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10 segments · 35 companies

Utilities & Power Grid

+4.0%chain · 1M

Equipment, generation and network investment support power service; regulation, fuel costs and load shape returns.

  • The Utilities & Power Grid covers 10 segments and 35 companies, 1 of them chokepoints.
  • Over the past month the chain's median listed company returned +4.0%, against 0.0% for the S&P 500.
  • The strongest segment is Gas networks & distribution (+6.1%) and the weakest Competitive generation (+2.8%), a 3.3-point spread.

The chain, stage by stage

Upstream on the left, end demand on the right. Figures are 1-month returns; the segment shows its median.

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ElectricityGas
Equipment & construction
Grid equipment & construction−2.6%
Solar modules−12.9%
Generation & fuel
Competitive generation+2.8%
Networks & retail
Retail power−2.9%
Utility service
Northeast & Mid-Atlantic utilities+2.9%
Southeast & Gulf Coast utilities+4.3%
Western utilities+3.9%
Gas networks & distribution+6.1%
Energy demand
Data centers, homes & industry+2.9%

Which segments are leading

Median price return of the listed companies in each segment.

Gas networks & distribution+6.1%
Midwest & Plains utilities+5.7%
Southeast & Gulf Coast utilities+4.3%
Western utilities+3.9%
Northeast & Mid-Atlantic utilities+2.9%
Data centers, homes & industry+2.9%
Competitive generation+2.8%
Grid equipment & construction−2.6%
Retail power−2.9%
Solar modules−12.9%
S&P 5000.0%
Data centers, homes & industry+12.3%
Competitive generation−1.8%
Midwest & Plains utilities−5.8%
Gas networks & distribution−7.4%
Northeast & Mid-Atlantic utilities−8.4%
Southeast & Gulf Coast utilities−8.6%
Grid equipment & construction−10.2%
Solar modules−15.1%
Western utilities−25.0%
Retail power−30.0%
S&P 500+4.7%
Grid equipment & construction+56.1%
Data centers, homes & industry+21.2%
Western utilities+1.9%
Midwest & Plains utilities−1.0%
Southeast & Gulf Coast utilities−1.7%
Gas networks & distribution−5.0%
Northeast & Mid-Atlantic utilities−7.4%
Competitive generation−19.4%
Solar modules−23.7%
Retail power−39.7%
S&P 500+15.8%

Chokepoints

Concentrated, hard-to-replace links that can cap the whole chain.

Grid equipment & construction · GE Vernova gas backlog and slot reservations hit 62 GW in 3Q25

Data-center and power demand has booked large gas turbines years ahead; few makers can build them and expansion is slow, pacing new generation.

Key numbers

2026 US power generation growth (record)+2.2%EIA · Record electricity generation in 2026 and 2027

Sources

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