New Tech Breakthrough Threatens to Send Stock Market Tumbling
Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, NVIDIA, and Tesla could be in a world of pain because of this new shocking discovery. In this new exposé, Porter Stansberry shares everything you need to know.
Shares Stats
| Shares Outstanding | 651,720,000 |
| Shares Float | 649,080,000 |
| Shares Short | 18,850,000 |
| Insider Holdings | 33% |
| Institution Holdings | 94.15% |
About Centerpoint Energy Inc
CenterPoint Energy, Inc. operates as a public utility holding company in the United States. The company operates through two segments, Electric and Natural Gas. The Electric segment includes electric transmission and distribution services to electric customers and electric generation assets, as well as optimizes assets in the wholesale power market. The Natural Gas segment engages in the intrastate natural gas sales, and natural gas transportation and distribution for residential, commercial, industrial and institutional customers in Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Ohio, and Texas; permanent pipeline connections through interconnects with various interstate and intrastate pipeline companies; and provides maintenance and repair services of home appliances to customers in Minnesota and home repair protection plans to natural gas customers in Indiana, Mississippi, Ohio, and Texas through a third party. It serves approximately 2,534,730 metered customers; owned 348 substations with transformer capacity of 79,719 megavolt amperes; and owned and operated 217 miles of intrastate pipeline in Louisiana and Texas. The company was founded in 1866 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
General
| Name | Centerpoint Energy Inc |
| Ticker | CNP |
| Exchange | NYSE |
| Sector | Utilities |
| Industry | Utilities - Regulated Electric |
| Currency | USD |
| Country | USA |
| Fiscal Year End | December |
| Full Time Employees | 8,827 |
Highlights
| Analyst Target | 32.63 |
| Market Cap | 20,568,500,000 |
| PE Ratio | 20.91 |
| PEG Ratio | 1.85 |
| EBITDA | 3,081,999,872 |
Financials
| Curr Year EPS Estimate | 1.62 |
| Next Quarter EPS Estimate | 0.39 |
| Profit Margin | 11.25% |
| Operating Margin | 21.35 |
| Return on Assets | 0.03 |
| Return on Equity | 0.10 |
| Revenue | 8.6B |
| Earnings Per Share | 1.50 |
| Revenue Per Share | 13.42 |
| Gross Profit | 3,570,000,000 |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth | -0.00 |
Valuation
| Trailing PE | 21.15 |
| Forward PE | 18.15 |
| Price/Sales (Trailing 12 Mt.) | 2.42 |
| Price/Book (Most Recent Quarter) | 1.96 |
Dividend
Centerpoint Energy Inc pays out a dividend of $0.80 per share, with a dividend yield of 2.54%.
CNP's next dividend payment will be made to shareholders on March 13, 2025.
They pay out 56.23% of their earnings out as a dividend.
Recent Dividends
| Dec 12, 2024 | $0.21 |
| Sep 12, 2024 | $0.20 |
| Jun 13, 2024 | $0.20 |
| Mar 14, 2024 | $0.20 |
| Dec 14, 2023 | $0.20 |
| Sep 14, 2023 | $0.19 |
| Jun 8, 2023 | $0.19 |
| Mar 9, 2023 | $0.19 |
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