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CenterPoint Energy is an utilities - regulated electric business based in the US. CenterPoint Energy shares (CNP) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars.
Its last market close was $35.48 – an increase of 3.56% over the previous week. CenterPoint Energy employs 8,872 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $8.6 billion.Note: The dollar amounts in the table below are in Canadian dollars.
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Latest market close | $35.48 |
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52-week range | $25.06 - $35.01 |
50-day moving average | $32.86 |
200-day moving average | $30.36 |
Wall St. target price | $33.81 |
PE ratio | 21.9051 |
Dividend yield | $0.81 (2.55%) |
Earnings per share (TTM) | $1.58 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $34.61 from 2025-03-13
1 week (2025-03-07) | 1.02% |
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1 month (2025-02-14) | 3.59% |
3 months (2024-12-13) | 8.36% |
6 months (2024-09-13) | 23.92% |
1 year (2024-03-15) | 24.18% |
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2 years (2023-03-15) | 25.78% |
3 years (2022-03-15) | 29.72% |
5 years (2020-03-13) | 154.52% |
Valuing CenterPoint Energy stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of CenterPoint Energy's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
CenterPoint Energy's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 22x. In other words, CenterPoint Energy shares trade at around 22x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the stock or simply that they're under-valued.
CenterPoint Energy's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 2.32. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the stocks offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the stocks offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into CenterPoint Energy's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the stock prices of multiple high-growth companies.
CenterPoint Energy's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $3.3 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a CenterPoint Energy's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Revenue TTM | $8.6 billion |
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Operating margin TTM | 21.66% |
Gross profit TTM | $4 billion |
Return on assets TTM | 2.96% |
Return on equity TTM | 10.02% |
Profit margin | 11.79% |
Book value | $16.37 |
Market Capitalization | $22.6 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 51.23% of net profits
Recently CenterPoint Energy has paid out, on average, around 100% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), CenterPoint Energy shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In CenterPoint Energy's case, that would currently equate to about $0.81 per share.
CenterPoint Energy's payout ratio would broadly be considered high, and as such this stock could appeal to those looking to generate an income. Bear in mind however that companies should normally also look to re-invest a decent amount of net profits to ensure future growth.
CenterPoint Energy's most recent dividend payout was on 12 March 2025. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their stocks by 19 February 2025 (the "ex-dividend date").
CenterPoint Energy's stocks were split on a 1000:843 basis on 30 September 2002 . So if you had owned 843 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1000 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your CenterPoint Energy stocks – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 15.7% lower stock price could have impacted the market appetite for CenterPoint Energy stocks, which in turn could have impacted CenterPoint Energy's stock price.
Over the last 12 months, CenterPoint Energy's stocks have ranged in value from as little as $25.0597 up to $35.01. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta."
Beta is a measure of a stocks volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while CenterPoint Energy's is 0.904. This would suggest that CenterPoint Energy's stocks are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
CenterPoint Energy, Inc. operates as a public utility holding company in the United States. The company operates in Electric and Natural Gas 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, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, 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, 2024, it served approximately 2,818,343 metered customers; owned 352 substations with transformer capacity of 80,659 megavolt amperes; and owned and operated approximately 219 miles of intrastate pipeline in Louisiana and Texas. The company was founded in 1866 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
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