The Bid & Ask

Quotations, Dispatches, and the Daily Tape

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Subject of the day

CNP

Concerning the House

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.

United States · www.centerpointenergy.com

The Long Run

FY 2009–2025 · 16 years

LineLatestCAGRTrend
Revenue$9.34B-0.2%
Operating income$2.11B+4.3%
Net income$917.00M+7.8%
Cash from ops$3.88B+14.8%
Quotation

$40.48

-0.05 (-0.1%)

52w hi$45.04
52w lo$36.71
Vol3.12M
As ofAug 13
The Verdict

Hold

Our score -0.27

Short-0.08
Medium-0.43
Long-0.31

computed 2026-08-13

By the Numbers

CenterPoint Energy, Inc.

Utilities · Utilities - Regulated Electric

Market cap$26.66B
Enterprise value$50.89B
Trailing P/E24.10x
Forward P/E19.38x
EV / EBITDA13.20x
P / S (ttm)2.77x
Profit margin11.6%
Return on equity9.8%
Revenue growth+10.7%
Earnings growth+23.3%
Debt / equity210.26
Risk Metrics
Beta vs SPX0.08
Corr SPX0.07
Annual vol17.5%
Annual ret+23.1%
Sharpe1.32
Max DD-11.1%

Window: 504 trading days (504 obs)

Layer Breakdown
LayerRawContribution
Fundamental+0.22
Sector-0.01
Technical-0.04
Earnings+0.00
Sentiment+0.00

macro × 1.00 · 2026-08-13

Recent Sessions
DateOpenHighLowCloseVol
Aug 13$40.32$40.89$40.30$40.483.12M
Aug 12$40.26$40.57$40.18$40.534.44M
Aug 11$40.07$40.29$39.80$40.186.41M
Aug 10$41.68$41.68$39.95$40.036.46M
Aug 7$40.85$41.26$40.33$40.687.33M