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Card text CC BY 4.0, POPS4.", "notAdvice": "Reporting, not investment advice. No price targets, no buy or sell views.", "edgar": "🫧 Edgar looked up EVERGY KANSAS CENTRAL, INC.. Last filing: 8-K (8.01 Other Events), 2026-09-16. 9 event filings (8-K) in the past twelve months.", "auditor": { "changes": [], "nonReliance": [], "restatedSince": null }, "metrics": { "fiscalYearEnd": "2017-12-31", "revenue": 2571003000, "revenueGrowth1y": 0.0034799755043446456, "revenueGrowthPerYear": 0.02048964596412528, "yearsOfData": 5, "operatingMargin": 0.25621090290443066, "operatingMarginPrior": 0.2661435774819512, "netMargin": 0.13090299777946585, "operatingCashFlow": null, "capitalSpending": 764645000, "freeCashFlow": null, "researchAndDevelopment": null, "researchShareOfRevenue": null, "cash": 3432000, "longTermDebt": 3687555000, "longTermDebtChange": 0.049488142028135895, "revenueHistory": [ { "fiscalYearEnd": "2013-12-31", "revenue": 2370654000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2014-12-31", "revenue": 2601703000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2015-12-31", "revenue": 2459164000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2016-12-31", "revenue": 2562087000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2017-12-31", "revenue": 2571003000 } ], "totalEquity": 3908122000, "totalAssets": 11624368000, "equityRatio": 0.33620081539056573, "returnOnEquity": 0.08611604243675094, "dividendsPaid": 223117000, "payoutRatio": 0.6629495590577384, "dividendPerShare": 1.6, "dividendYearsRising": 9, "dividendCut": false, "priceBased": "Dividend yield, price/earnings and price/book need a share price. The boards carry filings only, so they are not shown.", "range80": { "low": 2044239282.3359132, "high": 3029730720.595173, "baseline": 2570400204.119091, "n": 4599, "band": "b1" }, "ifPaceHeld": { "low": 2044239282.3359132, "high": 3029730720.595173 } }, "edgarette": "🔖 Exposure: revenue $2.6B (FY2017), total debt $3.7B. Experience: revenue up 0.3% on the year, up 2.0% a year over 4 years; operating margin 25.6%, down from 26.6%. Soundness: equity 33.6% of assets, return on equity 8.6%, payout 66.3% of profit, dividend per share up 9 years running. Credibility: four or more audited years, reasonable weight. Range: 80% of past cases like this landed between $2.0B and $3.0B next year (method v3, set from 4,599 SEC company-years; on a year the method never saw, 83% landed inside). A range, not a forecast. Against peers (18 filers, $50M+ revenue, electric & other services combined): operating margin 25.6% against a 20.2% median; growth 0.3% against 13.8%.", "peers": { "sic": 4931, "sicDescription": "Electric & Other Services Combined", "calendarYear": 2025, "minRevenue": 50000000, "depth": 4, "group": "4931", "growth": [ 0.1379, 18 ], "opMargin": [ 0.2023, 18 ], "equityRatio": [ 0.2856, 15 ], "returnOnEquity": [ 0.0823, 13 ], "payoutRatio": [ 0.5996, 11 ] }, "summary": "Evergy Kansas Central grew revenue 0.3% in FY2017 to $2.6 billion, operating margin 25.6% against a 20.2% median for electric & other services combined, equity 33.6% of assets, and dividend per share up 9 years running. Every figure is from the company’s own annual report filed with the SEC.", "chart": "
EVERGY KANSAS CENTRAL, INC. against its own record and its peers
Operating marginPeer median 20.2%25.6%Revenue, on the yearPeer median 13.8%0.3%Equity of assetsPeer median 28.6%33.6%Return on equityPeer median 8.2%8.6%Payout of profitPeer median 60.0%66.3%Gold tick: the median of 11–15 peers with $50M+ revenue in electric & other services combined
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Handed back now, or kept to compound
Of each dollar of profit66.3% paid out33.7% keptHanded back per share$1.6up 9 years runningGrowth its own profit can fund2.9%retained x return on equityRevenue growth it managed0.3%last year, for comparison

Gold is paid out to shareholders; navy is kept in the business. Retained profit times return on equity is the pace a company can fund from itself. Facts from the filings, not a recommendation.

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