CENTERPOINT ENERGY INC
CENTERPOINT ENERGY INC (CNP) has a dated report snapshot, but its current priced-in claim is temporarily suppressed because the live engine record is unavailable or has changed.
CenterPoint is a regulated electric and natural gas utility, so its value lives in rate base, not in a cash-flow multiple. Earnings grow as the company invests approved capital and earns an allowed return on it; the company is guiding to roughly 8% non-GAAP EPS growth in 2026 and a 7% to 9% long-term annual target through 2035. The engine is a $65.5 billion ten-year capital plan against an approximately $33 billion rate base, supercharged by Houston load growth: 12.2 gigawatts of firmly committ
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791 institutional managers reported holding CNP in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 108 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 42.5M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 6% of shares outstanding (9.2 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.
CNP's share count grew 11.6% over the past five years. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting), raised 4 years straight; the current rate is $0.89 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $1.49B in dividends.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at CNP over the trailing three years: 2023: 3 buys totaling $1.41M; 2025: 2 buys totaling $101k. 19 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.
CNP's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-28 | -3.6% | -10.8% |
| 2023-10-27 | -2.9% | +7.0% |
| 2024-02-21 | +1.4% | +2.9% |
| 2024-05-01 | +0.3% | +3.3% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
CNP's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-15 (items 1.01, 9.01); 2026-04-23 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-04-17 (items 5.03, 5.07, 9.01); 2026-03-19 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-02-26 (items 1.01, 2.03, 3.02, 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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