Duke Energy Corp (DUK)

Duke Energy Corporation, through its subsidiaries, operates as an energy company in the United States. The company operates through two segments: Electric Utilities and Infrastructure (EU&I); and Gas Utilities and Infrastructure (GU&I). The EU&I segment generates, transmits, distributes, and sells electricity to customers in the Southeast and Midwest regions. It generates electricity through coal, hydroelectric, natural gas, oil, renewables, and nuclear fuel. This segment also engages in the wholesale of electricity to municipalities, electric cooperative utilities, and other load-serving entities. The GU&I segment distributes natural gas to customers in the residential, commercial, industrial, and power generation natural gas sectors; and invests in pipeline transmission projects, renewable natural gas projects, and natural gas storage facilities. The company was formerly known as Duke Energy Holding Corp. and changed its name to Duke Energy Corporation in April 2006. Duke Energy Corporation was founded in 1904 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Symbol: DUK
Exchange: NYSE
Sector: Utilities
Industry: Utilities - Regulated Electric
Market cap: $88.52B
52 week range: 112.4 - 134.49

Valuation

Share price: $113.74 (close of 2026-10-01)
P/E (TTM): 17.45x
Price to book: 1.57x
Price to free cash flow: -26.83x
Enterprise value: $177.59B
Book value per share: $72.59

Price performance

Period	Change
1 day	-0.24%
5 days	+0.45%
1 month	-5.52%
3 months	-9.57%
6 months	-13.11%
Year to date	-2.96%
1 year	-7.07%
3 years	+28.87%
5 years	+15.52%
10 years	+42.10%
All time	+1668.90%

Members of Congress who disclosed DUK trades

Lisa McClain · Marjorie Taylor Greene · Tommy Tuberville · Alan Armstrong · Dan Newhouse · Julia Letlow · Virginia Foxx

Profitability and growth

Return on equity: 9.37%
Return on invested capital: 5.56%
Return on assets: 2.54%
Return on capital employed: 4.94%
Gross margin: 27.18%
Net margin: 15.65%
EBITDA margin: 51.45%
Revenue growth: 5.63%
Net income growth: 9.81%
Free cash flow growth: -3629.17%

Cash flow and balance sheet

Free cash flow yield (TTM): -3.73%
Current ratio: 0.66x
Net debt to EBITDA: 5.05x

Latest reported year

Period end: 2025-12-31
Fiscal year: 2025
Revenue: $31.74B
Cost of revenue: $23.11B
Gross profit: $8.63B
EBITDA: $16.33B
Net income: $4.97B
Earnings per share: $6.31
Interest expense: $3.63B
Shares outstanding: 777.00M

Income statement by year

Period end	Revenue	Gross profit	Net income	EPS
2025-12-31	$31.74B	$8.63B	$4.97B	$6.31
2024-12-31	$30.05B	$7.93B	$4.52B	$5.71
2023-12-31	$28.67B	$7.07B	$2.84B	$3.54
2022-12-31	$28.68B	$6.01B	$2.55B	$3.17
2021-12-31	$24.49B	$5.50B	$3.91B	$4.94
2020-12-31	$23.25B	$4.57B	$1.38B	$1.72
2019-12-31	$24.35B	$17.52B	$3.75B	$5.06
2018-12-31	$23.76B	$16.93B	$2.67B	$3.76
2017-12-31	-	-	$3.06B	$4.36
2016-12-31	$22.74B	$16.12B	$2.15B	$3.11

Margins and returns by year

Period end	Gross margin	Net margin	Return on equity	Return on capital
2025-12-31	27.18%	15.65%	9.37%	5.56%
2024-12-31	26.38%	15.05%	8.83%	5.39%
2023-12-31	24.66%	9.91%	5.66%	5.09%
2022-12-31	20.97%	8.89%	4.92%	4.53%
2021-12-31	22.46%	15.96%	7.64%	4.48%
2020-12-31	19.66%	5.92%	2.80%	4.11%
2019-12-31	71.96%	15.39%	7.82%	4.79%
2018-12-31	71.25%	11.22%	6.08%	4.25%
2017-12-31	-	-	7.33%	4.73%
2016-12-31	70.87%	9.46%	5.24%	4.57%

Cash and debt by year

Period end	Cash	Debt
2025-12-31	$245.00M	$80.11B
2024-12-31	$314.00M	$76.34B
2023-12-31	$253.00M	$72.45B
2022-12-31	$409.00M	$65.87B
2021-12-31	$341.00M	$60.45B
2020-12-31	$259.00M	$55.63B
2019-12-31	$311.00M	$54.98B
2018-12-31	$442.00M	$51.12B
2017-12-31	$358.00M	$49.03B
2016-12-31	$392.00M	$45.58B

Free cash flow by year

Period end	Free cash flow	Stock-based compensation
2025-12-31	-$1.69B	$102.00M
2024-12-31	$48.00M	$96.00M
2023-12-31	-$2.73B	$97.00M
2022-12-31	-$5.44B	$100.00M
2021-12-31	-$1.43B	$88.00M
2020-12-31	-$1.05B	$84.00M
2019-12-31	-$2.91B	$89.00M
2018-12-31	-$2.20B	$78.00M
2017-12-31	-$1.43B	$68.00M
2016-12-31	-$1.04B	$55.00M