CenterPoint Energy Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:CNP)

9 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for CenterPoint Energy in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" CNP shares.
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9 brokerages have issued 1-year price objectives for CenterPoint Energy's stock. Their CNP share price targets range from $27.00 to $35.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $31.10 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 9.8% from the stock's current price.
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CenterPoint Energy's stock was trading at $29.99 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, CNP stock has decreased by 5.5% and is now trading at $28.33.
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CenterPoint Energy saw a decline in short interest in October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totaling 11,960,000 shares, a decline of 5.7% from the October 15th total of 12,680,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 4,540,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.6 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, February 16th 2024.
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CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (NYSE:CNP) released its earnings results on Thursday, October, 26th. The utilities provider reported $0.40 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.35 by $0.05. The utilities provider had revenue of $1.86 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.09 billion. CenterPoint Energy had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 10.28% and a net margin of 9.18%. The firm's revenue was down 2.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.32 earnings per share.
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CenterPoint Energy declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, September 28th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, November 16th will be given a dividend of $0.20 per share on Thursday, December 14th. This represents a $0.80 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.82%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, November 15th. This is a boost from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.19.
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CenterPoint Energy (NYSE:CNP) pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.87%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 3 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 64.00%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, CNP will have a dividend payout ratio of 49.38% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of CenterPoint Energy (NYSE:CNP) stock in their portfolio include Virtus Reaves Utilities ETF (UTES), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Utilities ETF (RSPU), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Utilities ETF (RYU), Invesco Dorsey Wright Utilities Momentum ETF (PUI), Neuberger Berman Carbon Transition & Infrastructure ETF (NBCT), Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLU), Nuveen ESG Mid-Cap Value ETF (NUMV) and PGIM Jennison Focused Value ETF (PJFV).

CenterPoint Energy updated its FY24 earnings guidance on Thursday, October, 26th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $1.61-1.63 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $1.62.

9 employees have rated CenterPoint Energy Chief Executive Officer David J. Lesar on Glassdoor.com. David J. Lesar has an approval rating of 100% among the company's employees. This puts David J. Lesar in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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CenterPoint Energy's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Boston Partners (3.14%), Deutsche Bank AG (2.78%), Deutsche Bank AG (2.78%), Jennison Associates LLC (1.35%), Invesco Ltd. (1.31%) and Morgan Stanley (1.25%). Insiders that own company stock include Barry T Smitherman, Christopher A Foster, David J Lesar, David J Lesar, Jason P Wells, Jason P Wells, Leslie D Biddle and Ted Pound.
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