Dividend Opportunities in the Energy Sector: Despite the S&P 500 being near all-time highs, attractive high-yield stocks like NextEra Energy, Chevron, and Enterprise Products Partners present good investment opportunities for dividend investors.
NextEra Energy's Growth Potential: NextEra Energy offers a dividend yield of 3.1% and has a strong track record of 10% annualized dividend growth, driven by its regulated utility operations and significant investments in solar and wind energy.
Chevron's Resilience and Stability: Chevron boasts a 4.3% dividend yield and has increased its dividend for 38 consecutive years, supported by a strong balance sheet and recent improvements in its operations, including the completion of its acquisition of Hess.
Enterprise Products Partners' Reliable Income: With a distribution yield of 6.8% and 27 years of consecutive increases, Enterprise Products Partners operates a stable midstream energy business that provides reliable cash flows, appealing to income-focused investors.
Wall Street analysts forecast NEE stock price to rise over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for NEE is 92.50 USD with a low forecast of 84.00 USD and a high forecast of 100.00 USD. However, analyst price targets are subjective and often lag stock prices, so investors should focus on the objective reasons behind analyst rating changes, which better reflect the company's fundamentals.
16 Analyst Rating
Wall Street analysts forecast NEE stock price to rise over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for NEE is 92.50 USD with a low forecast of 84.00 USD and a high forecast of 100.00 USD. However, analyst price targets are subjective and often lag stock prices, so investors should focus on the objective reasons behind analyst rating changes, which better reflect the company's fundamentals.
12 Buy
4 Hold
0 Sell
Strong Buy
Current: 85.070
Low
84.00
Averages
92.50
High
100.00
Current: 85.070
Low
84.00
Averages
92.50
High
100.00
Morgan Stanley
NULL
to
Overweight
maintain
$95 -> $104
2026-01-21
New
Reason
Morgan Stanley
Price Target
$95 -> $104
AI Analysis
2026-01-21
New
maintain
NULL
to
Overweight
Reason
Morgan Stanley raised the firm's price target on NextEra Energy to $104 from $95 and keeps an Overweight rating on the shares. The firm is updating its Regulated & Diversified Utilities / IPPs in North America under its coverage, noting utilities underperformed the S&P's return in December, the analyst tells investors.
Jefferies
Julien Dumoulin-Smith
Hold
maintain
$85 -> $88
2025-12-31
Reason
Jefferies
Julien Dumoulin-Smith
Price Target
$85 -> $88
2025-12-31
maintain
Hold
Reason
Jefferies analyst Julien Dumoulin-Smith raised the firm's price target on NextEra Energy to $88 from $85 and keeps a Hold rating on the shares. Following deep-dive to update EPS estimates after NextEra's analyst day, the firm projects about a 9% EPS compound annual growth rate through 2032, exceeding the company's 8%-plus guidance and 7.6% consensus for 2025-2032, the analyst tells investors.
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UBS
William Appicelli
Buy
downgrade
$94 -> $91
2025-12-17
Reason
UBS
William Appicelli
Price Target
$94 -> $91
2025-12-17
downgrade
Buy
Reason
UBS analyst William Appicelli lowered the firm's price target on NextEra Energy to $91 from $94 and keeps a Buy rating on the shares.
Morgan Stanley
Overweight
to
NULL
downgrade
$97 -> $95
2025-12-16
Reason
Morgan Stanley
Price Target
$97 -> $95
2025-12-16
downgrade
Overweight
to
NULL
Reason
Morgan Stanley lowered the firm's price target on NextEra Energy to $95 from $97 and keeps an Overweight rating on the shares. Utility performance will be heavily driven by data centers and growth upside in 2026, the analyst tells investors in a year-ahead note.
About NEE
NextEra Energy, Inc. is an electric power and energy infrastructure company. It operates through its wholly owned subsidiaries, NextEra Energy Resources, LLC and NextEra Energy Transmission, LLC (collectively, NEER) and Florida Power & Light Company (FPL). Its segments include NEER and FPL. FPL segment is a rate-regulated electric utility engaged in the generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy in Florida. FPL has approximately 35,052 megawatts of net generating capacity, over 91,000 circuit miles of transmission and distribution lines and 921 substations. The NEER segment owns, develops, constructs, manages and operates electric generation facilities in wholesale energy markets in the United States and Canada and includes assets and investments in other businesses with a clean energy focus, such as battery storage, natural gas pipelines, and renewable fuels. It owns, develops, constructs and operates rate-regulated transmission facilities in North America.
About the author
Emily J. Thompson
Emily J. Thompson, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with 12 years in investment research, graduated with honors from the Wharton School. Specializing in industrial and technology stocks, she provides in-depth analysis for Intellectia’s earnings and market brief reports.
