CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (CNP) Stock Analysis
A live, multi-source view of CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (CNP): real-time price, technical indicators, Wall Street analyst consensus, recent news sentiment and social buzz — aggregated into one place so you can size up the stock at a glance.
About CenterPoint Energy, Inc.
CenterPoint Energy, Inc. operates as a public utility holding company in the United States. The company operates through Electric; Natural Gas; and Corporate and Other segments. The Electric segment provides electric transmission and distribution services to electric customers and electric generation assets, as well as optimizes assets in the wholesale power market in Indiana Electric's service territory. The Natural Gas segment engages in the intrastate natural gas sales, and natural gas transportation and distribution for residential, commercial, and industrial customers in Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, and Texas; permanent pipeline connections through interconnects with various interstate and intrastate pipeline companies; and provides home appliance maintenance and repair services to customers in Minnesota and home repair protection plans to natural gas customers in Indiana, Mississippi, Ohio, and Texas through a third party. As of December 31, 2025, it served approximately 2,859,313 metered customers; owned 355 substations with transformer capacity of 81,692 megavolt amperes; and owned and operated approximately 208 miles of intrastate pipeline in Louisiana and Texas.
Sector: Utilities · Industry: Utilities - Regulated Electric · United States · 8,794 employees · centerpointenergy.com
Key statistics · as of 2026-09-05
As of 2026-09-05, CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (CNP) had a market capitalization of $26.13B, a trailing P/E of 23.6 (forward 19.0), a dividend yield of 2.40% and a beta of 0.45; the shares traded in a 52-week range of $37.13 – $45.26 (7.1% over the year).
- Market cap
- $26.13B
- Enterprise value
- $50.32B
- Trailing P/E
- 23.6
- Forward P/E
- 19.0
- PEG ratio
- 1.78
- Price / book
- 2.23
- EPS (trailing)
- $1.68
- EPS (forward)
- $2.09
- Dividend yield
- 2.40%
- Payout ratio
- 53.6%
- Ex-dividend date
- 2026-08-20
- 52-week range
- $37.13 – $45.26
- 52-week change
- 7.1%
- Beta
- 0.45
- Average volume
- 6.4M
- Shares outstanding
- 658.7M
- Short % of float
- 8.18%
- Profit margin
- 11.6%
Fundamental figures are recorded once every few days, dated above; they are not live and can differ from the interactive tiles.
Last universe scan · 2026-09-08
In RapidTradeView’s 2026-09-08 scan of the US universe, CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (CNP) last closed at $39.67 (the last completed close before that scan).
Technicals at the scan: RSI 42 (neutral territory), price -0.5% versus its 20-day average, 20-day versus 50-day average spread -4.9%, MACD histogram 0.13.
Sentiment inputs: analyst consensus score 63/100.
Next scheduled company event: in 2 days from the scan date.
Scan values are recorded once per trading day and are not live quotes; the interactive tiles above update in real time.
Smart Money · last 90 days
Members of Congress disclosed 0 buys and 0 sells of CNP; corporate insiders filed 1 buy and 0 sells (1 filer, latest disclosure 2026-08-18). Filings arrive days to weeks after the trade and are not a live signal. Most active filers: Laurie Lee Fitch (1B/0S). Who is trading what
RapidTradeView pick record
CNP has not appeared in the daily picks yet. Full scoreboard
What this page covers
RapidTradeView pulls CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (CNP) data from multiple independent sources and combines it into a single dashboard. Below the summary you’ll find live, interactive tiles for each of the following:
- Price & chart — real-time quote with pre/post-market moves and a line or candlestick chart.
- Technical indicators — RSI, MACD, moving averages, Bollinger Bands, volume and support/resistance, distilled into one overall signal.
- Analyst consensus — the buy/hold/sell breakdown and price targets published by Wall Street analysts.
- News sentiment — recent headlines, each scored for tone so the prevailing narrative is obvious.
- Earnings — current EPS, year-over-year change and the next scheduled earnings date.
- Social buzz — Reddit mention volume and StockTwits sentiment for the retail-trader angle.
How to read the signals
No single indicator tells the whole story. A bullish technical reading paired with a cautious analyst consensus, or strong social buzz against weak earnings, is exactly the kind of tension this view is built to surface. RapidTradeView’s signals are generated by deterministic, statistical models — they describe what the data is doing, they are not personalised recommendations to buy or sell CNP.
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