CenterPoint (CNP) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

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Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026 astatine 8 a.m. ET

• Chair and Chief Executive Officer — Jason P. Wells

• Chief Financial Officer — Christopher A. Foster

• Vice President, Investor Relations — Ben Vallejo

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Operator: Good morning, and invited to CenterPoint Energy, Inc.'s 4th fourth and afloat twelvemonth 2025 net league telephone with elder management. During the company's prepared remarks, each participants volition beryllium successful a listen-only mode. There volition beryllium a question and reply league aft management's remarks. To inquire a question, property 11 connected your touch-tone keypad. I volition present crook the telephone implicit to Ben Vallejo, Vice President of Investor Relations. Mr. Vallejo, bully morning, and invited to CenterPoint Energy, Inc.'s Q4 2025 net league call.

Ben Vallejo: Jason Wells, our Chair and CEO, and Christopher A. Foster, our CFO, volition sermon the company's 4th fourth and afloat twelvemonth 2025 results. Management volition sermon definite topics that volition incorporate projections and different forward-looking accusation and statements that are based connected management's beliefs, assumptions, and accusation presently disposable to management. These forward-looking statements are taxable to risks and uncertainties. Actual results could disagree materially based connected assorted factors arsenic noted successful our Form 10-K, different SEC filings, and our net materials.

Operator: We undertake nary work to revise oregon update publicly

Ben Vallejo: immoderate forward-looking connection different than arsenic required nether applicable securities laws. We reported $1.60 per diluted stock and $0.40 per diluted stock for the afloat twelvemonth and 2025, respectively, connected a GAAP basis. Management volition beryllium discussing definite non-GAAP measures connected today's call. When providing guidance, we usage the non-GAAP EPS measurement of diluted adjusted net per stock connected a consolidated ground referred to arsenic non-GAAP EPS. Non-GAAP measures utilized successful providing guidance. For accusation connected our guidance methodology and reconciliation of these measures, delight notation to our net quality merchandise and presumption connected our website. We usage our website to denote worldly information. This telephone is being recorded.

Information connected however to entree the replay tin beryllium recovered connected our website. I would similar to crook it implicit to Jason. Thank you, Ben, and bully morning, everyone.

Jason P. Wells: I would similar to statesman by extending my sincere appreciation to each frontline squad members who proceed to enactment tirelessly to present amended outcomes for our customers. Whether it is responding to terrible upwind similar we experienced successful January, oregon executing connected the reliability and resiliency enactment that resulted successful a simplification of much than $100,000,000 outage minutes crossed the Greater Houston portion past year, our dedicated workforce executes for our customers and communities each and each day. On today's call, I would similar to code 3 cardinal areas of