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CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (CNP)

Utilities · Regulated Electric · Large-cap · updated October 16, 2026

NOT A BUY TODAY
What this means. CenterPoint Energy, Inc. is an average business by our measures, its shares look expensive compared with other stocks, and its share price trend is middling.
Value30
Quality47
Price trend60
Overall41
2261 of 2764rank among the US stocks we score (our core model buys the top 15)
18%of US stocks we score rank below it

Scores are 0 to 100 against every US stock we track; 50 is average. Recomputed after every US market close.

The business in numbers

Fiscal year to December 2025, from the company's annual filing with the SEC.

Salesyearly sales$9.3B
Sales growthchange from the year before+9.2%
Gross marginshare of sales left after the direct cost of what it sells100.0%
Operating marginshare of sales left after running the business22.6%
Net marginshare of sales kept as profit11.3%
Free-cash-flow marginspare cash generated per $100 of sales-25.5%
Return on invested capitalprofit made on each $100 put into the business5.3%
Return on equityprofit vs. shareholders' accounting value9.4%
Debt / equitydebt vs. shareholders' accounting value1.84
Change in share countnegative = the company is buying back its shares+1.8%

Insider trades, last 90 days

No open-market buys or sells by its directors or officers in the last 90 days.

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