CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (CNP)
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About CenterPoint Energy, Inc.
CenterPoint Energy, Inc. operates as a public utility holding company in the United States. The company operates through Electric and Natural Gas segments. The Electric segment includes electric transmission and distribution services to electric customers and electric generation assets, as well as assets in the wholesale power market. The Natural Gas segment provides natural gas distribution services, as well as home appliance maintenance and repair services to customers in Minnesota; and home repair protection plans to natural gas customers in Arkansas, Indiana, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Texas and Louisiana through a third party. This segment also engages in the sale of regulated intrastate natural gas, and transportation and storage of natural gas for residential, commercial, industrial, and transportation customers. As of December 31, 2021, it served approximately 2.7 million metered customers; owned 239 substation sites with a total installed rated transformer capacity of 71,241 megavolt amperes; operated approximately 1,00,000 linear miles of natural gas distribution and transmission mains; and owned and operated 285 miles of intrastate pipeline in Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma. The company was founded in 1866 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
Insider Activity of CenterPoint Energy, Inc.
Over the last 12 months, insiders at CenterPoint Energy, Inc. have bought $1.41M and sold $166,811 worth of CenterPoint Energy, Inc. stock.
On average, over the past 5 years, insiders at CenterPoint Energy, Inc. have bought $1.15M and sold $734,758 worth of stock each year.
Highest buying activity among insiders over the last 12 months: LESAR DAVID J (CEO) — $2.01M. Wells Jason P. (President & COO) — $269,050. Foster Christopher A (EVP and CFO) — $140,497.
The last purchase of 5,000 shares for transaction amount of $140,497 was made by Foster Christopher A (EVP and CFO) on 2023‑11‑29.
List of Insider Buy and Sell Transactions, CenterPoint Energy, Inc.
| 2024-05-03 | Sale | Smitherman Barry T | director | 5,670 0.0009% | $29.42 | $166,811 | +2.48% | |
| 2023-11-29 | Foster Christopher A | EVP and CFO | 5,000 0.0008% | $28.10 | $140,497 | +2.14% | ||
| 2023-11-13 | LESAR DAVID J | CEO | 37,000 0.006% | $27.12 | $1M | +6.23% | ||
| 2023-11-09 | Wells Jason P. | President & COO | 10,000 0.0016% | $26.91 | $269,050 | +5.90% | ||
| 2023-05-08 | Sale | Smitherman Barry T | director | 5,000 0.0008% | $30.51 | $152,548 | -5.83% | |
| 2023-05-05 | Sale | Pound Ted | director | 2,770 0.0004% | $30.50 | $84,485 | -6.69% | |
| 2022-11-07 | Smitherman Barry T | director | 8,005 0.0013% | $28.38 | $227,167 | +5.91% | ||
| 2022-05-05 | Sale | Smitherman Barry T | 16,347 0.0026% | $31.23 | $510,576 | -1.36% | ||
| 2022-03-09 | Sale | Smitherman Barry T | 2,000 0.0003% | $28.67 | $57,340 | +7.68% | ||
| 2021-11-08 | Sale | Smitherman Barry T | director | 16,910 0.0028% | $26.50 | $448,096 | +11.33% | |
| 2021-05-13 | LESAR DAVID J | President & CEO | 50,000 0.0082% | $23.58 | $1.18M | +10.36% | ||
| 2021-05-11 | Wells Jason P. | EVP & CFO | 10,000 0.0017% | $24.06 | $240,600 | +12.54% | ||
| 2021-03-04 | Sale | Biddle Leslie D. | director | 35,000 0.0064% | $19.94 | $697,764 | +31.07% | |
| 2021-03-01 | Biddle Leslie D. | director | 50,000 0.0092% | $19.84 | $992,000 | +32.54% | ||
| 2021-03-01 | Smitherman Barry T | director | 10,000 0.0018% | $19.80 | $198,000 | +32.54% | ||
| 2020-05-12 | LESAR DAVID J | director | 6,000 0.0011% | $17.85 | $107,100 | +20.50% | ||
| 2020-05-11 | Smitherman Barry T | director | 3,000 0.0006% | $18.13 | $54,375 | +17.83% | ||
| 2020-05-11 | LESAR DAVID J | director | 11,110 0.0021% | $18.05 | $200,480 | +17.83% | ||
| 2020-02-03 | Sale | Prochazka Scott M | President & CEO | 7,000 0.0014% | $26.63 | $186,410 | -22.50% | |
| 2020-01-02 | Sale | Prochazka Scott M | President & CEO | 7,000 0.0014% | $26.83 | $187,810 | -24.27% |
Insider Historical Profitability
| Foster Christopher A | EVP and CFO | 147693 0.0234% | $30.50 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wells Jason P. | President & COO | 55560 0.0088% | $30.50 | 2 | 0 | +12.54% |
| LESAR DAVID J | CEO | 37000 0.0059% | $30.50 | 4 | 0 | +16.23% |
| Smitherman Barry T | director | 21203 0.0033% | $30.50 | 3 | 5 | +18.76% |
| MCCLANAHAN DAVID M | President and CEO | 987679 0.1565% | $30.50 | 0 | 4 | |
| Prochazka Scott M | President & CEO | 359169 0.0569% | $30.50 | 0 | 35 | |
| WHITLOCK GARY L | EVP & Chief Financial Officer | 319874 0.0507% | $30.50 | 1 | 2 | +4.19% |
| ROZZELL SCOTT E | EVP, Gen.Counsel, Corp. Sec | 185059 0.0293% | $30.50 | 0 | 3 | |
| STANDISH THOMAS R | Sr. VP and Group Pres | 118650 0.0188% | $30.50 | 0 | 2 | |
| MCGOLDRICK JOSEPH B | Exec VP - Div Pres | 108035 0.0171% | $30.50 | 1 | 3 | <0.0001% |
| CARROLL MILTON | Executive Chairman | 90521 0.0143% | $30.50 | 0 | 20 | |
| Bridge Tracy B | Exec VP - Div Pres | 63487 0.0101% | $30.50 | 2 | 1 | <0.0001% |
| BRIAN JAMES S | Senior VP & CAO | 52290 0.0083% | $30.50 | 0 | 1 | |
| Longoria Janiece M | director | 52340 0.0083% | $30.50 | 0 | 2 | |
| ROGERS WILLIAM D | EVP & Chief Financial Officer | 47110 0.0075% | $30.50 | 1 | 0 | <0.0001% |
| Pound Ted | director | 46541 0.0074% | $30.50 | 0 | 2 | |
| Harper C Gregory | Sr. VP & Div. Group Pres. | 34693 0.0055% | $30.50 | 0 | 1 | |
| Biddle Leslie D. | director | 34096 0.0054% | $30.50 | 1 | 1 | +32.54% |
| CROSSWELL O HOLCOMBE | director | 24501 0.0039% | $30.50 | 1 | 4 | +41.66% |
| Vortherms Joseph John | Senior VP | 20400 0.0032% | $30.50 | 0 | 1 | |
| Smith Phillip R | director | 15210 0.0024% | $30.50 | 1 | 0 | <0.0001% |
| Wareing Peter S | director | 10000 0.0016% | $30.50 | 3 | 1 | +1.55% |
| OCONNELL ROBERT T | director | 7999 0.0013% | $30.50 | 0 | 5 | |
| Wolff Sherman | director | 6000 0.001% | $30.50 | 3 | 0 | +15.13% |
| JOHNSON MICHAEL P | director | 3200 0.0005% | $30.50 | 1 | 0 | <0.0001% |
| RHENEY SUSAN | director | 2000 0.0003% | $30.50 | 1 | 0 | <0.0001% |
| KELLEY BYRON R | Sr. VP and Grp Pres Pipelines | 0 0% | $30.50 | 0 | 1 |
Institutional Investor Ownership
| Capital International Investors | $2.39B | 13.09 | 83.75M | +1.04% | +$24.65M | 0.48 | |
| The Vanguard Group | $2.15B | 11.8 | 75.49M | -1.25% | -$27.13M | 0.04 | |
| BlackRock | $1.45B | 7.94 | 50.8M | +2.47% | +$34.93M | 0.03 | |
| T Rowe Price Investment Management Inc | $940.09M | 5.16 | 33M | +34.54% | +$241.35M | 0.58 | |
| State Street | $859.94M | 4.72 | 30.18M | -8.42% | -$79.09M | 0.04 | |
| Boston Partners | $499.96M | 2.74 | 17.55M | +3.28% | +$15.87M | 0.59 | |
| Neuberger Berman | $467.03M | 2.56 | 16.39M | -2.4% | -$11.5M | 0.39 | |
| Capital Research Global Investors | $430.77M | 2.36 | 15.12M | -34.32% | -$225.07M | 0.1 | |
| Geode Capital Management | $405.23M | 2.23 | 14.26M | +3.17% | +$12.45M | 0.04 | |
| Deutsche Bank | $398.16M | 2.19 | 13.98M | -17.91% | -$86.9M | 0.18 | |
| T. Rowe Price | $302.07M | 1.66 | 10.6M | +38.76% | +$84.37M | 0.04 | |
| Invesco | $243.67M | 1.34 | 8.55M | +4.74% | +$11.03M | 0.05 | |
| Legal & General | $231.18M | 1.27 | 8.11M | +1.95% | +$4.43M | 0.05 | |
| Morgan Stanley | $225.01M | 1.24 | 7.9M | -6.79% | -$16.4M | 0.02 | |
| JENNISON ASSOCIATES LLC | $199.5M | 1.1 | 7M | -12.31% | -$28M | 0.13 | |
| Franklin Templeton Investments | $167.23M | 0.92 | 5.87M | -4.93% | -$8.67M | 0.05 | |
| Massachusetts Financial Services Co Ma | $162.63M | 0.89 | 5.71M | -1.94% | -$3.22M | 0.05 | |
| Northern Trust | $159.89M | 0.88 | 5.61M | -5.72% | -$9.71M | 0.03 | |
| AllianceBernstein | $154.1M | 0.85 | 5.41M | +5.41% | +$7.91M | 0.06 | |
| DUFF & PHELPS INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT CO | $146.81M | 0.81 | 5.15M | -4.62% | -$7.12M | 1.76 | |
| BNY Mellon | $122.9M | 0.67 | 4.31M | -4.52% | -$5.81M | 0.02 | |
| Thrivent Financial For Lutherans | $113.68M | 0.62 | 3.99M | -1.3% | -$1.5M | 0.24 | |
| Wellington Management Company | $110.75M | 0.61 | 3.89M | -2.58% | -$2.93M | 0.02 | |
| Goldman Sachs | $108.35M | 0.59 | 3.8M | -23.3% | -$32.92M | 0.02 | |
| Charles Schwab | $105.95M | 0.58 | 3.72M | +2.31% | +$2.4M | 0.02 | |
| CalPERS | $102.47M | 0.56 | 3.6M | -1.86% | -$1.94M | 0.07 | |
| Fidelity Investments | $92.8M | 0.51 | 3.26M | +17.75% | +$13.99M | 0.01 | |
| Reaves W H Co Inc | $92.49M | 0.51 | 3.25M | +40.24% | +$26.54M | 3.28 | |
| Barrow Hanley Global Investors | $90.67M | 0.5 | 3.18M | -0.67% | -$609,116.20 | 0.31 | |
| Millennium Management LLC | $88.36M | 0.49 | 3.1M | +82.17% | +$39.86M | 0.06 | |
| Brookfield Asset Management | $81.02M | 0.45 | 2.84M | -31.65% | -$37.52M | 0.51 | |
| JPMorgan Chase | $78.21M | 0.43 | 2.75M | -8.21% | -$7M | 0.01 | |
| Bank of America | $77.95M | 0.43 | 2.74M | +1.88% | +$1.44M | 0.01 | |
| Ubs Asset Management Americas Inc | $75.15M | 0.41 | 2.64M | -2.92% | -$2.26M | 0.03 | |
| Point72 Asset Management | $74.34M | 0.41 | 2.61M | +524.52% | +$62.44M | 0.14 | |
| Nuveen | $76.7M | 0.41 | 2.61M | -11.82% | -$10.29M | 0.02 | |
| Dimensional Fund Advisors | $68.7M | 0.38 | 2.41M | +3.27% | +$2.18M | 0.02 | |
| Scout Investments | $58.96M | 0.32 | 2.07M | -10.62% | -$7M | 1.49 | |
| TSW (Thompson, Siegel & Walmsley LLC) | $57.09M | 0.31 | 2M | +4.03% | +$2.21M | 0.9 | |
| UBS | $54.9M | 0.3 | 1.93M | +42.34% | +$16.33M | 0.02 | |
| Swiss National Bank | $53.85M | 0.3 | 1.89M | -4.23% | -$2.38M | 0.04 | |
| rare infrastructure | $50.19M | 0.28 | 1.76M | -4.93% | -$2.61M | 1.43 | |
| Barclays | $46.42M | 0.26 | 1.63M | -9.96% | -$5.14M | 0.02 | |
| Cohen & Steers Premium Income Realty Fund Inc | $44.45M | 0.24 | 1.56M | -80.57% | -$184.35M | 0.09 | |
| Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings | $43.64M | 0.24 | 1.53M | +0.67% | +$290,313.10 | 0.03 | |
| Citadel Advisors LLC | $43.36M | 0.24 | 1.52M | -71.58% | -$109.23M | 0.03 | |
| Capital Group Private Client Services Inc | $42.17M | 0.23 | 1.48M | -1.41% | -$602,534.81 | 0.44 | |
| HSBC | $41.66M | 0.23 | 1.46M | +57.62% | +$15.23M | 0.03 | |
| Schonfeld Group | $41.22M | 0.23 | 1.45M | +26.15% | +$8.54M | 0.29 | |
| Canada Pension Plan Investment Board | $40.28M | 0.22 | 1.41M | +86.39% | +$18.67M | 0.04 |