NWE Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Northwestern Energy Group | NASDAQ:NWE)

NorthWestern Energy Group Inc provides electricity and natural gas services in the Upper Midwest and Northwest of the U.S. in the states of Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Yellowstone National Park. The company's primary segments include Electric, which includes the generation, purchase, transmission, and distribution of electricity, and Natural Gas, which includes the production, purchase, transmission, storage, and distribution of natural gas. It uses thermal, wind, hydro, or renewable energy in varying quantities, depending on the location of the facilities, to generate power. The company derives the majority of its revenue from the Electric segment.

Northwestern Energy Group trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol NWE.

As of April 30, 2026, NWE stock price climbed to $72.34 with 409,759 million shares trading.

NWE has a beta of 0.25, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. NWE has a correlation of 0.02 to the broad based SPY ETF.

NWE has a market cap of $4.45 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Northwestern Energy Group reported $498 million in Revenue and $1.31 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-8 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.02.

In the last 3 years, NWE traded as high as $75.18 and as low as $45.97.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that NWE belongs to (by Net Assets): IJH, VTI, IWM, VB, VBR.

NWE has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +26.0% while the SPY ETF gained +31.0%. However, in the short term, NWE had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +8.0% vs +3.8% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, NWE shares have been beat by the market, returning -1.4% compared to an SPY return of +2.7%.

NWE support price is $69.98 and resistance is $72.70 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that NWE shares will trade within this expected range on the day.