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PG&E Corp. is the holding company for Pacific Gas & Electric Co., an investor-owned utility. The utility provides electricity to 5.5 million accounts and natural gas to 4.5 million accounts in northern and central California. Electricity accounted for about 71% of 2023 revenues. The company's customer base is weighted toward residential and small business customers. In 2023, 43% of GWh sales was from residential customers, and 37% was from smaller commercial customers. About 80% of 2023 bundled gas sales was from residential customers. PG&E is also a large operator of underground natural gas storage fields in California. As of the end of 2023, the utility had 26 GWh of generating capacity with an owned generation fuel mix including 25% from natural gas, 15% hydropower, 2% renewable, and 58% nuclear. Purchased power is 35% renewably sourced. The company had planned to shut down the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant by 2025 as management said that it could not afford to run the plant. However, regulators supported the plant, and PCG has now applied for a license and federal aid to continue to operate Diablo Canyon. PCG received favorable case decisions in 2023. In May 2022, PCG said that it had met the requirements for inclusion in the S&P 500 after four straight quarters of GAAP earnings. Its market cap is just under $50 billion.

The Nasdaq is down more than 1%. Other major indices are flat. Earnings reports are driving action for individual stocks. Many retailers are still reporting with mixed stories on last quarter. In case you haven't heard, AI behemoth Nvidia reports after-the-bell.

Entergy Corp. is an integrated energy company engaged primarily in electric power production and retail distribution. Entergy owns and operates power plants with approximately 24,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity. The company's regulated utilities deliver electricity to 3 million customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, and natural gas to 194,000 customers in Louisiana. The company has 12,000 employees.

The last trading week of August started with a mixed bag. On Monday (8/26/2024), the Nasdaq and the Nasdaq 100 were dragged down from the start due to a tough day for semiconductors. The iShares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX) fell 2.5% and was sitting on short-term support from its 10- and 21-day exponential moving averages. The SOXX has had a big recovery since the August 5 intraday low, so it's not surprising that some anxiety was building. Discretionary also fell due to weakness in Tesla. Energy led the 11 S&P 500 sectors, as crude oil (WTI) bounced for a third day. Crude was back up to $77/barrel from a low last week of $71.46. The oil chart is a mess, with prices chopping around from the low $60s to the mid-$90s since the summer of 2022. Other sector strength was seen from the defensive Staples and Utilities groups, with minor gains in Materials, Financials, and Communication Services. A fair amount of people in the financial world have said that the S&P 500's almost full recovery from the pullback in the second half of July into early August has been too fast. But quick recoveries and 'V' bottoms generally are quite bullish and often lead to additional all-time highs. On the weekly charts, we had quick recoveries in the latter part of 2023 and in April/May of this year. And let's not forget the recovery from the pandemic, the recovery in early 2019, the recovery in 2014, and the several recoveries in 2012.