National Grid

NGG

Market cap $84.4B

National Grid PLC (LSE:NG.), Associated British Foods PLC (LSE:ABF) and Kingfisher PLC (LSE:KGF) are among the companies acting as a drag on the FTSE 100 on Thursday, as part of a busy batch of blue-chip stocks trading ex-dividend.

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UK utility shares face a potentially extended period of political and financial pressure after suffering their fourth-largest single-day decline since privatisation on Friday, according to UBS, which warned that the last two comparable episodes of government intervention risk took around two years to clear. The sector fell 7.5% on 15 May, nearly three times the 2.8% decline across continental European utilities, in a move UBS attributed to a sharp rise in gilt yields and growing concerns about the future ownership structure of the industry.

National Grid plc (NGG) Q4 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Shares in listed utility companies fell sharply on Friday, with National Grid PLC (LSE:NG.), United Utilities Group PLC (LSE:UU.), Severn Trent PLC (LSE:SVT) and SSE PLC (LSE:SSE) each declining between 4% and 5%, as a confluence of domestic political instability and global inflationary pressures drove gilt yields to levels not seen in decades.

National Grid Transco NYSE: NGG said it delivered stronger full-year earnings and laid out a five-year investment plan centered on grid expansion, demand growth from data centers and electrification, and operational improvements across its U.K. and U.S. businesses.

BOSTON, May 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Air Space Intelligence (ASI), a pioneer in AI for the world's most demanding operational domains, today announced a collaboration with National Grid, one of the largest electric and gas utilities in the United States, to deliver AI-powered decision support for electric grid planning and operations. The effort will apply ASI's predictive modeling and scenario optimization capabilities to a range of critical grid challenges, including resilience planning, outage detection, and energy storage deployment, helping reduce costs and time in the field.

National Grid (NGG) might move higher on growing optimism about its earnings prospects, which is reflected by its upgrade to a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).

UBS has kept its 'sell' rating on National Grid PLC (LSE:NG.), arguing the utility's rich valuation has already priced in much of the good news and leaving its 1,160p price target below the current share price.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GridCARE, the company accelerating time-to-power for artificial intelligence, and National Grid (NYSE: NGG) today announced a collaboration that aims to more quickly connect large-load customers to the power grid while reducing costs for new infrastructure. Utilities are seeing a surge in requests for new large loads, thanks to the reshoring of manufacturing and the global rise of AI infrastructure. Data center developers, for instance, often face delays o.