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Centerpoint Energy Inc. CNP

19 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
3 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
$9.3B
▲ 9.2% YoY
$1.1B
▲ 3.2% YoY
$-2.4B
In brief

What this company does

CenterPoint Energy's operating subsidiaries own and operate electric transmission, distribution and generation facilities and natural gas distribution systems. As of December 31, 2025, CenterPoint Energy's reportable segments were Electric, Natural Gas and Corporate and Other. Houston Electric, one of CenterPoint Energy's operating subsidiaries, provides electric transmission service to transmission service customers in the ERCOT region and distribution service to REPs serving the Texas Gulf Coast area that includes the city of Houston. As of December 31, 2025, CenterPoint Energy reported a total of 8,794 employees across its Electric, Natural Gas, and Corporate and Other reportable segments. As of December 31, 2025, Houston Electric's service area in the Texas Gulf Coast included 67 REPs and 2,859,313 total metered customers.

Written from the business description in CENTERPOINT ENERGY INC's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 19 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 9.3B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 19-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 9.3 · Net income 1.1
4B8B2007201020132016201920222025
Compound annual growth
+0.0%
+4.9%
+2.4%
+0.4%
−0.2%
+6.0%
+0.2%
+2.7%
+7.3%
−1.1%
+0.9%
+9.3%
+7.9%
+3.0%
+4.0%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +4.9% a year over five years.

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
11 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 22.6% · Net 11.3%
10%20%-5%-10%2007201020132016201920222025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 9.6%
20%40%-5%-10%-15%2007201020132016201920222025

Each USD of equity produced 10 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 574.0M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $B
FY2025 · FCF -2.4
0.8B1.6B-2.0B2007201020132016201920222025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 574.0 · Net buybacks —
200M400M2007201020132016201920222025

USD 574.0M in dividends — 55% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 46.5B
EquityUSD 11.2B
CashUSD 38.0M
Gross debtUSD 23.0B
Net debtUSD 22.9B
Current ratio0.91×

Net debt stands at 206% of equity.

The 19-year record
19 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 2025202420232022202120202019201820172016201520142013201220112010200920082007
Revenue $B9.38.68.69.38.37.37.56.36.15.77.49.28.17.58.48.88.311.39.6
Operating income $B2.12.01.81.61.41.01.10.91.11.00.90.91.01.01.31.21.11.31.2
EBITDA $B3.63.43.22.92.72.22.32.12.22.11.91.92.02.12.22.1···
Income tax $B0.20.20.20.40.10.10.00.2−0.70.3−0.40.30.50.30.40.30.20.30.2
Net income $B1.11.00.91.11.5−0.80.80.41.80.4−0.70.60.30.41.40.40.40.40.4
Free cash flow $B−2.4−2.4−0.5−2.6−3.1−0.6−0.90.5−0.00.50.30.00.30.60.6−0.10.71.9−0.3
EPS, diluted $1.601.581.371.592.28−1.791.330.744.131.00−1.611.420.720.973.171.071.011.301.15
Dividend / sh $0.890.830.780.72······0.990.950.830.810.790.780.760.73·
Payout %5551534226−517313626103−6267114832572745555
ROE %9.610.09.310.916.7−9.39.65.844.012.5−17.313.87.29.836.615.116.023.321.8
Shares out B0.650.650.630.630.630.550.500.500.430.430.43········

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 73 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 19 of 19 fiscal years. 12 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityElectric Services
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inTexas
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2007

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