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Energy · ·
$75.36
▼ $0.76 (-1.0%)
Market data updated: 09/16 03:34 AM
Fundamentals updated: 09/16/2026
News analyzed: 09/16/2026
Market Cap
$2.77B
Day Range
$74.83 - $76.35
52-Week Range
$72.16 - $87.94
Beta
—
Next Earnings
03.11.2026
MGEE is a stock from the Energy sector — Oil, gas, and renewable energy — highly volatile profitability, dependent on global commodity prices.
-11.4% (1Y)
Strengths: 3/26 factors positiveRisk: High
This score and all analysis on this page are for informational and educational purposes only and do not constitute investment advice. Read the full disclaimer
Weighted: Technical 25% · Fundamental 20% · Growth 15% · Valuation 15% · News 10% · Quality 10% · Risk 5%
Overall Score
🔴 Bearish
Technical Trend
🔴 Bearish
Insiders
🟢 Bullish
Computed directly from the same signals behind the score above — not AI-generated.
Biggest positive driver
Daily volatility (ATR)
ATR: 1.9% of price
Risk
Biggest negative driver
DCF Fair Value
Estimated fair value: -$62.90 vs. price $75.36 (-183.5%)
Fair Value
What to watch next
When today echoes the past.
NO RELIABLE ECHO FOUND
Only 2 historical analog(s) found after removing overlapping dates — too few for a statistically meaningful comparison.
Historical matches considered: 2
TIME ECHO identifies historical situations that resemble the current market state. Historical outcomes are not guarantees of future performance. Similarity does not imply causation, and results may change as new data becomes available.
🗓️ What Changed This Week
🌱 Building History
We don't have a real data point from a week ago for this stock yet. The weekly comparison will appear once enough history has accumulated.
📊 Score History
43
Today
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30D
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90D
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1Y
🐂🐻 Investment Thesis
🐂 Bull Case
🐻 Bear Case
🔍 What Could Prove This Wrong
This isn't a price-direction forecast — just a synthesis of real, already-computed data, and future conditions that could change the picture.
🧬 STOCK DNA
This stock's profile across 8 real dimensions — a research tool, not a recommendation
Growth
54
Quality
50
Value
38
Momentum
10
Risk
42
Sentiment
100
Fundamental
46
Institutional
100
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Recent media coverage of MGE Energy Inc. has primarily highlighted its strong dividend performance and strategic initiatives. The company’s 51st consecutive annual dividend increase (August 2026) underscores its commitment to shareholder returns, while a partnership with Realta Fusion to explore a 200-MWe fusion energy plant in Wisconsin signals its focus on innovation and future energy solutions. Analysts also note its steady earnings and relatively high valuation, positioning it as a reliable dividend stock.
AI summary based on English-language news sources only — not investment advice.
Everyone's writing about MGE Energy Inc.. News trend score: 100. Reason: 11 of the last 20 articles are positive, versus 2 negative.
News trend analysis is based on article sentiment only, and is not investment advice or financial counsel. Read the full disclaimer
🌡️ Emotional Temperature
19
🎯 Conviction (vs. Emotion)
50
Psychology
85
Fundamentals
46
Technical
10
Valuation
38
The price is holding at a real, documented historical support/resistance level (a 50-day high or low).
The stock is moving in lockstep with its peers at the same intensity, rather than on its own data.
A sharp drop, unusual volume, and negative news sentiment all at once — selling pressure that looks emotional.
Extreme momentum, price far above its moving average, and a large premium over fair value.
Price, volume, and sentiment accelerating together — a sign investors are chasing the price, not just following it.
Price (3M)
-0%
Market Narrative
60
Fundamental Reality
50
Narrative Gap
+10
🔀 Psychology Acceleration
News attention/sentiment is running well ahead of the price move itself.
🧠 StockIQ Psychologist
The dominant anchoring behavior (77) reflects traders’ fixation on the 1.2% support level, likely due to its proximity. Low FOMO (8) and herding (14) scores suggest limited urgency or peer-driven momentum, while negative momentum (-4.8% ROC) and neutral RSI (34) align with cautious, non-extreme positioning. The key question is whether traders will treat the support as a hard floor or adjust anchors if it’s breached. Panic selling (18) remains muted, indicating restrained distress despite negative momentum. The narrow narrative gap (1) hints at modest misalignment between market sentiment and fundamentals.
Updated: 09/08/2026, 11:02 PM
What could change this?
👥 What the crowd believes
"MGE Energy Increases Dividend for 51st Consecutive Year"
"Top 25 Dividend Stock Opportunities For September 2026 — ... MGE Energy (MGEE) is a great dividend stock"
"Morgan Stanley analyst maintains Underweight on MGE Energy, lowers price target to $74"
"MGE Energy raises quarterly dividend from $0.4750 to $0.5083 per share (7.0% increase)"
Signal classification confidence: High (confidence in the behavioral read, not a price prediction). Describes observable market behavior, not what any individual investor thinks, and is not a buy/sell signal.
🏛️ Investor DNA — Historical Investors
A Historical Strategy Simulation: assuming each investor follows their documented principles, how would they rate this stock today? This is not a prediction of what they would actually do.
🟢 Best match
Samuel Armstrong Nelson — 99/100
🔴 Weakest match
Benjamin Graham (Enterprising Investor) — 0/100
🗣️ Why do they disagree?
Based on their documented principles, the model estimates that investors emphasizing cycle position and long‑term fundamentals (Nelson, Smith, Mackay, Veblen) assign high scores, reflecting their view that the stock appears oversold, a decade‑hold candidate, free of crowd mania, and generating real value. In contrast, those who weight market‑cycle timing, pricing expectations, and risk (Marks, Marks‑cycle, Schwager, Loeb, Housel, Efficient‑market) give moderate scores, indicating a middle‑of‑the‑cycle stance, mixed expectations, limited edge and moderate risk. Value‑oriented screens such as Graham, Lynch, Bagehot, and Livermore produce low or negative scores because the stock fails defensive criteria, growth‑at‑reasonable‑price thresholds, shows liquidity concerns, and runs counter to trend‑following rules. Finally, Fisher and Graham’s Enterprising framework assign zero due to insufficient data or lack of statistical cheapness, reinforcing the divergence among methodologies.
Samuel Armstrong Nelson
The ABC of Stock Speculation (1903)
🟢 99
Cycle position looks favorable — closer to oversold than overbought
Key question
Is the price overextended, or is there still room to move?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Edgar Lawrence Smith
Common Stocks as Long-Term Investments (1924)
🟢 82
Looks like a real 'buy and hold for a decade' candidate
Key question
Is this a stock I'd be happy to hold and forget about for a decade?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Charles Mackay
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841)
🟢 76
No obvious signs of crowd mania
Key question
Am I being swept along with the crowd, or thinking for myself?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Thorstein Veblen
The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904)
🟢 65
Growth appears aligned with real value creation
Key question
Is management building real value, or just building itself?
⚠️ Partial data for this stock — score is less reliable — Data availability: 45%
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Jack Schwager
Market Wizards (1989)
🟡 54
No clear edge either way
Key question
What's the risk/reward here, and where is my exit point?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Howard Marks (Market Cycle)
Mastering the Market Cycle (2018)
🟡 53
Somewhere in the middle of the cycle
Key question
Where are we in the cycle right now — near a hot extreme, or a cold one?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Howard Marks
The Most Important Thing (2011) / Mastering the Market Cycle (2018)
🟡 50
Mixed — a good business, but expectations may already be high
Key question
What is the market probably misunderstanding about the risk here?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Gerald M. Loeb
The Battle for Investment Survival (1935)
🟡 47
Moderate risk to capital
Key question
How much capital could I lose here if I'm wrong?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Morgan Housel
The Psychology of Money (2020)
🟡 44
Moderate — holdable, but not effortless
Key question
Could I live with this volatility long enough for compounding to actually work?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Benjamin Graham
Security Analysis (1934) / The Intelligent Investor (1949)
🔴 35
Fails most of Graham's defensive criteria
Key question
Where is my margin of safety?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Burton Malkiel & John Bogle
A Random Walk Down Wall Street (1973) / The Little Book of Common Sense Investing (2007)
🔴 35
Mixed case — the evidence for picking this stock over an index is not strong
Key question
Do I actually have an edge here, or do I just think I do?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Peter Lynch
One Up on Wall Street (1989)
🔴 33
Doesn't clear Lynch's growth-at-a-reasonable-price bar
Key question
Is the growth worth the price?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Walter Bagehot
Lombard Street (1873)
🔴 27
Liquidity position Bagehot would flag as a real risk
Key question
Does this company have enough liquidity to survive real stress?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Jesse Livermore
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923) / How to Trade in Stocks (1940)
🔴 15
Negative trend — against Livermore's core rule of trading with the trend
Key question
What is the price telling me right now?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Philip Fisher
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits (1958)
🔴 0
Not enough fundamentals data for a real Fisher read
Key question
How exceptional is this business, really?
⚠️ Partial data for this stock — score is less reliable — Data availability: 20%
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Benjamin Graham (Enterprising Investor)
The Intelligent Investor (1949) — the Enterprising Investor chapters
🔴 0
Not statistically cheap enough for the Enterprising Investor's looser safety bar
Key question
Is the stock statistically cheap enough to justify the extra risk?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Based on the last 279 trading days, calculated from real price data. Click an indicator for details and a chart.
🔴 Most indicators support a downtrend (0 bullish · 10 bearish · 1 neutral)
A market-structure read based purely on real price and volume data — not full classic Wyckoff schematic identification (Phase A-E), but a quantitative analysis of what can reliably be computed: trading ranges, "effort vs. result", volume within the range, and Spring/Upthrust detection.
The stock is in a clear downtrend with no defined trading range in the period examined.
High confidence
The Wyckoff Method, developed by Richard Wyckoff in the early 20th century, reads the balance of supply and demand through price and volume, based on the premise that large investors ("smart money") quietly accumulate shares before rallies and quietly distribute them before declines. The read here is based solely on real price and volume data — full, precise identification of classic Wyckoff patterns (such as Phases A-E) requires human chart-reading experience and judgment, so this is an approximate algorithmic read, not a substitute for professional analysis. This should not be considered investment advice.
Gross Margin
—
Operating Margin
—
Net Margin
—
EBITDA Margin
—
ROE
10.4%
ROA
4.3%
ROIC
—
EPS
$3.72
Cash
$5.67M
Total Debt
$813.84M
Current Ratio
0.77
Debt/Equity
0.62
אין נתונים היסטוריים זמינים.
Total dividend per share paid each year, over the last 5 years.
| Ex-Dividend Date | Amount per Share |
|---|---|
| 1.9.2026 | $0.508 |
| 1.6.2026 | $0.475 |
| 31.5.2026 | $0.475 |
| 27.2.2026 | $0.475 |
| 26.2.2026 | $0.475 |
| 1.12.2025 | $0.475 |
| 30.11.2025 | $0.475 |
| 29.8.2025 | $0.475 |
| 28.8.2025 | $0.475 |
| 30.5.2025 | $0.450 |
| 29.5.2025 | $0.450 |
| 28.2.2025 | $0.450 |
How is Fair Value calculated? →
Current Price
$75.36
Estimated Fair Value (DCF)
-$62.90
Model estimate — not a price target. Highly sensitive to growth/discount-rate assumptions.
Gap
-183.5%
🔴 Appears expensive relative to estimated value
Year 1 Growth Rate
10.0%
Discount Rate (WACC)
9.0%
Terminal Growth Rate
2.5%
Projection Years
5
| Year | Growth Rate | Projected FCF | Present Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10.0% | $-87.98M | $-80.72M |
| 2 | 8.1% | $-95.13M | $-80.07M |
| 3 | 6.3% | $-101.08M | $-78.05M |
| 4 | 4.4% | $-105.50M | $-74.74M |
| 5 | 2.5% | $-108.14M | $-70.28M |
Base FCF (last actual year)
$-79.99M
Terminal Value
$-1.71B
Present Value of Terminal Value
$-1.11B
Enterprise Value
$-1.49B
Net Debt
$808.17M
Equity Value
$-2.30B
*The DCF model is an estimate based on assumptions — not a guaranteed forecast. You can change the assumptions to examine different scenarios.
Book Value per Share
$35.65
Tangible Book Value per Share (Tangible NAV)
$35.65
Sentiment based on basic keywords (not AI) — 11 positive, 7 neutral, 2 negative out of the last 20 articles.
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MGE Energy Inc. (MGEE) currently has a StockIQ AI score of 43/100, rated "Weak". The score is a weighted average across up to 7 categories (technical, fundamental, growth, fair value, news, quality, risk), based on real data only.
MGEE currently scores 43/100 (Weak) across the categories we measure. StockIQ doesn't give buy/sell recommendations — use this as one data point in your own research, not as investment advice.
Per StockIQ's DCF model, MGEE's estimated fair value is -$62.90, which is 183.5% below the current price of $75.36. This is one valuation model among several signals in the fair-value category, not a price target.
MGEE's technical score is 10/100, which currently reads as bearish — based on real price/volume signals (moving averages, RSI, MACD, and more), not a prediction of what happens next.
Based on the real signals StockIQ computed: ATR: 1.9% of price; Earnings per share (EPS) growth: 11.7%; Net income growth: 12.7%.
Based on the real signals StockIQ computed: Estimated fair value: -$62.90 vs. price $75.36 (-183.5%); Current ratio: 0.77; Calmar: 0.02 (3y annualized return 0.8% / max drawdown 33.0%).
Yes — MGEE has a real recorded dividend payment history on StockIQ. See the Dividends section on this page for the actual per-share amounts and dates.
Real transactions by officers and insiders, as reported to the SEC on Form 4 — 4 purchases and 0 sales out of the last 25 filings.
| Name | Transaction Type | Date | Shares | Change | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berbee James G | Open Market Purchase | 9.9.2026 | 274.742 | +274.742 | $77.35 |
| Berbee James G | Open Market Purchase | 19.8.2026 | 261.364 | +261.364 | $81.30 |
| Bushek Jared Joseph | Grant/Award from Employer | 17.4.2026 | 25,000 | +25,000 | — |
| Bushek Jared Joseph | Grant/Award from Employer | 17.4.2026 | 35,796 | +25,000 | — |
| Berbee James G | Open Market Purchase | 11.3.2026 | 372.839 | +372.839 | $77.74 |
| Berbee James G | Open Market Purchase | 11.3.2026 | 9,362 | +373 | $77.74 |
| Possin James L | Grant/Award from Employer | 2.3.2026 | 1,039 | +1,039 | — |
| Garner Melissa Tyson | Grant/Award from Employer | 2.3.2026 | 1,374 | +1,374 | — |
| Rieger Angela S. | Grant/Award from Employer | 2.3.2026 | 1,039 | +1,039 | — |
| Jicha John Anthony | Grant/Award from Employer | 2.3.2026 | 945 | +945 | — |
| Bushek Jared Joseph | Grant/Award from Employer | 2.3.2026 | 3,684 | +3,684 | — |
| Keebler Jeffrey M | Grant/Award from Employer | 2.3.2026 | 10,905 | +10,905 | — |
| WOLTER GARY J | Grant/Award from Employer | 2.3.2026 | 1,039 | +1,039 | — |
| Wray Noble Lynnwood | Grant/Award from Employer | 2.3.2026 | 1,039 | +1,039 | — |
| Renlund Cari Anne | Grant/Award from Employer | 2.3.2026 | 1,716 | +1,716 | — |
| Smith Scott Robert | Grant/Award from Employer | 2.3.2026 | 1,116 | +1,116 | — |
| Lagerwall Jenny Lynn | Grant/Award from Employer | 2.3.2026 | 688 | +688 | — |
| Lorenz James Jerome | Grant/Award from Employer | 2.3.2026 | 1,390 | +1,390 | — |
| Ackerman Patricia K | Grant/Award from Employer | 2.3.2026 | 1,039 | +1,039 | — |
| Anderson Marcia M | Grant/Award from Employer | 2.3.2026 | 1,039 | +1,039 | — |
| Berbee James G | Grant/Award from Employer | 2.3.2026 | 1,039 | +1,039 | — |
| DEWEY LONDA J | Grant/Award from Employer | 2.3.2026 | 1,039 | +1,039 | — |
| Kelly Daniel James | Grant/Award from Employer | 2.3.2026 | 1,039 | +1,039 | — |
| Possin James L | Grant/Award from Employer | 2.3.2026 | 1,039 | +1,039 | — |
| WOLTER GARY J | Grant/Award from Employer | 2.3.2026 | 1,039 | +1,039 | — |
Official FINRA data — the number of shares open in short positions, plus daily short-sale activity.
1,734,366 shares short as of 2026-08-31 · vs. 1,618,842 on 2026-07-31
Official biweekly report (FINRA Rule 4560) — no real higher-frequency data exists for this metric.
56.1% of trading volume this week was short selling, vs. 52.1% the prior week
Based on daily short-sale volume (Reg SHO) — a different metric from the open short interest above: this is daily trading volume, not an open position, so it updates weekly rather than biweekly.
Full breakdown of every data type and its source: Data Sources · Methodology