CMS Energy Corp
CMS Energy Corp (CMS) is listed on NYSE and classified in Utilities - Regulated Electric, part of the Utilities sector. It is headquartered in Jackson, United States and has 8,350 employees. The company is worth $22.04B and trades at 20.4x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 20.5x. Revenue was $8.54B in fiscal 2025, up 13.6% from the year before. Net income was $1.07B. The share price is 12.5% below its 52-week high of $80.36. It pays a dividend yielding 3.24%, and has raised its annual dividend for 18 years in a row in our records. 5 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $142.14M. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position and 3 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +16.7% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,329.50▲ +33.0%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 18 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $69.93 | $66.65 | $58.07 | $63.33 | $65.05 | $61.01 | $62.84 | $49.65 | $47.30 | $41.62 | $36.08 | $34.75 | $26.77 | $24.38 | $22.08 | $18.60 | $15.66 | $10.11 |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 6.0% a year plus a 3.2% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 20.5 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 19.6 across this company’s own years on record.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Sector median of 13.3x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividend growing 2.3% a year against a 7.0% required return, from the stock’s beta.
Companies of similar size in Utilities, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SBSCompanhia de Saneamento Basico Do Estado de Sao Paulo-sabesp | $6.27 | 14.3x | 2.5x | 0.48% | 18.79% | $22.05B |
| EIXEdison International | $57.90 | 6.0x | 1.3x | 6.06% | 19.73% | $22.28B |
| NINisource Inc | $43.69 | 23.2x | 2.2x | 2.75% | 8.55% | $20.95B |
| NRGNRG Energy Inc | $94.38 |
| P/E | 19.6x | 19.8x | 20.0x | 19.3x | 22.2x | 14.0x | 23.1x | 26.3x | 21.4x | 28.8x | 21.0x | 19.1x | 20.0x | 16.1x | 17.2x | 14.0x | 14.5x | 17.2x | 8.4x |
| P/S | 2.0x | 2.5x | 2.6x | 2.3x | 2.1x | 2.6x | 2.7x | 2.7x | 2.0x | 2.0x | 1.8x | 1.5x | 1.3x | 1.1x | 1.0x | 0.9x | 0.7x | 0.6x | — |
| P/B | 2.5x | 2.3x | 2.4x | 2.3x | 2.6x | 2.8x | 3.2x | 3.6x | 3.0x | 3.0x | 2.7x | 2.5x | 2.6x | 2.1x | 2.0x | 1.9x | 1.7x | 1.4x | — |
| EPS | $3.53 | $3.33 | $3.01 | $2.85 | $4.66 | $2.64 | $2.39 | $2.32 | $1.64 | $1.98 | $1.89 | $1.74 | $1.66 | $1.42 | $1.58 | $1.28 | $0.91 | $1.20 |
| Dividend yield | 3.11% | 3.11% | 3.09% | 3.36% | 2.91% | 2.67% | 2.67% | 2.44% | 2.88% | 2.82% | 2.98% | 3.22% | 3.11% | 3.81% | 3.94% | 3.80% | 3.55% | 3.19% | 3.56% |
| Payout | 61.77% | 61.53% | 61.86% | 64.85% | 64.56% | 37.34% | 61.82% | 64.10% | 61.72% | 81.22% | 62.63% | 61.38% | 62.07% | 61.45% | 67.61% | 53.16% | 51.56% | 54.95% | 30.00% |
| Profit margin | 8.36% | 12.54% | 13.35% | 11.89% | 9.74% | 18.46% | 11.76% | 10.27% | 9.56% | 6.99% | 8.61% | 8.10% | 6.64% | 6.88% | 6.11% | 6.38% | 5.29% | 3.69% | 4.33% |
| ROE | 12.57% | 11.71% | 12.19% | 11.76% | 11.93% | 20.40% | 13.74% | 13.55% | 13.82% | 10.36% | 12.96% | 13.28% | 13.00% | 13.09% | 11.96% | 13.71% | 12.17% | 8.80% | 10.48% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-17.5% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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| 23.77% |
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