How is CenterPoint Energy (CNP) doing?

CenterPoint Energy is a company in the regulated electric industry, based in Houston, TX, worth $25.4B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.

Updated Oct 9, 2026

P3 score

Middling

CenterPoint Energy shares are down 2% over the past year, 16 points behind the S&P 500. Its type is Sleepy Staple. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 38th percentile on market beat, the 58th on staying power and the 49th on business growth. It appears on 4 of our dashboards.

$38.60−2% in a yearWorth $25.4B

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Past year

The past year

Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.

CNP against the S&P 500, past year

$100 a year ago. CenterPoint Energy −2%, the S&P 500 +16%.

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What kind of stock is it?

Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.

Sleepy Staple

LaggingSteadySlowingSold

Lagging steadily on a soft business, with light selling. Slow and predictable.

NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepNow

Sleepy Staple this month; Broken Year before that.

Also Sleepy Staple (80 in all): FE · DTE · WEC · BAX · UAA · UA

EmbracedToppingAccumulatingRejectedStable rankBellwetherDistribution TopCoiled SpringWallflowerHolding rankFaith TradeRolling OverBottom FishedSleepy StapleUnsteady rankHot HandChurning WinnerTurning UpShow-Me GrowerBouncy rankSpeculative PopExhausted RallyFalling KnifeBroken Year

How is it doing against its group?

Its group is Utilities, 36 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Regulated power and water — the rate-sensitive defensive.

CNP, past year−2%14 of 36 in the group

Rest of the group−4%equal-weighted

S&P 500+16%past year

CenterPoint Energy is −2% over the past year, against −4% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 14th of 36 in Utilities.

CNPRest of the group

Best in the groupUGI UGI+15%PNW Pinnacle West Capital+8%ETR Entergy+6%

Worst in the groupBEPC Brookfield Renewable Partners−24%PCG PG&E−21%SRE Sempra−13%

Its closest rivalsAEP American Electric Power+4%DUK Duke Energy−7%SO Southern−10%PCG PG&E−21%EIX Edison International+3%

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How much does it move?

Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.

About usual CenterPoint Energy typically moves 1.7% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings less than 97% of large US stocks.

Typical day1.7%about $0.64 a share

Its usual1.8%about usual, 0.9× its year’s average

Against the S&P 5001.6×the index’s typical day is 1.1%

Unusual day±3.3%twice its typical day

Deepest fall, past year−19%now 14% below its high

In the S&P’s down weeks-9%of the index’s fall, three years; beta 0.1

Typical daily move (ATR)Its year’s average 1.78%

CNP on our dashboards

Every question where CenterPoint Energy appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with CNP highlighted. Select a column to sort.

Question	Reading	Place	Details
Who reports next, and what is expected? Earnings	23Steady	93 of 106	Estimate change, 1M −0.1% · Expected EPS growth +22% · Stock vs S&P, 1M −4.1 pts
Which stocks hold up when the market falls? Leading stocks	89Holds up	55 of 60	Down capture -9% · Up capture 20% · Beta 0.10
Whose cash flow backs up their earnings? Business quality	3Weak	47 of 60	3 years -100% · Last year -100% · Free cash flow −$2.7B
Which companies could struggle with their debt? Value	87Watch	45 of 60	Interest cover 2.2x · Net debt / EBITDA 6.2x · Interest a year $1.0B

Go deeper on Stox

CNP’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.

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How to read this page

How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.

Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.

Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.

Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.

Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.

For financial statements, earnings and news, see CNP’s full profile on Stox.

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