Utilities
Live Price
Offline$78.81
+2.22% today
1Y Change
+6.23%
Window
Jun 27, 2025 → Jun 17, 2026
Coverage: 244 bars · Jun 27, 2025 → Jun 17, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
CMS Energy Corp (CMS) is a Utilities stock with a market cap of $23.15B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $78.81 and up 6.2% across the available one-year price window (Jun 27, 2025 → Jun 17, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +13.6%, EPS growth of +5.7%, a dividend yield of 2.9%. What stands out right now is revenue +13.6%, EPS +5.7%, free cash flow -145.2% with operating margin 19.5% and ROIC 3.6%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 2.9%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 20.3 and price/sales 2.6. Stock Foundry combines CMS price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Utilities peers on this page.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
CMS
—
Normalized return
SPY
--
S&P 500
Excess Return
--
Relative to SPY
CMS Max Drawdown
-12.16%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
—
Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for CMS and SPY.
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$7.3B
-14.7% YoY
FY Net Income
$1.4B
+61.6% YoY
Free Cash Flow
-$257.0M
+83.1% YoY
Revenue Growth
+13.6%
EPS Growth
+5.7%
Gross Margin
64.6%
Net Margin
12.5%
Income statement
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 8.5B | 7.5B | 7.5B | 8.6B | 7.3B |
| Gross Profit | 5.2B | 3.2B | 2.9B | 2.8B | 2.6B |
| Operating Income | 1.7B | 1.5B | 1.2B | 1.2B | 1.1B |
| EBITDA | 3.2B | 3.1B | 2.8B | 2.5B | 2.4B |
| Net Income | 1.1B | 1.0B | 887M | 837M | 1.4B |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 615M | 103M | 227M | 164M | 452M |
| Total Assets | 40.4B | 35.9B | 33.5B | 31.4B | 28.8B |
| Total Liabilities | 30.7B | 27.2B | 25.4B | 23.8B | 21.6B |
| Shareholder Equity | 9.1B | 8.2B | 7.5B | 7.0B | 6.6B |
| Total Debt | 18.9B | 16.6B | 15.7B | 14.3B | 12.5B |
| Net Debt | 18.3B | 16.5B | 15.4B | 14.2B | 12.1B |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
1.8B
+112.7% YoY
Capital Expenditures
2.1B
+12.6% YoY
Free Cash Flow
257M
+83.1% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
64.6%
Operating Margin
19.5%
Net Margin
12.5%
ROE
12.3%
Debt / Equity
2.02x
Next Step
Use the numbers to decide whether this is a growth candidate, a quality compounder, or just an interesting outlier.