross Profit Growth | — | — | — | — |
| Operating Income Growth | +21.7% | +21.4% | +7.4% | +19.2% |
| Net Income Growth | +18.7% | +7.2% | +5.7% | +12.5% |
| EBITDA Growth | -28.1% | +16.8% | +6.3% | +13.3% |
Dividend History (Last 20)
Last updated: Aug 19, 2026 12:46pm (4d ago)| Date | Dividend | Declaration | Record | Payment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-04 | $0.42 | — | — | — |
| 2026-06-04 | $0.42 | — | — | — |
| 2026-03-02 | $0.42 | — | — | — |
| 2025-11-10 | $0.40 | — | — | — |
| 2025-08-11 | $0.40 | — | — | — |
| 2025-05-12 | $0.40 | — | — | — |
| 2025-02-24 | $0.40 | — | — | — |
| 2024-11-08 | $0.38 | — | — | — |
| 2024-08-12 | $0.38 | — | — | — |
| 2024-05-10 | $0.38 | — | — | — |
| 2024-03-01 | $0.38 | — | — | — |
| 2023-11-14 | $0.36 | — | — | — |
| 2023-08-14 | $0.36 | — | — | — |
| 2023-05-12 | $0.36 | — | — | — |
| 2023-02-24 | $0.36 | — | — | — |
| 2022-11-14 | $0.34 | — | — | — |
| 2022-08-12 | $0.34 | — | — | — |
| 2022-05-12 | $0.34 | — | — | — |
| 2022-02-24 | $0.34 | — | — | — |
| 2021-11-12 | $0.27 | — | — | — |
Deep Analysis
Risk : Reward — if the last quarter repeats
Live · as of 2026-08-19 12:59Recovery pays +65%; another quarter like the worst recent one costs 24%. Ratio 2.7:1.
| Case | Growth | Margin | Fair value | vs price ($45.33) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bull — recovery | +12% | 18.0% | $74.61 | +65% |
| Base — stabilizes | +8% | 15.7% | $57.79 | +27% |
| Bear — keeps slipping | +4% | 13.3% | $43.81 | -3% |
| Stress — last quarter repeats | -1% | 12.3% | $34.46 | -24% |
Narrative Economics
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AI Lens 4th lens · how AI reaches this business · 5-yr
2026-08-19AI compute demand is a load-growth event in northern Illinois, Maryland and the Philadelphia/DC corridors, converting into interconnection, substation and transmission capital that earns an allowed return — rate base growth is Exelon's only real earnings engine, and AI feeds it.
The same AI load pushes PJM capacity and energy costs into customer bills; affordability backlash in Illinois, Maryland and New Jersey historically lands on the wires company as lower allowed ROE, thinner equity layers and rejected capital plans, even though Exelon does not own generation.
Exclusive franchised distribution territory, energized rights-of-way, interconnection queue position and transformer/equipment supply slots — none of which cheap software can manufacture.
AI Lens thesis
Exelon is a pure wires monopoly with no commodity margin, so AI does not threaten its product; it changes the size of the pipe. The transmission mechanism is: AI-driven data-center interconnection requests → approved capital plans → rate base → regulated earnings, with a secondary channel where AI trims O&M (outage prediction, vegetation, call centers, field dispatch) and the savings mostly flow to ratepayers at the next rate case but temporarily lift earned versus allowed ROE and, more importantly, create headroom to spend more capital inside a fixed affordability envelope. The binding constraint is not technology or competition but the regulator's willingness to fund AI-era grid buildout and the equity Exelon must issue to finance persistently negative free cash flow.
What the market may be underestimating
Upside If hyperscaler load is large enough, fixed distribution costs spread over far more kWh can hold or lower per-customer bills while rate base grows — the rare configuration where capex expansion becomes politically easy rather than contentious.
Downside Behind-the-meter and co-located generation for AI campuses can take the largest new loads off the distribution and transmission bill entirely, stranding the growth thesis while leaving remaining customers carrying the fixed costs."""}
Outcome range spread 37
Growth Outlook
Analyzed 2026-08-19 12:57The question every valuation on this page silently assumes: is this company likely to grow? Judged forward — the business, its category, the world — against what's already printed.
Claude Reading
Looking at the raw numbers first: EXC generated $24.3B in 2025 revenue growing 5.3% YoY, with net income of $2.77B (+12.6%). But the operating cash flow of $6.25B is completely swamped by $8.53B capex, producing -$2.28B free cash flow. That's not a one-off — this is a company whose capex runs ~35% above operating cash flow structurally, funded by the $51B debt stack against only $626M cash and $28.8B equity (D/E of 1.77x). ROIC of 5.5% against a cost of debt that's almost certainly north of 5% in this rate regime means Exelon is arguably creating zero economic value per marginal dollar deployed. The 3.66% dividend yield below the 10Y is being paid with borrowed money and rate-base recovery promises, not organic cash generation. Q1 2026 rev of $7.24B and NI of $919M looks strong optically, but Q1 is always seasonal peak for utilities — comparing to Q1 2025's $6.71B/$908M shows 7.9% rev growth but essentially flat earnings.
The synthesis calls this "fair value" at $46.84 composite vs $45.31 spot. I partially agree on the number but dissent on the framing. The Market Forces model calling it "structurally disadvantaged" and the Thesis Evaluation scoring -15 both seem closer to right than the anodyne "fair value" verdict. Here's the contradiction the synthesis glosses over: you cannot simultaneously flag "high debt risk — interest coverage dangerously low" AND "growth is effectively free at this price" and call the composite reliable. Those are opposite risk regimes. In a utility with negative FCF, low ROIC, and a rising-rate refinancing wall, the "no-growth floor" concept is dubious because the floor assumes the balance sheet can service itself without further equity dilution — which Exelon has repeatedly done historically. At 16.6x P/E, EXC trades at a premium to the 12-15x utility historical band cited, and that premium requires believing the AI/data-center rate-base story that the thesis model correctly notes is "mostly in someone else's territory" (PJM interconnect queues favor different names).
A careful contrarian bull would push back: regulated utilities with approved capex plans have predictable earnings visibility that mid-cycle industrials would kill for; the 9% earnings CAGR is real and beats most utility peers; the Mid-Atlantic/Chicago footprint is genuinely load-growth advantaged even if not the marquee AI beneficiary; and the 58% payout ratio does leave dividend growth headroom. The insider "awards" are just RSU grants — non-signal, and the models correctly ignored them. But the contrarian bear has the sharper case: in a world where 10Y Treasuries yield ~4.5%, paying 16.6x earnings for a 3.66% yielder with -$2.28B FCF and 1.77x D/E is asking the buyer to accept negative real risk premium on a levered bond-proxy. The narrative model calling this "anchored" and "minimal narrative intensity" is right that there's no story premium — but that's precisely why there's no cushion when rates stay higher-for-longer.
I dissent modestly from the "fair value" synthesis and lean toward mildly overvalued. Fair value for a utility with 5.5% ROIC, structurally negative FCF, and rate-refinancing exposure should be closer to 14x earnings, or roughly $38-40, not $46. The market is granting Exelon a valuation that implicitly extends the AI-power-demand halo without Exelon actually being in the fat part of that curve. I don't see a catalyst to short — utilities grind — but I see no reason to own this over ED, DUK, or SO at similar multiples with better cash conversion. If you must own regulated Mid-Atlantic exposure, wait for a rates-driven washout to sub-$40 where the yield exceeds 4.1% and the P/E compresses to the historical band. The Market Forces "avoid in favor of better-positioned peers" call is the sharpest read in the file.
GPT Reading
Exelon looks like a good utility, not a cheap stock. The raw numbers show a steady regulated earnings machine: revenue rose from $21.73B in 2023 to $23.03B in 2024 and $24.26B in 2025, while operating income expanded from $4.02B to $4.32B to $5.15B. Net income has compounded from $2.17B in 2022 to $2.77B in 2025, and the quarterly run-rate remains solid with 2026 Q1 net income of $919M versus $908M a year earlier on revenue of $7.24B versus $6.71B. That is exactly what you want from a wires-and-meters utility: modest top-line growth, decent operating leverage, and little drama. The issue is that the market already capitalizes this stability at 16.6x earnings, 1.59x book, and 11.8x EV/EBITDA. For a business earning 9.6% ROE and 5.5% ROIC with a 3.66% dividend yield, that feels full rather than attractive.
The biggest thing that stands out is the gap between accounting earnings and actual funding needs. Exelon produced $6.25B of operating cash flow in 2025, which sounds strong until you put it next to $8.53B of capex and arrive at negative free cash flow of $2.28B. For a regulated utility, negative FCF is not automatically alarming because capex becomes future rate base, but it absolutely matters for equity holders when total debt is already $51.09B against just $626M of cash and $28.8B of equity. Debt-to-equity of 1.77x is manageable only if regulators keep allowing timely recovery and if financing remains open at reasonable spreads. The valuation synthesis flagging debt risk is directionally right even if “dangerously low” coverage may overstate it; the balance sheet does constrain upside because so much of the equity story is really a financing story. Investors are paying today for future regulated asset growth that still has to be funded expensively.
The quarterly pattern also reinforces that this is a stable compounding utility, not a hidden inflection. Margins bounce seasonally between roughly 7% and 13.5%, but there is no evidence of a structural earnings breakout that would justify a premium multiple. 2025 revenue grew only 5.3% and earnings 12.5% on the latest reported year-over-year quarter, good but ordinary in the context of a utility expanding rate base after years of inflation-driven capital deployment. And the dividend case is merely acceptable, not compelling: a 58% payout ratio leaves room for increases, but a 3.7% yield is not especially attractive when leverage is high and free cash flow is negative. If I buy a regulated utility at 16-17x earnings, I want either a superior yield, cleaner balance sheet, or clearly better growth visibility than this dataset shows.
The best case against my caution is straightforward: this is exactly the kind of company that deserves a premium to old utility averages because it is now a pure regulated platform, free of merchant power volatility, and it is executing. Operating margin improved to 21.2% in 2025, net margin reached 11.4%, and annual net income has risen every year shown. If rate base growth continues and allowed returns stay constructive, today’s negative free cash flow is just the byproduct of building earnings power, not a defect. On that view, 1.59x book is not demanding for a utility with dense, economically resilient service territories and visible electrification/grid hardening spend. I take that seriously; my pushback is that the current price already reflects this cleaner regulated identity. At $45.31 and a $46.68B market cap, the stock is not being ignored or punished. It is being treated as a dependable compounder, which is fair enough, but leaves limited room for multiple expansion.
What would make me more positive is not another quarter of steady EPS; it would be evidence that financing pressure is easing or that growth economics are better than they look now. Specifically, I would want to see operating cash flow move materially above $7B while capex growth moderates enough to narrow the FCF deficit, or a clear step-up in allowed returns/rate recovery that supports sustained ROE above 10%-11% without meaningful equity dilution. Conversely, if debt keeps rising faster than earnings, or if quarterly net income starts flattening around the current $2.7B-$2.9B annualized range while capex remains above $8B, then even the current mid-teens P/E is too generous. My base case is that Exelon is a quality regulated utility priced near fair value, with mild downside if rates or regulation turn less friendly.
Grok Reading
Exelon’s post-spin identity is fully visible in the numbers: a pure regulated wires-and-pipes utility growing the top line at a mid-single-digit clip while converting that into high-single to low-double-digit earnings growth. Full-year 2025 revenue of $24.26B is up 5.3% from $23.03B, and net income of $2.77B is up roughly 12.6% from $2.46B, extending a clean multi-year ladder from the $2.17B earned in 2022. Operating income expanded faster still—to $5.15B from $4.32B—pushing the operating margin to 21.2%. The quarterly tape shows the usual utility seasonality (stronger March and September quarters, softer June), but the year-ago comparisons are consistently higher, and trailing margins have stabilized in the 11–13% net range outside the soft summer print. At $45.31 the stock screens at 16.6x earnings, 1.59x book, 1.89x sales and 11.8x EV/EBITDA—none of which scream mispricing for a regulated earner delivering ~9% earnings CAGR and a 3.7% dividend covered by a 58% payout.
What the cash flow statement refuses to hide is the structural trade-off. Operating cash flow of $6.25B is healthy, but $8.53B of capex produced free cash flow of –$2.28B. That is not a one-year timing accident; it is the rate-base growth model working as designed. The balance sheet carries $51.1B of debt against $626M of cash and $28.8B of equity (D/E 1.77, current ratio 0.92). ROE of 9.6% and ROIC of 5.5% are exactly what a mid-single-digit allowed-return utility should produce after leverage. In other words, the equity story is “we spend, regulators put it in rate base, we earn a regulated spread, we raise the dividend slowly.” Insiders are only receiving routine awards; there is no information edge either way. The market narrative layer correctly flags that price sits within noise of DCF, so the energy-transition and grid-modernization story is already inside the multiple rather than sitting on top of it.
I therefore read the stock as roughly fairly valued—close enough to the composite ~$46.50–$46.80 fair-value band that the 2–3% gap is not an edge. The 16.6x P/E is a modest premium to the old 12–15x utility box, but it is paid for by visible rate-base growth and earnings momentum that older comps did not always deliver. The dividend at 3.66% yields less than the 10-year Treasury, which is the clearest single reason the stock will not re-rate higher without either lower rates or faster EPS delivery. Negative FCF and the debt stack are real constraints on financial flexibility, yet they are the mechanism of growth, not evidence the model is broken—so long as the Mid-Atlantic and Illinois commissions continue to allow timely recovery.
The strongest case against this fair-value stance is the bear stack already partially assembled in the briefing: thesis score –15, “Market Headwinds” classification, structural cash burn, and the charge that any AI/data-center uplift is largely accruing to generators and other geographies, not Exelon’s distribution footprint. A skeptic would also note that EV/revenue near 4x and a sub-1.0 current ratio leave little cushion if allowed ROEs compress or if refinancing costs jump on the $51B debt pile. Those points have weight; I simply do not convert them into an overvalued call because the same capex creating negative FCF is the approved growth runway, earnings are compounding faster than revenue, and the stock is not priced for perfection—it is priced for mid-single-digit growth and a covered dividend, which is what it is delivering. The “growth is free below the no-growth floor” observation in the valuation synthesis is the cleanest counter to the pure-bear framing.
I would flip to undervalued on a sustained print of positive free cash flow while rate-base growth remains intact, a clear step-up in authorized ROEs in Illinois or PECO territory, or a re-rating of the peer group that leaves EXC more than 10% cheap to a refreshed DCF. I would flip to overvalued if 2026 earnings growth stalls below mid-single digits, if the payout is forced above ~70%, or if a material rate-case denial shows up while the stock still sits above 17x forward earnings.
Big-3 Panel — where each AI stands
Advanced Analysis Forensic deep-dive · separate lenses
Exelon looks like a textbook regulated T&D utility: revenue rebased from $36.4B (2021, pre-Constellation spin) to a clean $19.1B in 2022 and has since compounded to $24.3B in 2025, with operating margin expanding steadily from 7.5% to 21.2% and net income rising every year from $1.83B to $2.77B. Earnings quality on the accrual side is fine — OCF/NI of 2.09x and accruals of -2.4% of assets are consistent with a real cash-generative operating engine, and diluted share count has crept only from 980M to 1.01B (0.8% CAGR), so per-share earnings actually grow.
Verify before trusting this (5)
- Regulatory rate case outcomes across ComEd, PECO, BGE, Pepco/Delmarva/ACE — allowed ROE and rate-base growth trajectory
- Debt maturity ladder and weighted-average coupon versus current refi rates
- Capex plan vs. operating cash flow to size the multi-year external financing need
- Dividend coverage from operating cash flow (not FCF) and payout policy
- Any parent-level (holdco) debt versus opco debt structure and structural subordination
Exelon prints as textbook fairly valued. The composite fair value of $46.84 and signal-adjusted $46.51 sit within 3% of the $45.33 price; the EPV floor at $48.65 and anchored PE at $45.03 bracket the price tightly. That convergence across methods is itself a signal that the market has this one dialed in - a mature regulated wires utility with visible rate-base growth and clean earnings quality, priced for exactly what it is. Quality lens says Solid (-7), which supports the deserved value but does not create a discount. What is priced in: mid-single-digit rate-base and EPS growth, steady dividend, orderly regulatory outcomes across the six-state footprint, and the electrification tailwind. To argue cheapness you would need to believe rate cases come in structurally better than history or that grid capex earns above-authorized returns - neither is a bet I would size up at this price. The bear case (regulatory drag, pension, capex intensity, priced-in transition upside) is the more honest read of the setup.
Verify before trusting this (4)
- Pending multi-state rate case outcomes (ROE, equity layer, capital tracker approvals) that reset the rate base trajectory
- Updated capex plan and financing mix - equity issuance size would compress per-share deserved value
- Pension discount rate assumptions and unfunded liability moves in the 10-K
- Authorized vs earned ROE gap by operating utility - drag signals regulatory friction
Exelon sits in the sentiment dead zone. The narrative is a minimal-intensity, durable steady-compounder story with low cult factor - nobody is pounding the table and nobody is dumping it. The tape is modestly risk-on (+25), which normally would leave a 0.4-beta regulated utility flat, but VIX at 15.8 with headlines flagging geopolitical tension is generating a defensive-rotation whisper that explicitly names EXC as a pick. That is a genuine, if small, tailwind for this specific name. Offsetting it: the July earnings reaction (beat on EPS, still down 3%) shows the market has no appetite to re-rate this story higher - good news gets sold. Analyst tone and news flow are benign but boring (community grants, bill-support programs, dividend-stock listicles), which is exactly the wallpaper a mature utility narrative generates. Net: a low-amplitude sentiment environment where defensive demand roughly cancels the absence of any growth story or momentum. Pressure is real but small in either direction, so this reads Balanced with a faint defensive tilt.
Verify before trusting this (4)
- Whether VIX pushes above 20 - would meaningfully strengthen the defensive bid for EXC specifically
- Any rate-case rulings in Illinois, PA, MD, or NJ that could inject regulatory-risk narrative
- Whether the 10y yield breaks decisively above 4.75% or fades toward 4.5% - direct sentiment driver for regulated utilities
- Analyst target revisions post-Q2 - a wave of upward revisions could finally give the story some intensity
Exelon is a pure wires monopoly with no commodity margin, so AI does not threaten its product; it changes the size of the pipe. The transmission mechanism is: AI-driven data-center interconnection requests → approved capital plans → rate base → regulated earnings, with a secondary channel where AI trims O&M (outage prediction, vegetation, call centers, field dispatch) and the savings mostly flow to ratepayers at the next rate case but temporarily lift earned versus allowed ROE and, more importantly, create headroom to spend more capital inside a fixed affordability envelope. The binding constraint is not technology or competition but the regulator's willingness to fund AI-era grid buildout and the equity Exelon must issue to finance persistently negative free cash flow.
None surfaced.
Verify before trusting this (8)
- Peak demand forecasts by utility
- Data-center interconnection queue volumes
- Electrification/EV load trends
- Transmission capex approvals (PJM RTEP)
- Interconnection lead times quoted
- Supply-chain constraints on equipment
- Approved capital plan size
- Allowed ROE and equity layer
The world is pushing more electricity through wires — electrification, data centers, PJM load growth — and the regulated distributor's job is to spend capital building for it. That is a genuine multi-year tailwind and it lands on EXC's footprint. But the same world is producing sharply higher customer bills, which converts an engineering story into a political one: every dollar of rate base now travels through commissions facing affordability pressure. So the direction is up, the slope is set by regulators, and the upside from the demand boom accrues disproportionately to owners of generation rather than owners of wires. EXC is a participant in the transition, not a leveraged beneficiary of it.
When we made this prediction on Aug 19, 2026, EXC was $45.30. We expect it to be $46.35 by Feb 2027, and we consider it great value under $40.00. This is an early model (v0.6.0) — the direction is more reliable than the exact price. Made Aug 19, 2026.
Blue is our prediction, starting the day we made it. Grey is a slower route to the same place — the same destination, taking longer. Black is the actual price, so you can see how we are doing.