MGE Energy
MGEE on Nasdaq. MGE Energy sells electricity and natural gas to homes and businesses. Market value $2.6bn.
Price checks use the past 12 months to June 2026. Quality checks use five annual reports, the latest for the year to December 2025.
Should I look at this?
Good business, but not cheap right now
Why it could be worth it
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For every $100 of what the whole company costs, it produced $-6.36 of spare cash in the past 12 months. A savings account pays about $4.
You pay 20.7 years of operating profit for the business. The average large US company costs around 18.
Each dollar kept in the business earns 6 cents a year. Above 10 is good.
Quality score: 76 of 100. Price score: 49 of 100. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.
$70.27 a share, 3% above its 1-year low
Over the past year the price has ranged from $68.01 to $87.94.
Dividend: 2.6% a year
Paid every year for at least 5 years
Prices from Monday’s close (5 October).
Five years of cash, in billions
Spare cash swings from quarter to quarter here: a shortfall of $164 million in the past 12 months, a shortfall of $80 million in the year to December 2025.
| Revenue | |||||
| Revenue | $607m | $715m | $690m | $677m | $744m |
| Operating margin | |||||
| Operating margin | 19.3% | 19.3% | 21.2% | 21.6% | 22.9% |
| Debt to equity | |||||
| Debt to equity | 0.63 | 0.67 | 0.69 | 0.64 | 0.71 |
| Shares outstanding | |||||
| Shares outstanding | 0.04bn | 0.04bn | 0.04bn | 0.04bn | 0.04bn |
Health checks
- Free cash flow positive2 of 5 years
- Accounting looks honest (Beneish)Not enough data
- Financial strength (Piotroski)4 of 8 checks we could run
- Profit backed by cash (accruals)Yes
- Debt0.71× equity
- Revenue growth, five yearsSlow, 6.7% a year
- Buying back its own sharesRoughly flat
The quarter to June 2026
How the business did, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.
- Sales: $161 million last quarter, up 1% on a year ago.
- Profit: $33 million, up 26% on a year ago.
- It keeps 22 cents of each $1 of sales as operating profit, down from 23 cents a year earlier.
- Over the past 12 months it spent $164 million more cash than it brought in. A year earlier it had $44 million spare.
- 2% more shares than a year ago. Each share owns a bit less of the company.
- Debt is $918 million more than cash, up from $762 million a year ago.
- Sales grew on a year ago in each of the last 4 quarters.
| Quarter to | Amount |
|---|---|
| September 2024 | $168m |
| December 2024 | $171m |
| March 2025 | $219m |
| June 2025 | $159m |
| September 2025 | $176m |
| December 2025 | $190m |
| March 2026 | $243m |
| June 2026 | $161m |
| Quarter to | Amount |
|---|---|
| September 2024 | $41m |
| December 2024 | $22m |
| March 2025 | $42m |
| June 2025 | $26m |
| September 2025 | $44m |
| December 2025 | $23m |
| March 2026 | $48m |
| June 2026 | $33m |
From the company's quarterly reports to the SEC.
Dates
- Next results (estimated)
- n/a
- Last annual report (10-K)
- 24 February 2026
- Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
- 4 November 2026
Who owns it
2 long-term investors we follow own it, up from 1 last quarter. 337 funds in all.
| Fund | Value | Share of that fund | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mairs & PowerAndy Adams | $1m | <0.1% | New |
| GAMCO InvestorsMario Gabelli | $636,012 | <0.1% | New |
Sold out this quarter
- Royce & AssociatesChuck RoyceSold out
Largest holders overall
- BlackRock$497mAdded
- Vanguard Portfolio Management$228mAdded
- State Street$167mAdded
- Vanguard Capital Management$139mAdded
- Geode Capital Management$82mAdded
- Zimmer Partners, LP$82mNew
- Dimensional Fund Advisors LP$57mAdded
- Morgan Stanley$44mAdded
- Westwood Holdings Group$43mNew
- Gabelli Funds$42mAdded
From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.
Big holders and activists
4 investors own more than 5%.
- BlackRock, Inc.Passive investor15.4%Since 30 September 2025
- Vanguard Portfolio ManagementPassive investor7.3%Since 31 March 2026
- STATE STREET CORPORATIONPassive investor5.4%Since 31 March 2025
- Vanguard Capital ManagementPassive investor5.3%Since 31 March 2026
- The Vanguard GroupPassive investorSold down below 5%Since 13 March 2026
| Holder | Stake | Since | |
|---|---|---|---|
BlackRock, Inc. Passive investor | 15.4% | 30 September 2025 | |
Vanguard Portfolio Management Passive investor | 7.3% | 31 March 2026 | |
STATE STREET CORPORATION Passive investor | 5.4% | 31 March 2025 | |
Vanguard Capital Management Passive investor | 5.3% | 31 March 2026 | |
The Vanguard Group Passive investor | Sold down below 5% | 13 March 2026 |
From Schedule 13D and 13G filings: anyone owning more than 5% must file one.
What insiders did
In the last 12 months, 1 insider bought $92,720 of shares on the open market.
- Berbee James GDirectorBought
- Date
- 9 September 2026
- Shares
- 275
- Price
- $77.35
- Value
- $21,251
- Berbee James GDirectorBought
- Date
- 19 August 2026
- Shares
- 261
- Price
- $81.30
- Value
- $21,249
- Berbee James GDirectorBought
- Date
- 11 March 2026
- Shares
- 373
- Price
- $77.74
- Value
- $28,985
- Berbee James GDirectorBought
- Date
- 5 December 2025
- Shares
- 270
- Price
- $78.57
- Value
- $21,235
| Date | Who | Did | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2026 | Berbee James G Director | Bought | 275 | $77.35 | $21,251 |
| 19 August 2026 | Berbee James G Director | Bought | 261 | $81.30 | $21,249 |
| 11 March 2026 | Berbee James G Director | Bought | 373 | $77.74 | $28,985 |
| 5 December 2025 | Berbee James G Director | Bought | 270 | $78.57 | $21,235 |
From Form 4 filings: insiders must report trades in their own company's shares within two days.
Warning signs in its filings
Problems the company itself reported to the SEC, in its own words.
None of the warning signs we check for were found.
We look for five warning signs: doubt it can keep going, weak checks on its own accounts, a notice that its past accounts can't be relied on, a change of auditor, and one customer bringing in a big share of sales. We don't check lawsuits, investigations or debt yet.
We checked the auditor's report, internal controls, restatement notices, auditor changes and big customers in the 10-K filed 24 Feb 2026, plus the 10-Q filed 5 Aug 2026 and 9 later 8-Ks.
A 10-K is the yearly report every US company files with the SEC. An 8-K is a short notice of a big event.
What could go wrong
Cheap for a reason is the question the numbers cannot answer.
Whether the price already reflects the risks is what the deep dive is for.
The deep dive
Everything above is arithmetic on public filings. The deep dive reads the last ten years of annual reports, the proxy statements, and the earnings calls, then argues the case the way Buffett, Klarman, and Hohn would, and checks every claim against the source.
- What the business is worth, as a range, and the margin of safety at today’s price
- Prices to start buying, buy, and buy hard
- The three things that would make this a mistake
- Every number footnoted to the filing it came from
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Not advice. Numbers on this page come from SEC filings and are updated each night; prices are updated again after the US market closes. The five-year figures are rounded.