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CMS Energy Corp. CMS

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
17 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
$8.3B
▲ 13.5% YoY
$1.1B
▲ 6.8% YoY
In brief

What this company does

CMS Energy Corporation is an energy company operating primarily in Michigan. At December 31, 2025, CMS Energy, including Consumers, had 8,350 full-time and part-time employees. It manages its businesses by the nature of the services each provides and operates principally in three business segments: electric utility, gas utility, and NorthStar Clean Energy, its non-utility operations and investments. Its NorthStar Clean Energy segment, through various subsidiaries and certain equity investments, is engaged in domestic independent power production, including the development and operation of renewable generation, and the marketing of independent power production, and had operating revenue of $408 million in 2025. CMS Energy Corporation was formed as a corporation in Michigan in 1987.

Written from the business description in CMS ENERGY CORP's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 10 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 8.3B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 8.3 · Net income 1.1
4B8B2008201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
−0.1%
+5.9%
+2.6%
+1.7%
+8.6%
+7.2%
+7.4%
+7.9%
+7.4%
+6.0%
+6.4%
+7.0%
+5.7%
+5.9%
+6.5%
+8.3%
+30.3%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +5.9% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +7.2%, earnings per share at +6.0%.

The share count rose from 0.29B to 0.31B over the period.

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
12 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 20.8% · Net 12.1%
10%20%2008201120142017202020232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 12.3%
10%20%2008201120142017202020232025

Each USD of equity produced 12 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $B
FY2022 · FCF -1.5
0.1B0.2B-0.8B2008201120142017202020232025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2012 · Dividends 252.0 · Net buybacks —
100M200M20082009201020112012

Total assetsUSD 39.9B
EquityUSD 9.1B
CashUSD 509.0M
Gross debtUSD 18.8B
Net debtUSD 18.2B
Current ratio0.98×

Net debt stands at 200% of equity.

The 18-year record
18 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008
Revenue $B8.37.37.38.37.16.26.46.56.66.46.57.26.66.36.56.46.26.8
Operating income $B1.71.51.21.21.11.21.11.21.31.31.21.21.11.01.01.00.70.8
EBITDA $B3.02.72.42.42.32.32.12.12.22.11.91.81.81.61.51.61.31.4
Income tax $B0.20.20.10.10.10.10.10.10.40.30.30.20.30.20.20.20.10.1
Net income $B1.11.00.90.81.40.80.70.70.50.60.50.50.50.40.40.30.20.3
Free cash flow $B···−1.5−0.3−1.0−0.3−0.40.0−0.00.1−0.10.10.00.30.10.0−0.2
EPS, diluted $3.533.333.012.854.662.642.392.321.641.981.891.741.661.421.581.280.911.20
Dividend / sh $2.172.061.951.841.741.631.531.431.331.241.161.081.020.960.840.660.500.36
Payout %·············6651485028
ROE %12.312.712.212.322.314.413.914.310.613.513.713.413.612.314.312.68.8·
Shares out B0.310.300.290.290.290.290.280.280.280.280.280.280.270.260.250.250.23·

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 69 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of 19 fiscal years. 7 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityElectric & Other Services Combined
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inMichigan
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2008

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