CHESAPEAKE UTILITIES CORP
CHESAPEAKE UTILITIES CORP (CPK) has a dated report snapshot, but its current priced-in claim is temporarily suppressed because the live engine record is unavailable or has changed.
- Chesapeake Utilities is a small, fast-growing regulated energy company spanning natural gas distribution and transmission, propane, and renewable natural gas, concentrated in the Mid-Atlantic and Florida. The counterintuitive part is the growth: Q1 2026 EPS rose 11.8% to $2.47, and management targets an 8% long-term EPS CAGR, fast for a utility. - That growth rests on a large capital plan. The company guides $450M to $500M of 2026 capex and $1.5B to $1.8B over 2024 to 2028, funding rate-base e
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327 institutional managers reported holding CPK in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 89% of the company; the top 10 hold 56%. 42 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, State Street, among others. On the short side, 722k shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 3% of shares outstanding (5.6 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.
CPK's share count grew 36.4% over the past five years. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (16 and counting), raised 15 years straight; the current rate is $2.69 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $152.10M in dividends.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at CPK over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 16 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.
CPK's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-04 | -4.2% | -16.7% |
| 2023-11-03 | +3.7% | +11.6% |
| 2024-02-22 | -1.4% | +2.4% |
| 2024-05-09 | +0.7% | -2.3% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
CPK's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-13 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-05-08 (items 5.07, 9.01); 2026-05-06 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-03-24 (items 5.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-02-25 (items 2.02, 7.01, 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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