CenterPoint Energy Read from its own SEC filings · nothing written, nothing inferred
🫧 Edgar looked up CenterPoint Energy, Inc.. Last filing: 8-K (2.01 Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets), 2026-10-01. 7 event filings (8-K) in the past twelve months.
🔖 Exposure: revenue $6.6B (FY2017), total debt $2.5B. Experience: revenue up 48.2% on the year, up 4.6% a year over 4 years; operating margin 6.7%, down from 7.1%. Soundness: equity 30.7% of assets, return on equity 24.0%, payout 80.7% of profit. Credibility: four or more audited years, reasonable weight. Range: 80% of past cases like this landed between $5.8B and $11.2B next year (method v4.1: its own 6-year record of growth weighed at 63% against $1B–10B filers; across 2019–2025, 69.0% landed inside, 83.4% on the one year the method never saw). In a shock year the stress range is $4.6B to $14.2B. A statistical range, not company guidance. Against peers (29 filers, $50M+ revenue, its industry group): operating margin 6.7% against a 27.5% median; growth 48.2% against 13.0%.
Gold paid out, navy kept. Kept share × return on equity = the growth it can fund itself. Facts from the filings, not a recommendation.
Cash
| Cash flow (op · inv · fin · free) | $278M · −$346M · $79M · −$235M |
| Investment book (cash · short · long) | $12M · — · — · current ratio 0.96 |
The figures, as filed
| Fiscal year end | 2017-12-31 |
| Revenue | $6.6B |
| Revenue, on the year | 48.2% |
| Revenue, a year over the record | 4.6% |
| Operating margin | 6.7% |
| Operating margin, prior year | 7.1% |
| Net margin | 11.3% |
| Research and development | not filed separately |
| Total debt | $2.5B |
| Equity of assets | 30.7% |
| Return on equity | 24.0% |
| Payout of profit | 80.7% |
| Dividend per share | — |
| Earnings per share | — |
| Book value per share | — |
| Revenue per share | — |
| Shares outstanding | — |
| Audited years read | 5 |
Peers: the median of 29 filers with $50M+ revenue in natural gas transmisison & distribution.
Health HarborCenterPoint Energy sails as: Sound ship
Health watch · 12 monthsDirector or officer change
No growth figure to set the speed.
🌊 Visit the Bay →- revenue is hard to predict: its 80% range is ±32%
Boat condition = number of warning signs: a serious warning filing in 12 months; liabilities over assets; slow and jumpy; negative operating cash; an 80% revenue range of ±25% or wider. A picture of the signs, not a rating and not investment advice.
- 8-K · 2026-10-01 · 2.01 Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets; 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure; 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
- 8-K · 2026-09-14 · 8.01 Other Events
- 8-K · 2026-09-09 · 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement; 1.02 Termination of a Material Definitive Agreement; 2.03 Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation; 8.01 Other Events; 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
- 10-Q · 2026-07-28
- 10-Q · 2026-04-23
- 8-K · 2026-02-23 · 5.02 Departure or Election of Directors; Appointment of Officers
Figures are as filed in audited 10-K reports and can move with restatements, acquisitions, disposals or a change in fiscal year. A range set from how past company-years turned out is not a promise about the next one, and says nothing about the share price. Reporting, not investment advice. No price targets and no trading recommendations. Figures from the SEC’s own data · every filing · this page as JSON · ask about another company