Algonquin Power & Utilities Cor (AQN) Stock Analysis
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Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $5.76: Quality below floor (4.0 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 5.5/10. Specifically: Below-average business quality; Negative price momentum; Below long-term trend.
Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. operates in the power and utility industries. It owns and operates a portfolio of regulated electric, water distribution and wastewater collection, and natural gas utility systems and transmission operations. As of December 31, 2025, it operated... Read more
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $5.76: Quality below floor (4.0 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 5.5/10. Specifically: Below-average business quality; Negative price momentum; Below long-term trend. Chart setup: No recognized chart pattern (not a breakout, bounce, continuation, recovery, falling knife, or range) — technicals mixed. Score 5.5/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 6/8 gates (clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, news events none recent, earnings proximity 79d clear, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Fails on weak momentum and favorable risk/reward ratio. Suitability: aggressive.
Recent Developments — Algonquin Power & Utilities Cor
Latest news
- Starboard Value Decreases Stake In Algonquin Power & Utilities To 57,189,420 Shares; Becton Dickinson To 636,494 Shares; — benzinga May 15, 2026 negative
- Reported Earlier, Algonquin Power's Liberty Utilities Prices $650M Notes At 5.100% Due 2031 And $500M At 5.650% Due 2036 — benzinga May 13, 2026 positive
- Wells Fargo Initiates Coverage On Algonquin Power with Equal-Weight Rating, Announces Price Target of $7 — benzinga May 12, 2026
- Algonquin Power Q1 Adj. EPS $0.13 Beats $0.12 Estimate, Sales $792.400M Beat $710.800M Estimate — benzinga May 8, 2026 positive
- CIBC Maintains Neutral on Algonquin Power, Raises Price Target to $6.5 — benzinga Apr 20, 2026 neutral
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1 floor-breaker
Price action weak — below key moving averages, no momentum carry. Needs a base before trend-continuation setups apply.static
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Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $5.76: Quality below floor (4.0 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 5.5/10. Specifically: Below-average business quality; Negative price momentum; Below long-term trend. Chart setup: No recognized chart pattern (not a breakout, bounce, continuation, recovery, falling knife, or range) — technicals mixed. Prior stop was $5.54. Score 5.5/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $5.92 (+2.8% upside). Prior stop was $5.54. Stop-loss: $5.54.
Target reached (2.7% upside); Quality below floor (4.0 < 4.0).
Algonquin Power & Utilities Cor trades at a P/E of 22.2 (forward 14.3). TrendMatrix value score: 7.2/10. Verdict: Sell.
13 analysts cover AQN with a consensus score of 3.6/5. Average price target: $7.
What does Algonquin Power & Utilities Cor do?Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. operates in the power and utility industries. It owns and operates a portfolio of...
Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. operates in the power and utility industries. It owns and operates a portfolio of regulated electric, water distribution and wastewater collection, and natural gas utility systems and transmission operations. As of December 31, 2025, it operated a portfolio of regulated utility systems in the United States, Canada, Bermuda, and Chile, serving approximately 1,272,000 customer connections. Its regulated electrical distribution utility systems and related transmission and generation assets are located in the states of Arkansas, California, Kansas, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma, as well as in Bermuda with approximately 311,000 electric customer connections. Its regulated water distribution and wastewater utility systems are located in the states of Arizona, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Missouri, New York, and Texas, as well as in Chile with approximately 583,000 customer connections. It's regulated natural gas distribution utility systems are located in the states of Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, and New York; and in the Canadian province of New Brunswick with approximately 378,000 natural gas customer connections. It also owns and operates generating assets with a gross capacity of approximately 2.0 gigawatt (GW) and has investments in generating assets with approximately 0.3 GW of net generation capacity. It generates and sells hydroelectric energy in Canada, and capacity and renewable attributes are produced by its portfolio of 14 hydroelectric power generation facilities located in the provinces of Alberta, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Quebec. As of December 31, 2025, it had a combined gross generating capacity of approximately 112 megawatts (MW) and a combined net generating capacity of approximately 105 MW. The company was formerly known as Traduction Militech Translation Inc. in October 2009. The company was incorporated in 1988 and is headquartered in Oakville, Canada.