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XEL · Xcel Energy Inc.
$77.86 -0.24% Oct 26 close
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$XEL
Xcel Energy Inc.Xcel Energy Inc. is a large-cap Electric Utilities company in the Utilities sector with a market cap of $49B.
Market Structure
Trend structure: downtrend
Latest event: bos
(bearish)
Resistance
81.50–82.30
· 7 touches · strong
Support
76.89–77.53
· 7 touches · strong
Resistance
82.57–83.18
· 6 touches · strong
Resistance
77.98–78.69
· 5 touches · strong
Support
76.05–76.18
· 5 touches · strong
Earnings
Pre-earnings setup
Next earnings
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Report time not confirmed by the source
Ordinary position sizing suppressed.
Earnings are less than three full trading sessions away; treat the gap as event risk, not ordinary stop-distance risk.
Deterministic evidence
XEL-0.24%
Sector proxy · XLU-0.02%
Broad market · SPY+0.71%
CatalystPending
Stock reactionNegative
Sector reactionWeak
Opening surgePending
Event riskEarnings-driven
Session internals Mixed
Rule: direction and internals disagree — it met neither the strong nor the weak rule. Judged on internals, not on the size of the move.
Vs prior close-0.24%
From the open-0.24%
Range position37%
GapNo gap
QQQ confirmationDiverging (+1.11%)
SMH confirmationDiverging (+2.74%)
Short-term conviction -2 points.
Price bars, sourced event fields, and benchmark math only. This can adjust displayed short-term conviction; it does not change the stored scanner score or readiness.
- QQQ, SMH moved against the stock — no index confirmation.
- A sourced earnings report is still pending inside the risk window; ordinary technical conviction is reduced until it is out.
Ask a Legend to interpret this evidence → Commentary only — never scanner evidence or a sizing recommendation.
More stats
52W Low
$68.72
Tight Wks
2
Base
B1
SMA 200
$78.18
ADR%
1.7%
ATR(14)
$1.32 (1.7%)
Vol Pace (live)
N/A
A/D Days
9A / 14D
A/D Rating
E
Power Trend
2d
Earnings
tomorrow
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Technical Analysis Report Card
$XEL · $77.86 · as of 2026-10-26 · multi-factor read
66
/ 100
Trend · Daily / Weekly / Monthly
Daily
▲ Recovering / early uptrend
Weekly
▬ Sideways / consolidating
Monthly
▬ Sideways / consolidating
Moving Averages
50-day$74.73 ↑
100-day$76.99 ↑
200-day$78.18 ↓
Bearish (50 < 200)
RSI (14)
Reading64.4 · Bullish
Bullish momentum — comfortably in buyer territory.
MACD (12/26/9)
StateBullish
Histogram+0.607
Bullish — MACD above its signal line and above zero. Histogram contracting.
Bollinger Bands (20,2)
%B / Width84% · 14.2%
Near the upper band — buyers in control.
Volume · Buyer vs Seller
Up/Down vol1.8 · Accumulation
Rel volume1.0×
Pocket pivots · 10d2
5d vs 50d vol106%
Heavy vol up / down2 / 0
Accumulation — volume is concentrated on up days; buyers dominate. Recent volume is easing versus its baseline.
- Pocket pivot 2 sessions ago — up-day volume beat every down day of the prior 10 sessions.
- 2 heavy-volume up days vs 0 down in the last 20 sessions.
Support & Resistance
R · $80.34swing level
R · $81.50swing level
R · $83.41swing level
Price · $77.86now
S · $77.61swing level
S · $74.71swing level
S · $68.7252-week low
Fibonacci · Downtrend swing
23.6%$72.06
38.2%$74.13
50.0%$75.80
61.8% ◄ price here$77.47
78.6%$79.85
Retracement resistance zones measured from the recent swing high down to the low.
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Daily uptrendBelow 200-day MA50/200 bearishVolume accumulation
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Base & Breakout
Breakout follow-through
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RS Line vs SPY
52-week relative strength · blue = RS line · dashed = MA50 · dot = NH
Accumulation / Distribution
last 65 sessions · green = acc on high vol · red = dist on high vol
Net -1
No patterns detected
This symbol didn't match any pattern in the latest scan.
Minervini Trend Template
3/8Grades the price structure — moving-average stacking, distance from the 52-week high/low, and relative strength above the ≥70 uptrend bar. This is the technical trend check; the company's fundamentals and ≥80 RS leadership are scored separately in the Grade Card.
Price above SMA 150 & 200
$77.86 vs SMA150 $77.94 / SMA200 $78.18
SMA 150 above SMA 200
SMA150 $77.94 vs SMA200 $78.18
SMA 200 trending up
Slope +0.02 over 20 days
SMA 50 above SMA 150 & 200
SMA50 $74.73
Price above SMA 50
$77.86 vs SMA50 $74.73
30%+ above 52-week low
+13.3% from $68.72
Within 25% of 52-week high
-7.6% from $84.23
RS score above 70
RS 50
Fundamentals
52W Range
59%
Mkt Cap SEC
48.6B
EPS QoQ
-4%
Rev YoY
+1%
ROE
9%
Gross Margin
40%
D/E
1.49
EPS TTM
$3.42
P/E TTM
22.8x
Float
625M
Insider
No Buy
Company
Company profile
Xcel Energy Inc.
Scan History
Jul 29
watchlist_candidate
0
Jul 28
watchlist_candidate
0
-3.1%
Jul 27
watchlist_candidate
0
-3.5%
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