Dominion downgraded at Evercore ISI, newest to step away on enterprise evaluation (NYSE:D)

Dominion Power (NYSE:D) stays mired close to nine-year lows, -2.2% in Thursday’s buying and selling, after Evercore ISI turns into the newest agency to difficulty a downgrade, anticipating shares will keep rangebound till the corporate’s This autumn earnings name in February that seemingly will embody findings from the “top-to-bottom” enterprise evaluation.

Reducing its score to In-Line from Outperform with a $78 worth goal, Evercore believes Dominion (D) might “take actions to change the regulatory assemble in Virginia to deal with investor considerations across the triennial evaluation/ over earnings danger ($0.40-$0.45 annual EPS)” as a part of the evaluation course of.

Evercore mentioned it met lately with administration on the EEI convention in Florida, the place the corporate reiterated its view that relative inventory efficiency in recent times has been disappointing regardless of delivering outcomes and attaining constructive regulatory outcomes.

Dominion (D) has been dinged by no less than 4 analyst cuts for the reason that enterprise evaluation announcement, together with from J.P. Morgan, Credit score Suisse and Wolfe Analysis.

Anticipating an earnings “reset” from the enterprise evaluation, Financial institution of America lately downgraded shares by two notches to Underperform from Purchase.