CenterPoint Energy Inc (CNP)

CenterPoint Energy, Inc. operates as a public utility holding company in the United States. The company operates through Electric; Natural Gas; and Corporate and Other segments. The Electric segment provides electric transmission and distribution services to electric customers and electric generation assets, as well as optimizes assets in the wholesale power market in Indiana Electric's service territory. The Natural Gas segment engages in the intrastate natural gas sales, and natural gas transportation and distribution for residential, commercial, and industrial customers in Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, and Texas; permanent pipeline connections through interconnects with various interstate and intrastate pipeline companies; and provides home appliance maintenance and repair services to customers in Minnesota and home repair protection plans to natural gas customers in Indiana, Mississippi, Ohio, and Texas through a third party. As of December 31, 2025, it served approximately 2,859,313 metered customers; owned 355 substations with transformer capacity of 81,692 megavolt amperes; and owned and operated approximately 208 miles of intrastate pipeline in Louisiana and Texas. The company was founded in 1866 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Symbol: CNP
Exchange: NYSE
Sector: Utilities
Industry: Utilities - Regulated Electric
Market cap: $24.72B
52 week range: 36.37 - 45.26

Valuation

Share price: $37.79 (close of 2026-10-02)
P/E (TTM): 23.04x
Price to book: 2.16x
Price to free cash flow: -9.25x
Enterprise value: $48.76B
Book value per share: $17.50

Price performance

Period	Change
1 day	+1.56%
5 days	+2.58%
1 month	-4.35%
3 months	-15.29%
6 months	-13.54%
Year to date	-1.43%
1 year	-1.31%
3 years	+46.76%
5 years	+51.77%
10 years	+62.68%
All time	+238.32%

Members of Congress who disclosed CNP trades

Kevin Hern · Robert Bresnahan

Super investors holding CNP

Ken Griffin (Citadel) · John Rogers (Ariel Investments LLC)

Profitability and growth

Return on equity: 9.43%
Return on invested capital: 5.62%
Return on assets: 2.26%
Return on capital employed: 5.24%
Gross margin: 99.96%
Net margin: 11.27%
EBITDA margin: 38.98%
Revenue growth: 9.18%
Net income growth: 3.24%
Free cash flow growth: -0.42%

Cash flow and balance sheet

Free cash flow yield (TTM): -10.81%
Current ratio: 1.16x
Net debt to EBITDA: 6.31x

Latest reported year

Period end: 2025-12-31
Fiscal year: 2025
Revenue: $9.34B
Cost of revenue: $4.00M
Gross profit: $9.33B
EBITDA: $3.64B
Net income: $1.05B
Earnings per share: $1.61
Shares outstanding: 652.67M

Income statement by year

Period end	Revenue	Gross profit	Net income	EPS
2025-12-31	$9.34B	$9.33B	$1.05B	$1.61
2024-12-31	$8.55B	$8.55B	$1.02B	$1.58
2023-12-31	$8.61B	$8.51B	$917.00M	$1.37
2022-12-31	$9.33B	$9.12B	$1.06B	$1.60
2021-12-31	$8.26B	$8.05B	$1.49B	$2.35
2020-12-31	$7.35B	$7.09B	-$773.00M	$-1.79
2019-12-31	$7.51B	$7.25B	$791.00M	$1.34
2018-12-31	$6.28B	$6.24B	$368.00M	$0.74
2017-12-31	$5.66B	$5.63B	$1.79B	$4.16
2016-12-31	$5.71B	$3.73B	$432.00M	$1.00

Margins and returns by year

Period end	Gross margin	Net margin	Return on equity	Return on capital
2025-12-31	99.96%	11.27%	9.43%	5.62%
2024-12-31	99.96%	11.92%	9.55%	5.68%
2023-12-31	98.85%	10.65%	9.49%	5.64%
2022-12-31	97.81%	11.33%	10.53%	4.50%
2021-12-31	97.48%	18.00%	15.78%	4.95%
2020-12-31	96.50%	-10.52%	-9.26%	4.42%
2019-12-31	96.58%	10.53%	9.46%	4.47%
2018-12-31	99.36%	5.86%	4.57%	5.49%
2017-12-31	99.42%	31.64%	38.23%	7.56%
2016-12-31	65.28%	7.56%	12.49%	6.57%

Cash and debt by year

Period end	Cash	Debt
2025-12-31	$38.00M	$20.57B
2024-12-31	$24.00M	$20.40B
2023-12-31	$90.00M	$17.56B
2022-12-31	$74.00M	$14.84B
2021-12-31	$230.00M	$15.56B
2020-12-31	$147.00M	$11.52B
2019-12-31	$241.00M	$14.24B
2018-12-31	$4.23B	$8.68B
2017-12-31	$260.00M	$8.20B
2016-12-31	$341.00M	$7.53B

Free cash flow by year

Period end	Free cash flow
2025-12-31	-$2.38B
2024-12-31	-$2.37B
2023-12-31	-$524.00M
2022-12-31	-$2.61B
2021-12-31	-$3.14B
2020-12-31	-$601.00M
2019-12-31	-$868.00M
2018-12-31	$485.00M
2017-12-31	-$9.00M
2016-12-31	$509.00M

Dividend history

Most recent payment: 2026-08-20
Paid in the last twelve months: $0.92

Payment date	Dividend per share
2026-08-20	$0.24
2026-05-21	$0.23
2026-02-19	$0.23
2025-11-20	$0.22
2025-08-21	$0.22
2025-05-15	$0.22
2025-02-20	$0.22
2024-11-21	$0.21

Investor relations

Next earnings report

Next confirmed report: 2026-10-27
Consensus EPS estimate: $0.49

Past earnings dates

Reported	Fiscal period	EPS estimate
2026-07-28	Jun/2026	$0.37
2026-04-23	Mar/2026	$0.58
2026-02-19	Dec/2025	$0.46
2025-10-23	Sep/2025	$0.46
2025-07-28	-	-
2025-07-24	Jun/2025	$0.34
2025-04-28	-	-
2025-04-24	Mar/2025	$0.55

Filings and sources

Company website: centerpointenergy.com
SEC filings: 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K on EDGAR
Earnings calendar: All upcoming reports

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