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Central Puerto S.a. CEPU

10 fiscal years on record · ARS · FY2024 reported · SEC filings only
ARS 738.2B
▲ 8.1% YoY
ARS 49.6B
▼ 84.6% YoY
ARS 115.7B
▼ 54.1% YoY

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In brief

What this company does

Central Puerto generates electric power with conventional and renewable technologies, and its generation assets include combined cycle, gas turbine, steam turbine, co-generation and hydroelectric plants, wind turbines and solar panels. In the year ended December 31, 2025 it generated 18,603 net GWh, approximately 13.02% of Argentina's generation offer, and closed the year with an installed capacity of 6,933 MW. Its facilities are distributed across the City of Buenos Aires and the provinces of Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Mendoza, Neuquén, Río Negro, Santa Fe, San Juan and Salta. Its power generation operations are concentrated in sixteen plants in Argentina, and the portfolio divides into generation from conventional sources and generation from renewable sources. The thermal fleet is made up of five plants and complexes: the Central Puerto Complex, the Costanera Complex, Brigadier Lopez, Luján de Cuyo and San Lorenzo. The Piedra del Águila hydroelectric complex has an installed capacity of 1,440 MW from four 360 MW generating units. It operates seven wind farms, La Castellana I, La Castellana II, Achiras, Manque, Los Olivos, La Genoveva I and La Genoveva II, and three solar farms, Guañizuil IIA, Cafayate and San Carlos. The company also produces steam, with an installed capacity of 465 tons per hour, of which 340 tons per hour at the San Lorenzo cogeneration plant and 125 tons per hour at Luján de Cuyo.

Written from the business description in CENTRAL PUERTO S.A.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 22 April 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

ARS 738.2B
Revenue, FY2024 · full 10-year series below
Revenue ARS B Net income ARS B
FY2024 · Revenue 738.2 · Net income 49.6
300B600B
2015201820212024
Compound annual growth
+28.7%
+58.5%
+22.3%
+185.6%
+48.2%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +58.5% a year over the five years to FY2024 — but profit grew slower: net income at +22.3%.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

8 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2024 · Operating 26.7% · Net 8.3%
100%200%
201520192024
ROE
FY2024 · ROE 2.7%
50%100%
201520192024
Three returns, three denominators.

Each ARS of equity produced 3 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

ARS 16.7B
returned in FY2024 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow ARS B
FY2024 · FCF 115.7
150B300B
201520192024
Net buybacks ARS B Dividends ARS B
FY2024 · Dividends 16.7 · Net buybacks ·
20B40B
2015201620172018201920202021202220232024

ARS 16.7B in dividends — 34% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsARS 2.66T
EquityARS 1.80T
CashARS 3.8B
Current ratio1.48×

Equity funds 68% of total assets.

The 10-year record

10 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · ARS

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
CEPU, 10-year financial record
Metric 2024202320222021202020192018201720162015
Revenue ARS B738.2682.8687.6346.2112.073.929.914.87.02.7
Operating income ARS B197.2736.5419.7156.082.257.663.96.43.31.6
EBITDA ARS B◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
Income tax ARS B81.539.145.650.2−15.0−11.813.81.71.00.6
Net income ARS B49.6322.4129.1−4.520.318.136.78.11.41.3
Free cash flow ARS B115.7252.1354.6125.321.5−11.4−6.8−3.2−1.20.6
EPS, diluted ARS 33.01214.5585.79◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
Dividend / sh ARS ◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
Payout %341519−1611383618625
ROE %2.724.524.4−2.419.628.0110.475.026.8◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures · 1 divergence in 41 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 9 of the 10 fiscal years we could check. 1 of those reconciliations are divergences — the figures exist but don't fit the formula this check expects; that isn't the same as an error. 18 checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2016. 15 checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2022. Eight checks were skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2015.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures1 divergent
ActivityElectric Services
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inoutside the United States — SEC code C1
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2015

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