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NextEra Energy$NEE · filed: grew revenue 9.8% in FY2025 to $25.8BSound shipTrillion Score 523Fall Risk MediumNext year $23.6B–$30.0B sealedCheck ▾Close ▴
What NextEra Energy filed
Grew revenue 9.8% in FY2025 to $25.8 billion, operating margin 32.1% against a 20.3% median for electric services, equity 25.7% of assets, and dividend per share up 7 years running. Every figure links to the filing it came from on NextEra Energy’s card. Sound ship: one warning sign. Trillion Score 523, #11 of 39 in its field; Fall Risk Medium (how it is measured).
What the house said in advance
Revenue for the fiscal year after 2025-12-31 between $23.6B and $30.0B, an 80% range sealed on 24 Sept 2026 · receipt #f10ee8 · graded in public by the revenue in NextEra Energy’s next annual report.
Figures as filed with the SEC. Ranges, scores and boats are statistical descriptions of past filings, not ratings or recommendations. Reporting, not advice.
In plain words
NextEra bought Dominion's Virginia nuclear and gas assets to own the co-location negotiation with hyperscalers, not legacy customers.
$67 billion
The combined utility will serve
10 million
customers across Florida
7.5 gigawatts
of nuclear and gas generation in Virginia
70 percent
of global internet traffic through its data center alley…
NextEra Energy announced May 18, 2026 it will acquire Dominion Energy in an all-stock transaction valuing the combined entity at $67 billion. The combined utility will serve 10 million customers across Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina—the exact footprint where hyperscalers are racing to secure power commitments for AI training clusters.
NextEra already operates the largest regulated electric utility in the United States. Dominion brings 7.5 gigawatts of nuclear and gas generation in Virginia, the state that hosts 70 percent of global internet traffic through its data center alley in Loudoun County. The deal closes regulatory gaps that have slowed co-location agreements in the Mid-Atlantic. Both companies cited accelerating data center load growth as the primary strategic rationale. Dominion's CEO Robert Blue said during the announcement call that the company fielded inquiries for 6 gigawatts of new capacity in Virginia alone over the past 18 months—more than the state's entire residential load.
The transaction arrives as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission reviews co-location rules that determine how data centers connect directly to power plants. March 2026 FERC guidance created ambiguity around whether such agreements unfairly shift grid costs to retail customers. NextEra's scale and regulatory relationships position it to navigate those disputes more effectively than Dominion could standalone. The combined company will have 25 percent more regulatory staff and a balance sheet capable of underwriting the $40 billion in transmission upgrades PJM Interconnection has flagged as necessary by 2030. Florida's existing data center market remains thin, but NextEra has been quietly filing for 500-megawatt generation additions near Miami since late 2025—moves that now make sense as demand-side prep work.
Allocators should watch three developments over the next 12 to 18 months. First, whether NextEra announces co-location agreements with Microsoft, Amazon, or Google within 90 days of deal close—those would signal the company secured informal FERC comfort before signing. Second, how aggressively Virginia's State Corporation Commission challenges the transaction during the six-month regulatory review. Dominion has fought with regulators over cost recovery; NextEra inherits that friction. Third, whether NextEra divests Dominion's gas distribution assets in North Carolina, which overlap with Duke Energy's territory and face antitrust scrutiny.
The price implies a 16 percent premium to Dominion's May 16 close, modest for a sector consolidation of this size. NextEra is paying in stock because its market multiple—22x forward earnings versus Dominion's 14x—creates natural acquisition currency. The deal also locks in regulated rate base growth without the construction risk of new plants, a hedge if FERC ultimately restricts direct data center connections and forces hyperscalers back onto the shared grid.
Dominion shareholders receive 0.9 shares of NextEra for each share held. No cash option exists, forcing long-term holders to decide whether they believe in NextEra's Florida-to-Virginia buildout thesis or prefer to exit entirely. The combined company will have consolidated rate base authority to invest $150 billion through 2030 without returning to state commissions for approval, the largest such authorization in US utility history. NextEra is making a $67 billion bet that the grid's next decade looks more like AWS infrastructure than century-old public service.
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For the principal
Track FERC's co-location rule finalization in Q3 2026—the deal's IRR depends entirely on whether direct connections survive.
For the operator
Watch for NextEra announcing 1+ gigawatt Microsoft or AWS deals within 90 days—that signals regulatory pre-clearance was secured.
For the house
Long NextEra equity, short Duke Energy—the former owns the data center corridor, the latter faces stranded Carolinas capacity.
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