CNP CenterPoint Energy, Inc.
CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (CNP) trend channel, buy level and 3-month target on Trade The Path. Sector: Utilities. Listed on NYSE. Levels below are fitted to this ticker's own swing highs and lows (TheilβSen, log-price), then projected 3 months. If this ticker has no settled sample yet, treat the numbers as a geometric read, not a track record. Information only, not financial advice.
Broken down below, rising on both timeframes
Price has closed below the channel. Support has failed β treat the buy target with caution.
The next few months are read from the last 12 months, not the last 9 months: that channel fits this stock's recent turns at least as well (73% against 82%) and it is the one price is respecting now. The last 9 months stay as context: rising, +6% a year. The target of US$42.68 is below the nearest ceiling (US$45.47), so it does not depend on a breakout. What would overturn this: a close below US$43.60 β the floor of the channel being read β after which the trend, not the entry, is what was wrong.
- 9 months
- US$37.88 β US$45.47 Rising channel, +6% a year
- 12 months read from
- US$43.60 β US$45.89 Rising channel, +14% a year
- Position in that channel
- -231% below the floor of it β 0% is the floor, 100% the ceiling
Price history, with the path projected 3 months forward
- Daily close
- Upper trend line (9 months)
- Lower trend line (9 months)
- The same lines over the last 12 months
- Dashed after today: projected 3 months
- Our buy
- Our target
Suggested path
Buy now
US$38.32
last close Β· 16 Sept 2026
Channel buy is US$40.27; last close is the better price available now.
Our target
US$42.68
by 11 Oct 2026
Projected move
11.4%
gross, before costs
Last close is our buy β the best price available now.
The lines are drawn where this stock has actually turned: 5 touches on the ceiling, 4 on the floor, each fitted to the slope that catches the most of them. Buying one average daily range below its 50-day mean, on heavier volume than usual and while it is still above its 200-day mean, has come up 791 times; measured against the 6% floor β the least a call has to be worth to be worth making, not what it aims at β 73% cleared it, typically in 34 days, with price going about 5% against the entry along the way (63% in the worst case we have on record). Trades that have not reached the target within 3 months are counted as misses, whatever they are worth at the time. The prices above are this stockβs own β its average, its volatility β but the setup is the same one we apply everywhere: derived on eight unrelated tickers, then confirmed on 87 others it was never fitted to. We deliberately do not tune it to each stock: doing so scores worse on history the tuning never saw β 58% against 71% β because it fits the past rather than the future. On this stock the setup has come up 8 times so far, reaching target 75% of the time β too few to mean much on its own. The sell price comes from where this stock is projected to be, not from a minimum worth taking: the fitted path reaches 14% above the entry within 90 days, and of the sizes that path supports, 6% is the one that has returned the most per day of money tied up here β measured over 145 stretches of this stockβs own history, since the published entry itself is too rare here to size a target from, reached 77% of the time, typically in 25 days. Smaller sizes got there sooner but paid less for the weeks they used; larger ones need a break above the projected ceiling, which is not the base case. The date published is whichever is later: that typical time, or the day the projected path itself reaches the price. It is a prediction, so it can be revised: if the run tops out before it gets there, the target is cut to what is actually on the table and you are told the same day. An ordinary pullback is not treated as topping out β those go on to make a new high about 8 times in 10, so they are ridden through. What triggers the revision is price closing below its 50-day trend and staying there, after which the odds of recovery fall to roughly 3 in 10.
- Upper line touches
- 5
- Lower line touches
- 4
- Fit confidence
- 82%
- Fitted
- 16 Sept 2026
About CenterPoint Energy, Inc.
CenterPoint Energy, Inc. operates as a public utility holding enterprise across the United States, primarily through its Electric and Natural Gas divisions. The Electric segment manages power generation assets, alongside the transmission and distribution networks that supply electricity to consumers, and actively participates in the wholesale power market. Its Natural Gas segment delivers natural gas distribution services, provides home appliance maintenance and repair in Minnesota, and extends home repair protection plans to natural gas customers in Arkansas, Indiana, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana through a third-party partner. This segment is also engaged in the sale of regulated intrastate natural gas, as well as its transportation and storage for residential, commercial, industrial, and transportation clients. As of December 31, 2021, CenterPoint Energy served approximately 2.7 million metered customers. Its substantial infrastructure included 239 substation sites with a total installed transformer capacity of 71,241 megavolt amperes, roughly 100,000 linear miles of natural gas distribution and transmission mains, and 285 miles of intrastate pipelines across Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma. The company was established in 1866 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
- Sector
- Utilities
- Industry
- Regulated Electric
- CEO
- Jason Wells
- Employees
- 8,794
- Country
- US
Scorecard
Our own pillar scores, computed from the fundamentals below. They are not Morningstar ratings β that data is licensed and we do not redistribute it.
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Key statistics
- Market cap
- US$26.13B
- Enterprise value
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- Beta
- 0.46
- Avg volume
- 6.08M
- Revenue per share
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- Dividend yield
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- 52-week range
- 37.13-45.26
- Exchange
- NYSE
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Trend lines are fitted statistically to past swing highs and lows and projected forward on the assumption the same rhythm continues. It often does not. This is information, not advice.