Duke Energy Corporation (DUK) scored on five pillars from its reported financial statements, and ranked against 52 Utilities companies.
Duke Energy Corporation (DUK) scores 4.0 out of 10 as of , computed from its reported financial statements. That reads as mixed quality. The reading rests on growth, and solvency is what holds it back.
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Duke Energy Corporation (DUK) has a Lemma Quality Score of 4.0 out of 10 as of October 17, 2026, which reads as mixed quality. A mixed reading means the strengths and weaknesses roughly cancel out, and the case for the business depends on which pillars you care about most. Five pillars feed it, and every one of them is computed from what the company reported rather than from its share price.
Among the 52 Utilities companies with a published score, that ranks at the 55th percentile, in the upper half of the group, short of the top quarter. The median across the group is 3.9, and the top quarter begins at 4.4, so Duke Energy Corporation is in line with the typical company here.
Duke Energy Corporation’s profitability score is 4.9 out of 10 (average). Against a median of 4.8 among 49 Utilities companies, that is in line with the group and the 54th percentile. Profitability in the middle of the range is neither a moat nor a warning: margins and returns look like those of an ordinary business in this line of work.
Duke Energy Corporation’s solvency score is 2.5 out of 10 (weak). Against a median of 2.9 among 49 Utilities companies, that is in line with the group and the 30th percentile. A low reading here is a question about resilience: how long the company could keep paying its obligations if earnings dropped.
Duke Energy Corporation’s growth score is 5.4 out of 10 (average). Against a median of 4.9 among 47 Utilities companies, that is above the group and the 67th percentile. Average growth reflects a business expanding at roughly the pace of its sector, without a clear acceleration or decline.
Duke Energy Corporation’s efficiency score is 2.7 out of 10 (weak). Against a median of 3.0 among 51 Utilities companies, that is in line with the group and the 34th percentile. Weak efficiency means more capital is tied up to produce each unit of output, or less of reported profit is arriving as cash.
On predictability, Duke Energy Corporation scores 4.0, an average reading. Its peers have a median of 3.5 across 51 Utilities companies, which places it above them, at the 68th percentile. An average predictability reading means results have wobbled about as much as is normal for the sector.
The profile is uneven. Growth leads at 5.4 while solvency trails at 2.5, a gap of 2.9 points, so the overall averages a clear strength against a clear soft spot. A growth lead says the business is expanding faster than it is doing anything else well, which is worth checking against predictability. A solvency shortfall makes the business more exposed to rising rates and to a weak year.
Every scored pillar is at or above the median of Utilities companies, so there is no catch-up left to lift the overall. The risk runs the other way: a one point fall in profitability, the heaviest of them, would take the score from 4.0 to about 3.8. All five pillars could be scored, so the overall uses the full set of weights out of 100: profitability 25, solvency 20, growth 20, efficiency 15, predictability 20.
These are the Utilities companies closest to Duke Energy Corporation in market value. Each has its own page scored on the same five pillars, so the comparison is like for like.
How much profit the company generates from its capital and sales.
The company’s ability to service debt and meet its obligations.
How fast revenue, earnings and cash flow are compounding.
How well assets and earnings convert into cash and output.
How stable and consistent results have been over time.
Each metric is scored from 0 to 10 against sector-aware benchmarks, where higher is better. Metrics roll up into five pillars, and the pillars combine into the overall score using the weights shown. Sector-sensitive metrics are judged relative to peers in the same sector.
This score is a systematic, backward-looking read of reported fundamentals. It does not judge valuation, management quality, competitive moat, or future prospects, and can be distorted by one-off items or unusual accounting. Treat it as a starting point, not a recommendation.
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On this reading Duke Energy Corporation scores 4.0 out of 10, which reads as mixed quality. Its strongest pillar is growth, its weakest is solvency. Quality is not the same as a good investment: the score says nothing about the price you would pay.
Duke Energy Corporation ranks at the 55th percentile of the 52 Utilities companies Lemma publishes a score for. The median there is 3.9 and the top quarter starts at 4.4, against Duke Energy Corporation’s 4.0.
Five pillars, each scored from 0 to 10 against sector-aware benchmarks and then weighted into one overall reading: profitability, solvency, growth, efficiency and predictability. Everything comes from reported financials, and nothing comes from price, sentiment or forecasts.
This page last changed on October 17, 2026. The score moves with the financial statements, so the page changes when a new filing moves the reading rather than on a schedule. Live figures for DUK are in the app.
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