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CenterPoint Energy

Utilities · Multi-Utilities · US

$42.69

Data: 2025-12-31

✗ ETHICAL FAIL

NARROW MOAT

HIGH

Data Confidence: 100.0%

Key Metrics

How this company measures up on the fundamentals that matter

Market Cap

$27.3B

Total market value of the company

Trailing P/E

25.60

Premium valuation

Forward P/E

20.00

Based on estimated future earnings — lower means cheaper

Rev Growth

+1.9%

Year-over-year revenue change

Profit Margin

0.0%

How much profit the company keeps from each dollar of revenue

ROE

9.6%

Return on equity — how efficiently it uses shareholder money

Analyst Target

$46.19

+8% from current price — median analyst estimate

Recommendation

BUY

Consensus view from 16 analysts covering this stock

About CenterPoint Energy

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.

https://www.centerpointenergy.com

Country: United States Employees: 8,794 Industry: Utilities - Regulated Electric

Ethical Screening

Five compliance checks based on AAOIFI standards — all must pass for ethical clearance

Business Activity

PASS

Core business does not involve prohibited activities

Debt Ratio

49.4% FAIL

Debt must be below 33% of total assets

Cash Ratio

1.1% PASS

Interest-bearing cash below 33% of assets

Receivables

1.8% PASS

Receivables below 49% of assets

Revenue Purity

0.0% PASS

Non-compliant revenue below 5% — any excess requires purification

Valuation

Fair Value Est.

$42.00

What our model estimates this business is worth per share

Margin of Safety

-1.6%

Trading above fair value — no margin of safety

Rating

AVOID

Overall assessment combining ethics, valuation, and quality

Percentile

30.9th

Ranks in the top 69% of our 13,571 screened universe

Ethical Score

10.0

Valuation Score

56.5

Quality Score

33.0

Combined

33.4

Trading near fair value at $42 (estimated $42). Fails ethical screen (Debt ratio). Ranks better than 4% of screened stocks.

Quantitative Intelligence

Statistical analysis of price behaviour, risk, and market regime — independent of fundamental data

Regime

MARKUP

Price trending up with increasing momentum

Sharpe Ratio

1.250

Excellent risk-adjusted returns

Kelly Fraction

0.0907

Suggested allocation is meaningful — the edge justifies a position

Calmar Ratio

1.310

Returns exceed worst-case losses — strong risk profile

Annual Return

23.8%

Historical annualised return based on price data

Max Drawdown

-18.1%

Largest peak-to-trough decline — the worst it has been

HMM State

SIDEWAYS

Price consolidating — no clear directional bias

Days in State

How long the current regime has persisted — longer means more stable

Market Data

Trading characteristics and market positioning

Beta

0.48

Very low correlation to market moves

52W High

$44.47

4% below the year high

52W Low

$35.46

20% above the year low

Avg Volume

5,197,870

Average daily shares traded — higher means easier to buy and sell

Short Ratio

8.6

Days it would take all short sellers to cover — higher means more crowded

Short % Float

7.7%

Moderate short interest

Div Yield

221.0%

Annual dividend as a percentage of the share price

EPS (TTM)

$1.63

Earnings per share over the last 12 months

Financial Health

Balance sheet strength and cash generation — the foundation of long-term value

Debt/Equity

2.16

Heavy leverage — higher financial risk if revenues decline

Current Ratio

1.17

Adequate but worth monitoring

Quick Ratio

0.47

Like current ratio but excludes inventory — stricter test

Gross Margin

45.9%

Revenue left after cost of goods — higher means pricing power

Operating Margin

22.0%

Profit from core operations before interest and tax

Free Cash Flow

$-4,945,375,232

Negative — the business is spending more than it generates

Revenue (TTM)

$9.4B

Total revenue over the last 12 months

Net Income

$1.1B

Profitable — the bottom line is positive

Analyst Coverage

Analysts

Target High

$50.00

Target Median

$46.19

Target Low

$41.00

Recent Insider Activity

SEC Form 4 filings — what company insiders are buying and selling

Date	Insider	Title	Shares	Value
2026-05-01	MALIK THADDEUS J	Director	4,037	—
2026-05-01	DUGANIER BARBARA J.	Director	4,037	—
2026-05-01	CLOONAN WENDOLYNN MONTOYA	Director	4,037	—
2026-05-01	RAQUELLE WOOTEN LEWIS	Director	4,037	—
2026-05-01	FITCH LAURIE LEE	Director	4,037	—
2026-05-01	MIRANDA MANUEL BENITO	Director	4,037	—
2026-05-01	HERMAN MICHAEL ALBERT	Director	4,037	—
2026-05-01	POUND THEODORE F III	Director	4,037	—
2026-05-01	FRANKLIN CHRISTOPHER H	Director	4,037	—
2026-05-01	SEAVERS DEAN	Director	4,037	—

Source: SEC Form 4 filings via public data. View all insider activity at

Insider Intelligence

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Data sourced from public filings and market feeds. Not financial advice. Updated: 2025-12-31

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