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 May 29, 2026, NWE stock price declined to $70.61 with 640,154 million shares trading.

NWE has a beta of 0.33, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. NWE has a correlation of 0.03 to the broad based SPY ETF.

NWE has a market cap of $4.34 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 outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +33.1%, while the SPY ETF gained +29.5%. However, in the most recent history, NWE shares have underperformed the stock market with its stock returning +1.9% in the last 3 month period and +0.5% for the last 2 week period, while SPY has returned +10.5% and +2.3%, respectively.

NWE support price is $69.81 and resistance is $71.95 (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.