Is it safe?
Can CNP take a bad year?
CenterPoint Energy carries $21.3B of net debt at 5.74× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$21.3B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 5.74×
Net debt / EBITDA · 5.48× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 0.88
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Cash runway
- 0.5 years
Cash runway · burning $668M a quarter at the current rate
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- Total debtQ1 2026
- $22.5B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.19B
- Net debt
- $21.3B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $3.71B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $2.12B
- Debt / equity
- 1.96×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 6.06×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 18%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −60%
- Below its 52-week high
- −11%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Utilities - Regulated Electric
Ranks #34 of 37 by Smart Score