FirstEnergy vs Baker Hughes
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Akron OH Midwest/Mid-Atlantic regulated utility (NYSE: FE) ~$13.5B FY2024 revenue; HB 6 scandal recovery complete, $26B 2024-2028 capex, 6M customers in 6 states, data center NJ growth competing with AEP and Exelon.
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FirstEnergy Corp. is an Akron, Ohio-based regulated electric utility holding company — publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FE) as an S&P 500 Utilities component — providing electric transmission and distribution service to approximately 6 million customers across six states (Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New Jersey, Maryland, New York) through regulated utility subsidiaries including Ohio Edison, Cleveland Electric Illuminating, Toledo Edison, Pennsylvania Power, The Illuminating Company, Monongahela Power, Potomac Edison, Jersey Central Power & Light, Met-Ed, Penn Power, and West Penn Power through approximately 12,000 employees. FirstEnergy is in the final stages of reputational and operational recovery from a historic corporate governance scandal: in 2020, FirstEnergy admitted to paying $60 million in bribes to Ohio utility regulators and state legislators (including former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder) to secure passage of HB 6 — a $1.3 billion nuclear plant bailout law that was later repealed — resulting in criminal convictions, executive departures, shareholder class action settlements, and a $230 million DOJ deferred prosecution agreement. In fiscal year 2024, FirstEnergy reported revenues of approximately $13.5 billion, with the company executing CEO Brian Tierney's (joined 2023) strategy of rebuilding regulatory trust, improving operational performance, and executing the $26 billion capital plan (2024-2028) for grid modernization, electric vehicle infrastructure, and smart meter installation across the six-state service territory. FirstEnergy's 2021 divestiture of its competitive power generation business (FirstEnergy Solutions — renamed Evolent Energy Resources, including the Davis-Besse and Perry nuclear plants in Ohio) simplified FirstEnergy to a pure regulated utility — eliminating the commodity generation exposure that had distorted earnings and contributed to the improper HB 6 lobbying motivation.
Houston oilfield services and energy technology (NASDAQ: BKR) ~$27.8B FY2024 revenue; IET LNG turbomachinery 38% revenue, Baker Hughes + GE Oil & Gas combined, energy transition positioning competing with SLB and Halliburton.
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Baker Hughes Company is a Houston, Texas-based energy technology and oilfield services company — publicly traded on the NASDAQ (NASDAQ: BKR) as an S&P 500 Energy component — providing oilfield services and equipment (OFSE — drilling, completions, production, and intervention technologies for upstream oil and gas operations) and industrial and energy technology (IET — turbomachinery, compressors, industrial equipment, and digital solutions for LNG terminals, industrial plants, and new energy applications) through approximately 58,000 employees in 120+ countries. Baker Hughes was formed in 2017 through the combination of Baker Hughes (founded 1987) with GE Oil & Gas — GE selling its oil and gas equipment and services business to Baker Hughes — creating a combined company that trades under NYSE: BKR while GE initially held a majority stake, which GE divested by 2022. In fiscal year 2024, Baker Hughes reported revenues of approximately $27.8 billion with adjusted EBITDA of approximately $4.4 billion, with the Industrial & Energy Technology segment (LNG compressors, gas compression, power generation turbines for industrial applications) generating 38% of revenue at above-average margins as LNG terminal construction and industrial decarbonization drove demand for Baker Hughes's turbomachinery and electrification equipment. CEO Lorenzo Simonelli has executed Baker Hughes's "energy transition" strategy — positioning Baker Hughes's equipment and services for both conventional oil and gas (OFSE — growing with global upstream capital expenditure) and the new energy economy (IET — LNG for energy transition, hydrogen compression, carbon capture equipment, geothermal drilling) to reduce Baker Hughes's correlation to oil price cycles.
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