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CenterPoint Energy, Inc.

CNP Utilities Utilities Regulated Electric

CenterPoint Energy, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $9.4 billion, up 8.26% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+10.2%
EPS
+11.3%
Free cash flow
−27.3%
Total debt
+11.7%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

39.85 1.19 −2.90%
Market cap
$26.5B
P/E
22.8×
Fwd P/E
23.3×
Dividend yield
2.31%
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
0.82
Beneish M
−2.65
Dividend safety
32/100
Overview Business Profile Earnings & Analysis
Financials
Income Statement Balance Sheet Cash Flow Metrics & Ratios
Segments Valuation Filings

Revenue by products and services Fiscal 2025

  • Retail gas sales
  • Electric delivery
  • Retail electric sales
  • Energy products and services
  • Wholesale electric sales
  • Gas transportation

Every year since 2009 →

Insider Decisions last twelve months

Bought, $m 0.04
Trades a month
Jan 26 Apr 26 Jul 26 Oct 26
Buy — — — — — — — — 1 — — —
Sell — — — — — — — — — — — —
Insider Ownership 0.00%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Size
Market Cap 26,500.00
Revenue ttm 9,823.00
Net income ttm 1,155.00
Free cash flow ttm (3,183.00)
Net debt Q 24,346.00
Valuation
P/E 22.76
Forward P/E 23.30
Price / sales 2.68
Forward P/S Powerpack
Price / FCF 0.00
Price / book 2.24
Financial health
Current ratio Q 1.15
Debt / equity Q 2.12 (above 2: weak)
Interest coverage Q 2.37
Growth
Revenue growth Q +10.21% (above 0%: growing)
Operating income growth Q +32.87% (above 0%: growing)
EPS, this year +8.61%
EPS, next year A +9.29%
Revenue, next year A +6.62%
EPS, past 5 yrs —
EPS, next 5 yrs A +9.10%

Green and red mark values outside typical ranges; (Q) is the latest quarter, (A) analysts’ estimates. How we judge →

Valuation vs history

EV/Sales, ten years
EV/Sales is 5.2×, against a ten-year median of 3.7×; over the ten years it ranged from 1.8× in 2018 to 6.8× in 2019.
P/E against its own 10 years 61.81%
10-year low 10-year high
P/S against its own 10 years 81.22%
10-year low 10-year high
P/B against its own 10 years 60.21%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 85.44%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends raised 5 years running

Yield
2.31%
Annual rate
0.92
Payout ratio
52.6%
Growth, 2018–26
−2.06%/yr
  1. 1.11 ’18
  2. 1.15 ’19 +4
  3. 0.74 ’20 −36
  4. 0.65 ’21 −12
  5. 0.70 ’22 +8
  6. 0.77 ’23 +10
  7. 0.81 ’24 +5
  8. 0.88 ’25 +9
  9. 0.94 ’26 +7
paid change on the year, % Powerpack

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Cash 631 585 548 557
Receivables 804 838 842 850
Inventory 770 714 732 878
Other 677 2,121 3,439 3,276
3,027 4,381 5,701 5,665
2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Payables 917 1,320 1,300 1,208
ST’ Debt 1,059 566 2,414 1,226
Other 1,235 1,413 1,739 1,695
3,864 4,045 6,260 4,929

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales 2.39% 4.75% 0.13%
Cash Flow 2.89% 4.50% 11.16%
Earnings 0.00% 0.00% 1.43%
Book Value 12.41% 5.96% 3.56%

Earnings Trends EPS, adjusted, against the consensus

Q3 FY26 Estimate 0.50 Actual 0.53

Earnings per share against the consensus, by quarter
Quarter Estimate Reported Result
Q4 FY25 0.46 0.45 Miss by 0.01
Q1 FY26 0.58 0.56 Miss by 0.02
Q2 FY26 0.37 0.40 Beat by 0.03
Q3 FY26 0.50 0.53 Beat by 0.03
Q4 FY26 0.45 — Reports 18 February 2027

EPS $

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 0.48 0.37 0.50 — —
’25 0.45 0.30 0.45 0.40 1.60
’24 0.55 0.36 0.30 0.38 1.58
’23 0.49 0.17 0.40 0.30 1.37
’22 0.82 0.28 0.30 0.19 1.59
’21 0.56 0.37 0.32 1.01 2.28
’20 (2.44) 0.11 0.13 0.27 (1.79)
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Revenue $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 2,975 2,152 2,191 — —
’25 2,920 1,944 1,988 2,505 9,357
’24 2,620 1,905 1,856 2,262 8,643
’23 2,779 1,875 1,860 2,182 8,696
’22 2,763 1,944 1,903 2,711 9,321
’21 2,547 1,742 1,749 2,314 8,352
’20 2,167 1,575 1,622 2,054 7,418
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 282 778 991 — —
’25 410 560 742 774 2,486
’24 538 576 136 889 2,139
’23 1,713 769 587 808 3,877
’22 580 398 347 485 1,810
’21 (1,681) 605 559 539 22
’20 662 519 258 556 1,995
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 (916) (592) (611) — —
’25 (628) (569) (480) (1,064) (2,741)
’24 (307) (236) (708) (1,123) (2,374)
’23 590 (367) (477) (270) (524)
’22 (266) (636) (852) (855) (2,609)
’21 (2,275) (184) (206) (477) (3,142)
’20 (2) (95) (353) (151) (601)
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Valuation

The price implies free cash flow after share-based pay growing 25.0% a year for ten years.

Implied
25.0%
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Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

2.1
1Buy 2 3Hold 4 5Sell

Ten years at a glance Fiscal years to December

Ten-year view Analyst estimates Powerpack
Group Line 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 TTM Sep ’26 Trend 10 yrs 2026e 2027e 2028e Next 3/yr
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue 7,528 9,614 6,277 7,564 7,418 8,352 9,321 8,696 8,643 9,357 9,823 +2.4% 9,976 10,460 11,157 +6.0%
Gross margin, % 60.60 49.10 76.04 73.31 76.48 72.04 66.84 75.16 80.12 77.38 79.35 +16.8 pt
EBT 686 1,063 551 545 563 778 1,417 1,087 1,214 1,247 1,449 +6.9%
EBT margin, % 9.11 11.06 8.78 7.21 7.59 9.32 15.20 12.50 14.05 13.33 14.75 +4.2 pt
Net income 432 1,792 368 791 (773) 1,486 1,057 917 1,019 1,052 1,155 +10.4%
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue 17.47 22.31 13.98 15.07 13.97 14.08 14.82 13.78 13.44 14.33 14.86 (2.2%)
Earnings 1.00 4.16 0.74 1.34 (1.79) 2.35 1.60 1.37 1.58 1.61 1.75 +5.4%
Cash flow 4.46 3.29 4.76 3.26 3.76 0.04 2.88 6.14 3.33 3.81 4.27 (1.7%)
Capex (3.28) (3.31) (3.68) (4.99) (4.89) (5.34) (7.03) (6.97) (7.02) (8.00) (9.09) +10.4%
Free cash flow 1.18 (0.02) 1.08 (1.73) (1.13) (5.30) (4.15) (0.83) (3.69) (4.20) (4.82) n/m
Book value 8.03 10.88 17.95 16.65 15.72 15.88 15.97 15.32 16.59 17.08 17.76 +8.8%
Shares, m 431 431 449 502 531 593 629 631 643 653 656 +4.7%
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E 24.46 6.74 38.15 20.35 0.00 12.30 18.59 21.02 19.96 23.96 22.76 18.6
P/S 1.41 1.26 2.02 1.81 1.55 1.98 1.99 2.11 2.36 2.68 2.68 1.9
P/B 3.06 2.58 2.01 2.07 1.92 1.92 2.01 1.89 1.91 2.24 2.24 2.2
EV/Sales 2.38 2.05 2.72 3.67 3.22 1.89 3.74 4.17 4.72 5.07 5.16 3.4
EV/FCF 35.16 (2,188.51) 35.19 (31.96) (39.79) (5.01) (13.36) (69.26) (17.18) (17.32) (15.92) (231.2)
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow 1,923 1,417 2,136 1,638 1,995 22 1,810 3,877 2,139 2,486 2,825 +2.9%
Capex (1,414) (1,426) (1,651) (2,506) (2,596) (3,164) (4,419) (4,401) (4,513) (5,227) (6,008) +15.6%
Free cash flow 509 (9) 485 (868) (601) (3,142) (2,609) (524) (2,374) (2,741) (3,183) n/m
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital (157) 326 3,723 (41) (1,905) 3,068 (414) (837) 336 (559) 736 +15.2%
Net debt 7,298 7,620 4,393 14,049 12,422 (807) 16,272 17,987 20,378 22,432 24,346 +13.3%
Shareholders’ equity 3,460 4,688 8,058 8,359 8,348 9,415 10,042 9,667 10,666 11,153 11,742 +13.9%
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA 2.00 8.04 1.34 2.16 (2.75) 3.91 2.64 2.22 2.44 2.33 2.44 +0.3 pt
ROIC 5.94 5.77 4.36 2.99 3.13 9.90 3.72 3.98 4.01 3.93 4.16 (2.0) pt
ROE 12.48 43.99 6.05 10.42 (15.06) 19.04 11.28 9.17 10.02 9.64 10.14 (2.8) pt
People
People Employees 7,727 7,977 7,977 14,262 9,541 9,418 8,986 8,827 8,872 8,794 — +1.4%
Revenue/emp, $m 0.97 1.21 0.79 0.53 0.78 0.89 1.04 0.99 0.97 1.06 — +1.0%
Negative figures in brackets.
estimates

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Fiscal years to Dec 2025 · latest quarter Sep 2026 · fundamentals updated 2 Nov 2026

Business profile

Updated

CenterPoint Energy is a public utility holding company that owns and operates businesses delivering electricity and natural gas. Founded in 1882, it is headquartered in Houston. Jason P. Wells is its chair, president and chief executive officer.

Its Houston Electric business moves electricity across transmission lines and distributes it to homes and businesses in the Texas Gulf Coast area. Retail electric providers sell the electricity to those end users; Houston Electric provides the delivery network, metering and outage response rather than making direct retail electricity sales. It also provides transmission service elsewhere in the ERCOT region.

Where the money comes from and where it goes Fiscal 2025

Fiscal 2025: revenue by products and services, and margins
Retail gas sales 4,266 45.59%
Electric delivery 4,109 43.91%
Retail electric sales 736 7.87%
Energy products and services 216 2.31%
Wholesale electric sales 19 0.20%
Gas transportation 11 0.12%
Gross margin 77.38%
Operating margin 22.55%
Pre-tax margin 13.33%

Revenue by segment since 2009

CenterPoint Energy, Inc. vs peers in Utilities Regulated Electric (Q) = latest quarter vs a year earlier

Company Market cap P/E Fwd P/E Revenue growth (Q) EPS growth (Q) FCF growth (Q) Gross margin (Q) EBIT margin (Q) Compare
FTS Fortis $31.3B 23.2× 22.6× +4.39% (above 0%: growing) +28.66% (above 0%: growing) −10.20% (below 0%: shrinking) 47.83% 30.08% Compare
AEE Ameren Corporation $31.2B 19.7× 20.5× −5.81% (below 0%: shrinking) +11.76% (above 0%: growing) −51.22% (below 0%: shrinking) 73.90% 21.94% Compare
PCG Pacific Gas & Electric Co. $29.1B 9.8× 11.2× −0.99% (below 0%: shrinking) −8.11% (below 0%: shrinking) −892.50% (below 0%: shrinking) 83.63% 20.18% Compare
DTE DTE Energy Company $28.1B 20.5× 18.8× +5.67% (above 0%: growing) +11.88% (above 0%: growing) +230.17% (above 0%: growing) 0.00% 16.18% Compare
FE FirstEnergy Corporation $27.3B 22.6× 17.1× +9.86% (above 0%: growing) +26.32% (above 0%: growing) −44.47% (below 0%: shrinking) 63.57% 20.52% Compare
PPL PPL Corporation $27.1B 21.2× 18.7× +4.25% (above 0%: growing) +24.00% (above 0%: growing) −112.80% (below 0%: shrinking) 71.67% 22.50% Compare
ES Eversource Energy $27.1B 18.6× 15.6× +2.29% (above 0%: growing) −85.42% (below 0%: shrinking) +398.93% (above 0%: growing) 67.64% 18.63% Compare
CNP CenterPoint Energy, Inc. $26.5B 22.8× 23.3× +10.21% (above 0%: growing) +11.29% (above 0%: growing) −27.29% (below 0%: shrinking) 91.42% 30.44%
EIX Edison International $23.4B 6.5× 9.9× −15.03% (below 0%: shrinking) −12.96% (below 0%: shrinking) +41.59% (above 0%: growing) 65.47% 20.06% Compare
Median of peers $27.7B 20.1× 17.9× +3.27% +11.82% −27.33% 66.56% 20.35%

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From the latest earnings call

Updated

  • CEO Jason Wells said Houston customer demand drove an increase in CenterPoint’s capital plan and that the company expects to energize at least 14 gigawatts by 2030.
  • CFO Chris Foster said CenterPoint raised its remaining equity financing plan and is considering options, including a sublease or sale of temporary generation units.

Analyst rating changes each firm’s latest, last six months

Firm Date Action Rating Target
RBC Oct 10, 2026 Initiated Hold —

Largest institutional holders 13F, quarter to 30 June 2026

Held by institutions 106.27%
Held by the ten largest 68.49%
Holder Shares Stake Change
Capital Group 123.12m 18.82% +8.42m
Vanguard 83.92m 12.83% +596.39k
T. Rowe Price 73.22m 11.19% +7.24m
BlackRock 58.37m 8.92% +1.07m
State Street 37.13m 5.68% +921.97k
Deutsche Bank (DWS) 17.50m 2.68% +5.22m
Geode Capital Management 17.37m 2.65% +256.24k
Fidelity (FMR) 13.70m 2.09% +257.47k
Boston Partners 12.28m 1.88% +210.63k
Franklin Templeton 11.44m 1.75% +121.80k
13F filings for the quarter to 30 June 2026: long positions in US-listed shares reported by managers with $100m or more, ~45 days after the quarter.

Pay and ownership Proxy statement filed 4 March 2026

Ownership

Directors and executive officers, together less than 1%
The Vanguard Group, Inc. 11.69%
Capital Research Global Investors 10.13%
T. Rowe Price Investment Management, Inc. 8.91%
BlackRock, Inc. 7.58%
Capital International Investors 5.18%
State Street Corporation One Congress Street, Suite 5.06%
Ownership is the proxy’s own table: the directors and officers as a group, and every holder of 5% or more. Read the proxy statement

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