Is the business good?
How good a business is NEE?
NextEra Energy earns 4.2% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
4.2%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 4.8 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 30%
Operating margin · Utilities - Regulated Electric median 22% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Share count, year on year
- +1.5%
Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 28% |
| FY2021 | 17% |
| FY2022 | 19% |
| FY2023 | 36% |
| FY2024 | 30% |
| FY2025 | 30% |
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- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 30%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 29%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $27.9B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $8.18B
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 4.2%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Utilities - Regulated Electric
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