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Energy Co. of Parana ELPC

10 fiscal years on record · BRL · FY2024 reported · SEC filings only
BRL 22.7B
▲ 5.5% YoY
BRL 2.8B
▲ 20.3% YoY
BRL -704.8M
▼ 120.1% YoY

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

In brief

What this company does

The company engages in the generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity mainly in the Brazilian market, especially in the State of Parana, pursuant to concessions granted by ANEEL, the Brazilian regulatory agency for the electricity sector. As of December 31, 2025, it generated electricity from 7 hydroelectric plants and 42 wind plants, for a total installed capacity of 5,961.2 MW in operation, all of which was derived from renewable sources. It holds concessions to distribute electricity in 394 of the 399 municipalities in the State of Parana and in the municipality of Porto Uniao in the State of Santa Catarina. As of December 31, 2025, it owned and operated 4,594 km of transmission lines and 218,470 km of distribution lines. It has four main wholly-owned subsidiaries in the generation, transmission, distribution and commercialization sectors: Copel GeT, Copel Distribuicao, Copel Comercializacao and Copel Servicos S.A. The company was formed in 1954 by the State of Parana to engage in the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity, as part of a plan to bring the electric energy sector under state control.

Written from the business description in ENERGY CO OF PARANA's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 16 April 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

BRL 22.7B
Revenue, FY2024 · full 10-year series below
Revenue BRL B Net income BRL B
FY2024 · Revenue 22.7 · Net income 2.8
10B20B
2015201820212024
Compound annual growth
+2.6%
+6.9%
−17.8%
+6.3%
+23.0%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +6.9% a year over the five years to FY2024 — but profit grew slower: net income at +6.3%.

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

12 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2024 · Operating -3.7% · Net 12.4%
10%20%-5%
201520192024
ROE
FY2024 · ROE 11.3%
10%20%
201520192024
Three returns, three denominators.
Gross margin21.6%
Operating margin-3.7%
Net margin12.4%
EBITDA·

Each BRL of equity produced 11 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

BRL 5.7B
returned in FY2024 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow BRL B
FY2024 · FCF -0.7
1.50B3.00B-0.25B-0.50B
201520192024
Net buybacks BRL B Dividends BRL B
FY2024 · Dividends · · Net buybacks 5.7
2B4B
201520162017201820192020202120222024
Dividends paid·
Net buybacksBRL 5.7B
Share of profit203.6%
Consecutive raises·

BRL 5.7B in buybacks — 204% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Total assetsBRL 57.4B
EquityBRL 25.7B
CashBRL 4.2B
Current ratio1.26×

Equity funds 45% of total assets.

The 10-year record

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

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
ELPC, 10-year financial record
Metric 2024202320222021202020192018201720162015
Revenue BRL B22.721.520.521.018.616.214.914.013.114.9
Operating income BRL B−0.8−1.2−2.00.7−1.0−1.1−1.0−1.2−0.9−1.0
EBITDA BRL B◌◌◌−0.4−0.0−0.2−0.3−0.5◌◌
Income tax BRL B0.60.4−0.31.21.3−0.70.50.30.50.5
Net income BRL B2.82.31.15.03.92.11.41.10.91.2
Free cash flow BRL B−0.73.53.93.43.72.60.3−0.20.20.6
EPS, diluted BRL ◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
Dividend / sh BRL ◌1.641.875.740.880.220.131.010.991.14
Payout %——3122331621454226
ROE %11.310.45.424.221.012.49.27.56.18.2
Shares out B◌2.982.742.742.740.270.270.27◌◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 30 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 10 of the 10 fiscal years we could check. 16 checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2015. Eight checks were skipped: the share count is not tagged before 2015.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityElectric Services
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated innot stated in the filings
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2015

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