ATMOS ENERGY CORP
At today's price, ATMOS ENERGY CORP (ATO) is priced for +2.7% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Atmos Energy is the largest pure-play natural-gas distribution utility in the country, earning a regulated return on a growing base of pipes and infrastructure, mostly in Texas, where it is spending heavily to replace aging steel and cast-iron mains. • The defining feature is the reinvestment engine: management plans roughly $26 billion of capital over five years, over 85% of it on safety and reliability, targeting 13% to 15% annual rate-base growth, funded with a mix of debt and steadily issu
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981 institutional managers reported holding ATO in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 126 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 3.4M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 2% of shares outstanding (1.9 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
ATO's share count grew 26.7% over the past five years. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (17 and counting), raised 8 years straight; the current rate is $3.48 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $1.48B in dividends.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at ATO over the trailing three years: 2024: 1 buy totaling $362k. 18 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
ATO's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-03 | -2.3% | -9.2% |
| 2023-11-15 | +1.3% | -0.7% |
| 2024-02-07 | +0.1% | +2.8% |
| 2024-05-09 | -0.5% | +0.1% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
ATO's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-18 (items 1.01, 9.01); 2026-06-18 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-05-06 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-03-30 (items 1.01, 2.03); 2026-02-10 (items 5.03, 5.07, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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