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Chesapeake Utilities Corporation

CPK Utilities Utilities Regulated Gas

Chesapeake Utilities Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $930.0 million, up 18.1% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 4.72%, EPS grew 2.91%, free cash flow grew 38.6% and total debt rose 11.0%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Dividend growth for twenty-five consecutive years.

127.75 0.41 −0.32%
Market cap
$3.1B
P/E
20.3×
Fwd P/E
19.2×
Dividend yield
2.22%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
1.31
Beneish M
−2.41
Dividend safety
52/100

Insider Decisions trades per month

Total sells 4.83
Totals in millions of $.
Dec 25 Mar 26 Jun 26 Sep 26
Buy — — — — — — — — — — — —
Sell 1 3 — — — — 2 — — — — —
Insider Ownership 1.27%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Market Cap 3,090.00
Revenue 993.50
Net Income 150.20
Free Cash Flow (180.10)
Net Debt 1,687.30
Current Ratio 0.32 (below 1: weak)
Debt/Equity 1.01
P/E ratio 20.28
Fwd P/E 19.20
P/S ratio 3.09
P/B ratio 1.84
Past 5Y EPS Growth 6.98%
This Y EPS Growth 6.84%
Next Y EPS Growth 14.69%
Next Y revenue growth 10.00% (at or above 10%: strong)
Next 5Y EPS Growth 9.48%

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Valuation vs history

P/E against its own 10 years 10.41%
10-year low 10-year high
P/S against its own 10 years 43.50%
10-year low 10-year high
P/B against its own 10 years 6.02%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 52.33%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends

Payout Ratio 0.45
Annual Dividend Rate 2.84
Annual Dividend Yield 2.22%
total individual payouts
2028 Powerpack
2027 Powerpack
2026 2.92
0.69
0.74
0.74
2025 2.70
0.64
0.69
0.69
0.69
2024 2.51
0.59
0.64
0.64
0.64
2023 2.31
0.54
0.59
0.59
0.59
2022 2.09
0.48
0.54
0.54
0.54
2021 1.88
0.44
0.48
0.48
0.48
2020 1.73
0.41
0.44
0.44
0.44
2019 1.59
0.37
0.41
0.41
0.41
2018 1.44
0.33
0.37
0.37
0.37
2017 1.28
0.31
0.33
0.33
0.33
2016 1.20
0.29
0.31
0.31
0.31
predictions special payouts not included in total or ratios

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Cash 5 8 2 0
Receivables 76 84 102 92
Inventory 29 27 27 24
Other 56 65 83 53
186 204 237 188
2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Payables 78 78 115 94
ST’ Debt 198 222 293 370
Other 61 62 60 67
386 419 530 595

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales 7.31% 13.76% 10.96%
Cash Flow 8.36% 8.02% 13.72%
Earnings 13.05% 14.43% 16.04%
Book Value 16.14% 18.06% 24.28%

Revenue $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 353 202 — — —
’25 299 193 180 259 930
’24 246 166 160 215 787
’23 218 136 132 185 671
’22 223 139 131 187 681
’21 191 111 107 160 570
’20 153 97 101 137 488
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 118 96 — — —
’25 85 54 59 35 234
’24 97 70 50 22 239
’23 82 67 34 20 204
’22 69 55 12 23 159
’21 80 54 19 (2) 151
’20 59 33 24 43 159
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 (24) (28) — — —
’25 (28) (45) (46) (82) (202)
’24 22 (11) (50) (72) (111)
’23 40 21 (12) (31) 18
’22 39 23 (21) (7) 35
’21 29 1 (25) (41) (35)
’20 28 (15) (16) 5 1
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

EPS $

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 2.47 1.05 — — —
’25 2.21 1.02 0.82 1.93 5.97
’24 2.07 0.82 0.78 1.60 5.26
’23 2.04 0.90 0.53 1.26 4.73
’22 2.08 0.96 0.54 1.47 5.04
’21 1.96 0.78 0.71 1.28 4.73
’20 1.76 0.66 0.56 1.28 4.26
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

1.9
1Buy 2 3Hold 4 5Sell

Ten years at a glance Fiscal years to December

Group Line 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Trend 2026e 2027e 2028e
Price, $
Price, $ Low 52.25 63.00 66.35 77.59 69.47 99.64 105.79 83.80 98.25 115.12

Analyst estimates 2026–2028

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High 70.00 86.35 93.40 98.55 111.40 146.07 146.30 132.91 134.20 140.59
People
People Employees 903 945 983 955 947 1,007 1,034 1,281 1,200 1,300
Revenue/emp, $m 0.55 0.48 0.50 0.50 0.52 0.57 0.66 0.52 0.66 0.72
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue 499 450 490 480 488 570 681 671 787 930
Gross margin, % 52.28 61.71 61.22 67.79 71.75 67.20 61.73 67.72 72.08 68.66
EBT 73 75 78 82 94 113 124 115 162 193
EBT margin, % 14.64 16.68 15.93 17.14 19.29 19.77 18.16 17.19 20.55 20.75
Net income 45 58 57 65 71 83 90 87 119 140
Depreciation 39 45 49 55 68 73 80 77 82 108
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue 32.04 27.52 29.95 29.25 29.21 32.46 38.41 36.50 35.03 39.76
Earnings 2.87 3.56 3.46 3.97 4.28 4.75 5.07 4.75 5.28 6.00
Cash flow 6.69 6.74 7.17 6.28 9.51 8.57 8.97 11.08 10.65 9.99
Capex (10.90) (10.69) (14.63) (11.24) (9.42) (10.59) (7.02) (10.11) (15.58) (18.63)
Free cash flow (4.21) (3.95) (7.47) (4.96) 0.09 (2.02) 1.95 0.97 (4.93) (8.64)
Book value 28.65 29.77 31.67 34.25 41.71 44.09 46.99 67.83 61.87 68.34
Shares, m 16 16 16 16 17 18 18 18 22 23
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E 22.96 21.74 23.50 24.08 25.34 30.63 23.14 22.27 23.03 20.76
P/S 2.06 2.81 2.71 3.28 3.70 4.49 3.05 2.90 3.46 3.14
P/B 2.30 2.60 2.57 2.80 2.59 3.31 2.49 1.56 1.96 1.83
EV/Sales 2.77 3.82 3.97 4.79 5.13 5.87 4.22 4.96 5.34 4.88
EV/FCF (21.07) (26.60) (15.93) (28.25) 1,685.29 (94.52) 83.22 186.74 (37.96) (22.45)
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow 104 110 117 103 159 151 159 204 239 234
Capex (170) (175) (240) (184) (157) (186) (124) (186) (350) (436)
Free cash flow (66) (65) (122) (81) 1 (35) 35 18 (111) (202)
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital (193) (234) (337) (288) (193) (206) (175) (201) (215) (293)
Total debt 359 458 622 733 698 789 802 1,386 1,484 1,620
Net debt 355 452 616 726 694 785 796 1,381 1,476 1,618
Shareholders’ equity 446 486 518 562 697 774 833 1,246 1,390 1,599
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA 3.89 4.40 3.64 3.75 3.85 4.12 4.15 3.16 3.45 3.71
ROIC 6.71 5.98 5.22 5.16 5.06 5.26 5.48 3.59 4.98 4.97
ROE 11.11 12.47 11.26 12.07 11.36 11.35 11.18 8.39 9.00 9.39
Negative figures in brackets.

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Fiscal years to Dec 2025 · latest quarter Jun 2026

Charts ten years each

Chesapeake Utilities Corporation vs peers in Utilities Regulated Gas (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
SWX Southwest Gas Corporation $6.1B 11.0× 20.8× −9.63% (below 0%: shrinking) n/m −157.57% (below 0%: shrinking) 89.27% 23.54% Compare
BKH Black Hills Corporation $5.8B 19.2× 16.7× +3.14% (above 0%: growing) +31.58% (above 0%: growing) +24.09% (above 0%: growing) 74.93% 21.42% Compare
NJR NewJersey Resources Corporation $5.2B 14.1× 15.9× +16.80% (above 0%: growing) n/m −3.14% (below 0%: shrinking) 57.69% 9.13% Compare
SR Spire Inc. $4.6B 8.7× 20.4× +19.21% (above 0%: growing) +1,131.03% (above 0%: growing) +0.22% (above 0%: growing) 75.92% 5.57% Compare
OGS ONE Gas, Inc. $4.6B 15.6× 16.5× −2.86% (below 0%: shrinking) +39.62% (above 0%: growing) +511.45% (above 0%: growing) 78.07% 20.08% Compare
MDU MDU Resources Group, Inc. $4.0B 19.7× 21.8× +6.87% (above 0%: growing) +42.86% (above 0%: growing) −58.85% (below 0%: shrinking) 64.77% 12.78% Compare
CPK Chesapeake Utilities Corporation $3.1B 20.3× 19.2× +4.72% (above 0%: growing) +2.91% (above 0%: growing) +38.63% (above 0%: growing) 74.39% 26.20%
CTRI Centuri Holdings, Inc. $2.1B 67.4× 67.3× +32.86% (above 0%: growing) −33.33% (below 0%: shrinking) +85.38% (above 0%: growing) 7.19% 2.51% Compare
NWN Northwest Natural Gas Company $2.0B 15.9× 16.5× +3.12% (above 0%: growing) n/m +36.83% (above 0%: growing) 74.64% 13.61% Compare
Median of peers $4.6B 15.7× 18.5× +5.01% +39.62% +12.16% 74.78% 13.20%

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Chesapeake Utilities Corporation (CPK) key facts

  • Strength: Chesapeake Utilities Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $930.0 million, up 18.1% from fiscal 2024.
  • Strength: Net income was $140.3 million, or $6.00 per share (basic), a net margin of 15.1%.
  • Chesapeake Utilities Corporation (CPK) is an Utilities Regulated Gas company in the Utilities sector, listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
  • As of October 9, 2026, CPK traded at $127.75, a market capitalization of $3.1 billion.
  • At that price the stock trades at 20.3× trailing-twelve-month earnings and 3.1× sales; its P/E is higher than 10% of its own readings over the past ten years.
  • Chesapeake Utilities Corporation pays an annual dividend of $2.84 per share, a yield of 2.22%, with a payout ratio of 45.3%.
  • Return on equity was 9.39% and debt-to-equity 1.01.
  • Its Piotroski F-score is 6 out of 9 and its Altman Z-score is 1.31 (distress zone) for fiscal 2025.

Source: company filings (standardised) and stockrow calculations.

Chesapeake Utilities Corporation (CPK) Latest News

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