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Before you decide whether PG&E belongs in your portfolio, it helps to ask a simple question: are you paying a fair price for the risks and potential returns that come with this stock right now?

PG&E shares recently closed at US$18.02, with returns of 7.6% over the last week, 15.4% over the last month, 10.8% year to date, 17.8% over 1 year, 18.0% over 3 years and 62.3% over 5 years. This gives you a sense of how the market has been reassessing the company over different time frames.

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