With 3.56 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 4.93 million shares. During the session, the Utilities – Regulated Electric company that operates in wider Utilities sector, reached to the highest price of $31.3 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $30.82. The 52-week range on CNP shows that it touched its highest point at $33.00 and its lowest point at $25.41 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $32.63. With its current market cap of 20.12 billion, CNP has annualized dividend of $0.81 while the current yield stands at 2.62%. CNP paid its most recent dividend on 1723680000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1740009600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.95.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of CNP was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -3.02%, but this was down by -3.50% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 4.15% while six-month performance rose 4.18%. The stock gained 5.57% in the past year, while it has lost -2.71% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for CNP yields 1.51 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.74. For the next quarter, that number is 0.40. This implies an EPS growth rate of 7.86% for this year and 7.84% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 7.70% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 13.22%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 651.72 million CNP shares are outstanding with a float of 649.08 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 18.85 million, which was 289.00001 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Jason P. Wells CPA as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Christopher A. Foster serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.94135004 of CNP’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, CNP reported revenue of $1856000000.0 and operating income of $424000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $773000000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.3.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for CNP since 8 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 6 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With CNP analysts setting a high price target of 37.0 and a low target of 29.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 32.23. Based on these targets, CNP could surge 19.86% to reach the target high and fall by -6.06% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 4.41% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.6379 being high and $1.60794 being low. For CNP, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.61793.
