Is the business good?
How good a business is CEG?
Constellation Energy earns 6.5% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
6.5%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 2.5 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 15%
Operating margin · Utilities median 21% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 0.09×
Cash conversion · −0.80× a year ago · some of the reported profit has not turned into cash yet
- Share count, year on year
- +15%
Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 1.5% |
| FY2021 | −1.8% |
| FY2022 | 2.0% |
| FY2023 | 6.5% |
| FY2024 | 18% |
| FY2025 | 12% |
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- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 15%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 11%
- Free cash flow margin
- 0.99%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $31.3B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $309M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $3.46B
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 6.5%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.