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Alliant Energy LNT

Utilities · Power Generation
$71.65+1.37% dayFri Oct 30 close

Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 8% below its 52-week high.

Outside our quality screen. No fair value estimate for now: its free cash flow is negative.

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Fair value est.
n/a
Market Value
forming
Off 52-wk high
−8%
Risk vs market
Lowbeta −0.13

4 bullish · 5 bearish See why

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Covered for reference — doesn’t pass our quality screen (market cap $18.3B, under our $20B floor; net debt 6.7× EBITDA (limit 3×)). We show its price, Market Value and DCF, but it never appears in Dips, Top Picks or reversal signals. The screen

Key levels

Every level vs today’s $71.65

  1. 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$63.21−11.8%
  2. PriceFri Oct 30 close$71.65you are here
  3. 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$78.03+8.9%

Fair value estimate

No estimate for LNT: negative free cash flow. We’d rather show nothing than a made-up number.

Risk vs market

How risk vs market is measured

One year of daily returns (Oct 30 to Oct 30, 252 sessions). Beta = how much LNT moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.

Low

Has moved mostly independently of the market, but its own price swings are 1.3× the S&P 500’s (it moves on its own news).

Beta vs S&P 500
-0.13
Volatility
17% vs 13% SPY
Correlation SPY
−0.09
Correlation QQQ
−0.24

Bull vs bear

Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.

Top bullish points 4 of 5

  1. Cash returnsDividend yield of 3.0% ($543M paid over 12 months, 58% of earnings).

  2. GrowthDiluted EPS grew 17% to $3.14 in FY2025.

  3. ProfitabilityGross margin of 86%, above the 56% median for the 14 Utilities companies we cover.

  4. ProfitabilityReturn on equity of 12%, above the 11% median for the 48 Utilities companies we cover.

Top bearish points 5 of 5

  1. ValuationFree cash flow is negative (−$777M over the last 12 months), so there’s no cash-flow value under the price.

  2. Balance sheetOperating income covers interest only 1.8× over the last 12 months.

  3. Balance sheetNet debt of $12.1B, 66% of the market cap (Sep 30, 2026).

  4. Balance sheetDebt rose 27% to $12.1B from FY2023 to FY2025.

  5. QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: net debt 6.7× EBITDA (limit 3×).

Who’s talking about it

Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on Alliant Energy in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.

No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 1, 9:09 PM ET.

Compare with peers

Closest in size in Power Generation

All fundamentals

P/E 19.6 · FCF yield -6.9% · ROE 12%

Valuation

P/E
19.6×Utilities median 21.2×
Price / FCF
n/anegative free cash flow
FCF yield
−6.9%
EV / EBITDA
16.0×
Price / sales
4.06×
Price / book
2.34×
Market cap
$18.3Blisted
Enterprise value
$30.4B

Growth

Revenue, 12 months
$4.5B
Sales growth, 12 months
+5.4%vs the 12 months before
Sales growth, 3 yrs
+1.2%/yrfrom FY2022
Diluted EPS, 12 months
$3.59
EPS growth, last FY
+16.7%
Net income, 12 months
$934M
Net income growth
+14%12 months vs before

Profitability

Gross margin
85.8%
Operating margin
22.6%
Net margin
20.7%
FCF margin
−27.9%
Return on equity
12%
Return on invested capital
5%

Balance sheet

Cash & short-term inv.
$26M
Total debt
$12.2B
Net cash
−$12.1B
Debt / equity
1.56×
Interest coverage
1.8×operating income / interest

Cash flow & returns

Free cash flow, 12 months
−$1.3B
FCF growth, 12 months
n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Dividend yield
2.97%$543M paid
Payout ratio
58%
Buybacks, 12 months
n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Share count, 1 year
+1.2%diluted shares vs a year ago
Stock-based comp
$38M

Trailing 12 months to Sep 30, 2026; balance sheet at Sep 30, 2026. From Alliant Energy’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.

Valuation details

How

Market ValueForming: thesis-changing filing on Oct 30, needs five trading days
forming
Fair value estimaten/a — negative free cash flow
n/a
FCF valueTrailing free cash flow is negative
n/a

Setup & signals

No setup armed

All setups

No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.

Momentum & 52-week range

RSI 69 · 5 days +2.9%
$71.65now
52-wk low $63.21high $78.03
Off 52-wk high−8.2%
5 days+2.9%
vs 50-day avg+7.0%
vs 200-day avg+1.6%
RSI (14)69
Market cap$18B

The business

FCF $-1.5B · Sales +6%
  • Free cash flow, 12 months−$1.5B
  • Free-cash-flow yield−8.4%
  • Free-cash-flow margin−34%
  • Gross margin45%
  • Operating margin30%
  • Return on invested capital5%
  • Return on equity12%
  • Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+6%
  • Net debt / EBITDA6.7×

Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.

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