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Research Alert: CFRA Maintains Buy Opinion On Shares Of Dte Energy Company

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-- CFRA, an independent research provider, has providedwith the following research alert. Analysts at CFRA have summarized their opinion as follows:

We raise our 12-month target by $3 to $165, reflecting a 20.7x forward P/E on our next-12-month EPS estimate. We lower our 2026 EPS view by $0.05 to $7.76 and raise our 2027 EPS view by $0.01 to $8.40. In March 2026, DTE executed a 1 GW data center agreement with Google and filed contracts with the MPSC for approval; a decision is expected by September 2026. The Google data center agreement complements the previously approved 1.4 GW Oracle project. The agreement is structured to deliver approximately $1.7B in affordability benefits for existing customers over the contract life, while requiring Google to pay the full cost of energy usage, including all related infrastructure investments. DTE intends to pause future electric rate requests for at least two years following its most recent request, dependent on the Oracle data center coming online by 2027. On a compound annual basis from 2025 to 2028, we anticipate approximately 7.5% EPS and 6.8% dividend growth, highly competitive with multi-utilities peers.

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Research Alert: CFRA Retains Buy Rating On Shares Of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated

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