Wec Energy Group, Inc. (WEC) Stock — Forensic Analysis, Red Flags & Rating | Stockonomy · Stockonomy
Forensic Analysis · Utilities · as of Sep 24, 2026
Wec Energy Group, Inc. (WEC)
A forensic read on Wec Energy Group, Inc. built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.
B · Sound & dependable
Forensic grade
Grey Zone
Financial health
1.5
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
3
Forensic signals
19.9
P / E (ttm)
11.1%
ROE
$33.0B
Market cap
3.29%
Dividend yield
14.0%
Revenue growth
This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence, going concern, valuation). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.
Wec Energy Group, Inc. earns a B (Sound & dependable) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 1.5, placing it in the Grey zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by share-count dilution.
What the filings flag
+1.2%/yr
FY2023–FY2025
Share-count dilution.Diluted share count changed +3% over the last 2 years to FY2025 (+1.2%/yr). The count is growing: more stock was issued than repurchased over this window, so aggregate results grew faster than their per-share equivalents. That's ~1.2% shaved off per-share growth every year — total profit has to grow that much just to keep earnings-per-share flat, and a stake held since FY2023 has been diluted ~2%.
FCF ($1.0B)
FY2025
Shareholder returns.Returned $1.1B to shareholders (buybacks + dividends) in FY2025, but free cash flow was ($1.0B) after capex — there was no free cash flow to fund the payout from at all, though operating cash flow alone was $3.4B — 34% of that. The entire return is coming from debt or cash reserves, not cash the business itself generated — a harder case than returns merely running ahead of free cash flow, since here there was none to run ahead of.
4.3%
FY2025
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is 4.3% in the latest fiscal year and steady across FY2023–FY2025, inside a 0.1-point range. The capital base behind it grew +18% across FY2023–FY2025, from $40.0B to $47.4B, and the return did not fall doing it, so the dollars added over that window earned at least the 4% the older base was already earning.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$9.80B
Revenue Growth YoY+14.0%
Revenue CAGR (2yr)+5.0%
Net Margin15.9%
Free Cash Flow-$1.02B
Return on Equity11.1%
Debt / Equity1.42x
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