WEC
Evidence as of 2026-09-03Overview · WEC ENERGY GROUP, INC.
WEC Energy Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides regulated natural gas and electricity, and renewable and nonregulated renewable energy services in the United States. The company operates through six segments: Wisconsin, Illinois, Other States, Electric Transmission, Non-Utility Energy Infrastructure, and Corporate and Other. It generates and distributes electricity from coal, natural gas, and oil, as well…
Management team
- Mr. Daniel P. Krueger · Executive Vice President of WEC Infrastructure & Generation PlanningFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. James A. Schubilske · VP & Chief Audit OfficerFind on LinkedIn
- Ms. Mary Beth Straka CPA · Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications & Investor RelationsFind on LinkedIn
- Ms. Molly A. Mulroy · Executive VP & Chief Administrative OfficerFind on LinkedIn
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Moneyta sentiment
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What builds the score
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Editor's note
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The surviving evidence is mixed and high-confidence. Revenues rose year-over-year in fiscal Q1 2026 (ended 2026-03-31) to $ 3,434,200,000 from $ 3,149,500,000 and in fiscal Q2 2026 (ended 2026-06-30) to $ 2,062,100,000 from $ 2,009,500,000, while operating income also increased in those quarters to $ 980,000,000 and $ 432,800,000 versus $ 937,500,000 and $ 404,900,000 a year earlier. Long-term noncurrent debt rose to $ 19,381,800,000 as of 2026-03-31 (and was $ 19,216,300,000 as of 2026-06-30), weighted-average diluted shares increased to 328,900,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 (ended 2026-06-30), and cash and cash equivalents remained very small but grew to $ 50,000,000 as of 2026-06-30.
Valuation and market signals are part of the record: implied FCF growth of 11.37% is reported as the rate today's price would justify under the model assumptions; price-to-FCF (TTM) is 22.04 with FCF per share $ 4.7972; EV/EBITDA (TTM) is 14.42; and trailing P/E (TTM) is 27.9. News items note second-quarter 2026 results beat estimates and guidance was reaffirmed, yet the stock traded down about 3.4% after the release.
How this note was made
every stage ran before the note was writtenAnalyst desk
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Reads the XBRL figures companies file with the SEC — revenue, margins, income, debt and share count, quarter by quarter — and reports which way the trend is running.
Revenues in the 3-month periods: fiscal Q1 2026 (2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31) were $3,434,200,000 and fiscal Q2 2026 (2026-04-01 to 2026-06-30) were $2,062,100,000; the comparable prior-year quarters were $3,149,500,000 (Q1 2025, 2025-01-01 to 2025-03-31) and $2,009,500,000 (Q2 2025, 2025-04-01 to 2025-06-30), showing higher revenues year-over-year in both Q1 and Q2.
XBRL companyfacts · 0000783325-26-000052Operating income for the 3-month periods: fiscal Q1 2026 (2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31) was $980,000,000 and fiscal Q2 2026 (2026-04-01 to 2026-06-30) was $432,800,000; the comparable prior-year operating income figures were $937,500,000 (Q1 2025, 2025-01-01 to 2025-03-31) and $404,900,000 (Q2 2025, 2025-04-01 to 2025-06-30), indicating operating income increased year-over-year in those quarters.
XBRL companyfacts · 0000783325-26-000052Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.
Nothing in this slice of the evidence rose to a claim — a quiet read, which itself is information.
Which filings the desk reads
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Reads which funds hold the name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings, to show the exposure you may already carry through index funds.
As of 2026-09-02, WEC is a holding in the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV) with a weight of 0.06% of that fund.
ETF constituents · market dataThe provided ownership evidence contains a single ETF membership record for WEC (the IVV entry) dated 2026-09-02.
ETF constituents · market dataReads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.
Coverage includes a report that WEC Energy Group reported second-quarter 2026 results that exceeded earnings estimates and reaffirmed 2026 guidance and its long-term earnings growth target through 2030 (fiscal Q2 2026, ended 30 June 2026).
News · simplywall.st · 2026-08-29Multiple outlets flagged that the stock is lower since the last earnings report, with pieces asking why WEC Energy is down 3.4% since that earnings release.
News · zacks.com · 2026-08-28Reads parsed Forms 3/4/5 — who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.
No insider transactions on file in the trailing 180 days.
Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.
The model reports an implied free-cash-flow (FCF) growth rate of 11.37% that today's price would justify under the stated discount and terminal assumptions.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closePrice-to-FCF (TTM) is 22.04 and FCF per share (TTM) is $4.7972, based on the price $105.73 and shares outstanding reported as of 2026-06-30.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeDebate and risk review
A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.
A bull and a bear argue the analysts' claims across two rounds, then a chair rules on each one. Only what survives feeds the score — the argument is shown, not hidden, so you can judge the reasoning yourself.
The evidence set contains multiple company-level signals that support a favorable read. Revenues and operating income both rose year-over-year in Q1 and Q2 2026 (fundamentals-0, fundamentals-1), management publicly reported an earnings beat and reaffirmed 2026 guidance and longer-term targets (news-0), and cash on the balance sheet has increased while the company has undertaken at least modest share repurchases (fundamentals-5, fundamentals-6). Relative valuation metrics (EV/EBITDA 14.4, P/FCF 22.0) and an implied FCF growth rate embedded in current price (valuation-0, valuation-1, valuation-2) provide a framework for assessing whether the market is already pricing these improvements; the provided documents do not include peer or historical growth data to fully judge that plausibility (valuation-4).
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
balanced0.31
21 surviving claims rest on 12 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 33% of them, and 100% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
The evidence set rests on a moderate number of sources but a relatively small group of contributors: one analyst accounts for a third of surviving claims and everything the desk raised survived challenge. That concentration and the perfect survival rate mean these claims carry useful signal but lower epistemic robustness — a new primary filing or an independent data source could materially change weight-of-evidence judgments.
Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers
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16 filings· 1 cited
SEC XBRL filings
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Read by Mercer+0.0 to the score
1 holdings record
Fund holdings
Which funds hold this name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings.
Read by Ellis+0.0 to the score
8 headlines· 2 cited
News coverage
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Read by Yatesnothing survived
1 computation
Valuation inputs
TTM cash-flow figures from the company's own XBRL filings, priced with the stored closing price. Implied growth and multiples only; no fair-value dollar figure reaches the desk, by design.
Read by Archercontext only
1 record· 0 cited
Analyst consensus
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