CNP

CenterPoint Energy, Inc. ·NYSE·Utilities
40.53 live · 2026-08-12 15:59

Some scores are at the bottom of their range

This score sits at the bottom of the 0–100 range. The underlying calculation was negative, so the displayed value is a floor, not a measurement of zero.

  • Tactical Score: displayed 0, underlying value -36.0
16.9%
Brown Bear Score
33.9%
Business Conviction Score
21.2%
Position Health Score
4.0%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +5.4% · range 37.32–45.04

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets -5.1%
OCF / assets 5.3%
FCF / revenue 26.6%
Gross margin 47.0%
ROIC 5.3%
Forward P/E 19.4

FCF/assets and OCF/assets are the cash-flow measures Brown Bear's own testing found to survive; FCF/revenue is shown alongside for context. Assets are from the latest annual filing (FY2025).

Price vs Earnings growth

Forward EPS growth has outpaced trailing price return by +18.2pp

Confidence 95.0/100

Takeaway Earnings growth is outpacing price — consistent with the stock not yet fully reflecting its improving forward estimates.

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-10-21 before the open · consensus EPS 0.50

Q2 23 revenue: 1.87bnQ2 23 net income: 118.00mQ2 23 EPS: 0.19Q3 23 revenue: 1.86bnQ3 23 net income: 282.00mQ3 23 EPS: 0.45Q3 23Q4 23 revenue: 2.12bnQ4 23 net income: 192.00mQ4 23 EPS: 0.30Q1 24 revenue: 2.59bnQ1 24 net income: 350.00mQ1 24 EPS: 0.55Q1 24Q2 24 revenue: 1.91bnQ2 24 net income: 228.00mQ2 24 EPS: 0.36Q3 24 revenue: 1.85bnQ3 24 net income: 193.00mQ3 24 EPS: 0.30Q3 24Q4 24 revenue: 2.20bnQ4 24 net income: 248.00mQ4 24 EPS: 0.39Q1 25 revenue: 2.96bnQ1 25 net income: 297.00mQ1 25 EPS: 0.45Q1 25Q2 25 revenue: 1.95bnQ2 25 net income: 198.00mQ2 25 EPS: 0.30Q3 25 revenue: 1.99bnQ3 25 net income: 293.00mQ3 25 EPS: 0.45Q3 25Q4 25 revenue: 2.44bnQ4 25 net income: 264.00mQ4 25 EPS: 0.40Q1 26 revenue: 2.98bnQ1 26 net income: 316.00mQ1 26 EPS: 0.48Q1 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (0.19–0.55, own scale) Derived Q4

12 quarters to Q1 26. Revenue and net income share one scale, so the gap between them is the margin. The line is GAAP EPS — it spans every quarter shown, where the reported figure only goes back as far as the consensus feed does.

Quarter endingRevenueYoY Net incomeEPS (GAAP) EPS reportedvs consensus Filed
2026-03-31 2.98bn +0.6% 316.00m 0.48 0.56 -0.5% 2026-04-23
2025-12-31 (derived) 2.44bn +10.7% 264.00m 0.40 0.45 -1.1% 2026-02-19
2025-09-30 1.99bn +7.6% 293.00m 0.45 0.50 +12.6% 2025-10-23
2025-06-30 1.95bn +2.5% 198.00m 0.30 2025-07-24

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±1.7%
On an ordinary two days ±1.1% — filings move it 1.6× as much
Direction 6 up, 5 down over 11 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +9.5% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-11-01: price -1.7%Q1 23 revenue -1.0% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-04-27: price +0.4%Q1 23Q2 23 revenue -4.4% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-07-27: price -3.5%Q3 23 revenue -2.2% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-10-26: price -2.8%Q3 23Q1 24 revenue -6.0% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-04-30: price +0.3%Q2 24 revenue +1.8% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-07-30: price -4.9%Q2 24Q3 24 revenue -0.8% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-10-28: price +0.4%Q1 25 revenue +14.0% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-04-24: price +2.3%Q1 25Q2 25 revenue +2.5% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-07-24: price +3.3%Q3 25 revenue +7.6% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-10-23: price -1.3%Q3 25Q1 26 revenue +0.6% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-04-23: price +0.8%

Revenue up year on year Revenue down Price move around the filing separate scales — a crossing means nothing

Quarter endingFiledRevenue YoY Move around filingNext 20 sessions vs SPY
2026-03-31 2026-04-23 +0.6% +0.8% -3.0%
2025-09-30 2025-10-23 +7.6% -1.3% +3.3%
2025-06-30 2025-07-24 +2.5% +3.3% -1.5%
2025-03-31 2025-04-24 +14.0% +2.3% -6.2%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Flat — little net change
Diluted shares 659.4M as at 2026-03-31
Change over 1 year +0.9%
Change over 3 years +4.2%
Public float $23.87bn as at 2025-06-30 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyCurrent Price Reasonable
Reference band 39.92 — 40.94
Protective stop 37.82 (Atr, 6.5% risk)
Support 40.00 (2 touches, 1.3% away)
Resistance 43.21 (6.6% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the floor than the ceiling: about 1.3% above 40.00, a price buyers have stepped in at before, and 6.6% below 43.21, where sellers have turned up before. That floor has held 2 times, which is how it was spotted. If someone bought at today's price and sold if it dropped through the level below, they would be about 6.5% out of pocket. That is all this figure means — an illustration of the risk, not a price to sell at.

Levels are computed from price structure. They describe where the engine locates support and extension — they are not targets, and not advice.

Ichimoku Cloud (Adaptive)

Daily cloudPrice BELOW the cloud | periods 5/13/27 (51% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BEAR | cloud twist BEAR
Cloud thickness100% percentile (thick — substantial structure)
Chikou spanNot clear of price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice BELOW the weekly cloud (context only, not scored)

Takeaway The stock is trading below its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 40.88 to 42.53. Being below it means the medium-term picture is pointing downwards, and that band is the first hurdle it would have to climb back through. Its shorter-term averages agree with that. The band is unusually wide at the moment, so it marks a broad zone rather than a single level.

Trailing returns

21 days -7.4%
63 days -3.8%
126 days -1.1%
252 days +5.1%
Below 252d high10.0%

Trend context

PositionBelow trend
ExtensionNormal
Trend slopeFalling
Direction of travelHolding its deviation

Takeaway The share price is below the level its own longer-run trend suggests is fair, and that fair level is drifting down. The gap between the two has been fairly steady. Neither is stretched far enough to stand out.

Volatility

State Expanding
Current band width13.9% of price
Recent tightest6.3% (9 sessions ago, narrower than 43.0% of its history)
Expansion since2.20×
Band 39.36 — 45.25

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 14% wide. That is normal for this stock, so there is nothing unusual to read into it either way.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 40.03–44.562026-07-032026-08-12
Position Health Business Conviction Share price

History begins when the site started recording, not when the company listed, so a short line means a short record and nothing more.

Repair Pathway

  1. Nearest Trigger RSI recovery above 50 repair trigger repair engine identifies this as the nearest technical repair catalyst · Deteriorating rapidly
  2. Trigger 2 Volume confirmation above 1.2x +0.20x volume confirmation would improve confidence in the pathway · Broadly stable
  3. Trigger 3 EMA20 reclaim +3.3% gap is improving · Broadly stable
  4. Trigger 4 MACD bullish crossover secondary repair secondary repair catalyst could add confirmation if the primary trigger develops · Broadly stable
  5. Trigger 5 MACD histogram above zero 0.28 gap is improving · Broadly stable

Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑

Insider activity

ActivityNo filings in the window
Buy filings0
Sell filings0

Open-market Form 4 purchases and sales over the last 75 days, read from SEC EDGAR Form 4. Grants, option exercises, gifts and shares withheld for tax are excluded — they are compensation mechanics, not a decision to buy or sell. Reported Form 4 activity. Brown Bear tested insider cluster-buying as a return signal and rejected it as era-unstable; shown as fact, not signal.

Volume confirmation

Volume-price trend Below its signal line
Confirmation Moderate

No absorption or distribution event in the recent window.

Takeaway The heaviest trading has been happening on days when the price falls: when large numbers of shares change hands, the price has tended to go down rather than up. That tells you where the weight of trading has been. It does not tell you what happens next, and it is not a signal to sell.

Options Positioning

No binary-event flag

CNP: no binary-event flag. Near IV 23%, far IV 39% (ratio 0.58), implied move 2.8%.

Implied volatility 23% near (9d) · 39% far (100d)
Term structure 0.58× near/far
Historical volatility 20%
Implied vs historical 1.14×
Implied move ±2.8% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.37×
Skew Flat (1.05×)
Put wall 40.00 (-1.3% away)
Gamma pin 40.00

Takeaway Insuring against a move in this stock costs less for the next few weeks than for the next few months, which is the normal state of affairs and suggests no particular date is worrying anyone. Options traders are positioned for a move of around 2.8% in either direction by 2026-08-21.

Chain as at 2026-08-12. This is a risk read on whether a specific event is being priced — not a directional view.

Context & Methodthe record, and how it was builtTop ↑

Relative Rotation

ImprovingLeadingLaggingWeakeningvs sectorvs SPYsector vs SPYRS-Ratio →RS-Momentum →

Stock Rotation Headwind

Rotation health 12.1/100; Severe Rotation Headwind.

Rotation health 12.1
Rotation strength 76.2
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Lagging 80.5 93.7
Stock vs SPY Lagging 79.0 97.8
Sector vs SPY Lagging 79.5 94.2

Direction of travel: South-West / deteriorating rotation

Position only. Brown Bear's RRG redesign programme is closed — five constructions, none beat an appropriate null — so this section describes where the name sits, and is not a signal.

News Headlines

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Headlines are supplied by third-party feeds and are not written, ranked or interpreted by Brown Bear. They feed no score on this page.

Detailed Scoring

Positive signals

  • Piotroski F-score 4/9 (+5.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 47.0% (+9.9)
  • ROIC quality: 5.3% (+0.3)
  • FCF margin quality: 26.6% (+17.7)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.031) (+2.0)
  • Accrual ratio improving (-0.03 -> -0.03) (+5.0)
  • Track 1: ADX 16.5 and rising (+2.0)
  • Track 1: EMA50 support proximity 4.7% (+1.1)
  • Track 1: EMA200 support proximity 2.1% (+5.6)
  • Track 1: Bollinger position 0.20 (+6.4)

Negative signals

  • Track 1: weak volume confirmation (0.65x average)
  • Relative strength versus sector deteriorating
  • Track 1: negative 20-day momentum acceleration (-0.04)
  • Track 1: bearish DI spread (-14.3)
  • Weak relative momentum rank (0.40)
  • Track 1: price below EMA20 by 3.2%
  • Track 1: EMA20 slope deteriorating -2.2%
  • Track 1: weak MACD line/signal structure (-5.0)
  • Track 1: MACD slope deteriorating (-3.0)
  • Track 1: RSI deterioration/extension 17.0, 5-day change -12.5
  • Track 1: weak VPT confirmation (-0.29)
  • Track 1: price below EMA50 by 4.7%
  • Track 1: EMA50 slope deteriorating -1.8%
  • Below-average Altman Z-score (1.85)

Chase risk is not elevated for this name, so extension penalties are omitted from the negative signals above.