Centerpoint Energy Inc (CNP) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $34.55, with 4.22 million shares of worth about $145.8 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 26.05% during that period and on March 12, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 0.06%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 651.73M shares, out of which, 648.68M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 2.16% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 6.70%. Year-to-date (YTD), CNP shares are showing a performance of 8.89% which increased to 21.96% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $25.41 but also hit the highest price of $35.01 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Centerpoint Energy Inc shares is 4.57 million. The stock is currently trading 1.74% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 5.15% for SMA50 and it goes to 13.81% higher than SMA200.
Centerpoint Energy Inc (NYSE: CNP) currently have 651.73M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 97.63% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $22.52B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.66. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 21.80, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.58 in the same period. Its PEG reads 2.86 and has Quick Ratio of 0.91 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 2.03. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for CNP, volatility over the week remained 2.21% while standing at 2.07% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 7.92% while it is estimated to increase by 7.26% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 7.63% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 3.47% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Evercore ISI on March 11, 2025 offering an Outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $36 and $37 to it. On December 12, 2024, Ladenburg Thalmann Initiated their recommendations, while on December 03, 2024, UBS Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $37. Stock get a Neutral rating from BofA Securities on September 12, 2024.
