Utilities
Live Price
Offline$5.64
+0.00% today
1Y Change
+10.37%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 16, 2026
Coverage: 245 bars · Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 16, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Contact Energy Limited (COENF) is a Utilities stock with a market cap of $9.79B. The stock last traded around $5.64 and up 10.4% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 16, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +20.1%, EPS growth of +40.0%, a dividend yield of 4.0%. What stands out right now is revenue +20.1%, EPS +40.0%, free cash flow +28.4% with operating margin 22.9% and ROIC 5.9%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 4.0%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 24.5 and price/sales 3.0. Stock Foundry combines COENF 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.
COENF
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
COENF Max Drawdown
-11.32%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for COENF and SPY.
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$2.6B
+8.0% YoY
FY Net Income
$187.0M
+2.7% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$295.0M
+883.3% YoY
Revenue Growth
+20.1%
EPS Growth
+40.0%
Gross Margin
33.1%
Net Margin
11.9%
Income statement
NZD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 3.4B | 2.8B | 2.1B | 2.4B | 2.6B |
| Gross Profit | 1.4B | 1.0B | 363M | 360M | 389M |
| Operating Income | 709M | 403M | 273M | 270M | 289M |
| EBITDA | 833M | 679M | 445M | 550M | 556M |
| Net Income | 331M | 235M | 127M | 182M | 187M |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
NZD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 514M | 229M | 140M | 168M | 150M |
| Total Assets | 6.8B | 6.2B | 5.8B | 5.2B | 5.0B |
| Total Liabilities | 4.1B | 3.6B | 3.0B | 2.3B | 2.1B |
| Shareholder Equity | 2.8B | 2.6B | 2.8B | 2.8B | 2.9B |
| Total Debt | 2.4B | 1.9B | 1.6B | 1.1B | 856M |
| Net Debt | 1.9B | 1.7B | 1.4B | 931M | 706M |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
424M
+12.5% YoY
Capital Expenditures
129M
+62.8% YoY
Free Cash Flow
295M
+883.3% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
33.1%
Operating Margin
22.9%
Net Margin
11.9%
ROE
10.9%
Debt / Equity
0.71x
Next Step
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