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Enel delivered Q1 2026 ordinary adjusted EBITDA of €6.0bn (+4% year-on-year on an adjusted basis), with EPS of €0.20 per share (+6% year-on-year), already representing 27% of the full-year guidance target. Grids EBITDA surged 18% to €2.5bn, now comprising 42% of group earnings, underscoring a structural shift toward regulated, higher-visibility income streams.
Performance Highlights
Enel reported Q1 2026 ordinary adjusted EBITDA of €6.0bn, up 4% year-on-year versus an adjusted Q1 2025 base of €5.8bn, while group revenues declined to €20.6bn from €22.1bn as the deliberate strategic retreat from commodity-centric trading reduced top-line exposure. EPS of €0.20 per share rose 6% year-on-year, with 27% of the full-year EPS target already achieved on purely organic business evolution, ahead of the prior-year pace.
The single most important operating driver was the 18% surge in Grids EBITDA to €2.5bn, supported by a higher RAB in Italy (+10% to €23.4bn), improved regulatory remuneration in Spain, and CPI-linked tariff indexation across Latin America. Renewable Energies EBITDA rose 18% to €2.5bn, while the Trading segment's share of group EBITDA compressed sharply from 9% to 3%, reflecting the intentional pivot away from volatile commodity earnings toward an integrated, customer-matched supply model.
Management Outlook and Forward Catalysts
Management reiterated full-year 2026 guidance of €23.1–23.6bn EBITDA and €7.1–7.3bn net income, implying 6% EPS growth to €0.72–0.74 per share, with the 2026–2028 strategic plan targeting a further step to €0.80–0.82 per share by 2028 and a 6% DPS CAGR over the period. The €26bn three-year investment programme is weighted toward regulated grids (RAB expansion from €47bn to €58bn by 2028) and renewables capacity additions targeting 15GW, supported by a growing brownfield pipeline including the recently signed 830MW US wind and solar acquisition.
The central investor debate for the next quarter centres on whether Enel can sustain Grids EBITDA momentum as Spain's capex ramp-up accelerates, while managing execution risk on the €1.5bn remaining share buyback, Italian Energy Decree headwinds of up to €0.4bn on net income in 2027, and FX drag from Latin American currencies. Bulls will watch RAB-driven regulated earnings compounding and the US brownfield pipeline conversion; bears will focus on hydro resource shortfalls in Latin America, retail customer attrition in Italy (down 5.9% year-on-year), and the pace at which the 9.2% decline in European liberalised energy volumes stabilises.
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