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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Utilities · CIK 0000731802
$173.91
+4.17% · live
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$28.10B market value
From ATMOS ENERGY CORP's FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 14, 2025 · read the filing
ATMOS ENERGY supplies electricity, gas or water. It took in $4.70B last year, which makes it a mid-sized company. Of every dollar it sells, about 25 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is mixed, with profitability, growth and debt needing attention.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Financial health
A mixed picture — some clear strengths and some weaknesses.
From ATMOS ENERGY CORP's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Operating income
$1.36B → $1.56B
Free cash flow
-$1.20B → -$1.51B
Cash
$307.3M → $202.7M
Capital spending
$2.94B → $3.56B
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Nov 14, 2025
Improved: +15.1%
$1.36B to $1.56BSignificant
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
How the latest move compares (quote live), and what was published around it
ATO rose 4.17% on the latest quote. The average Utilities company tracked here moved +1.66%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 2.5 points above its sector and 5.2 points above the market.
These coincide with the move in time. None is presented as its cause: a price can move on news that names no company, on the wider market, or on trading that no document records.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Opinions from 18 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 18 analysts publishing on this company, 2 say strong buy, 4 say buy and 12 say hold. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 25 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $1.20B last year. Note that after $3.56B of spending on property and equipment, it consumed $1.51B more cash than it generated.
Slowly. Sales grew 12.9% last year.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 46 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 27% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
GoodNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $1.20B and generated $2.05B of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Nov 14, 2025Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Nov 18, 2024Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Nov 14, 2023Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Nov 14, 2022Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Nov 14, 2022Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $4.70B | $4.17B | $4.28B | $4.20B | $3.41B | +12.9% |
| Cost of revenue | — | — | $1.45B | $1.68B | $1.03B | — |
| Gross profit | — | — | $2.82B† | $2.52B† | $2.37B† | — |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | — | — | 66.0% | 60.0% | 69.7% | — |
| Operating income | $1.56B | $1.36B | $1.07B | $921.0M | $905.0M | +15.1% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 33.2% | 32.5% | 25.0% | 21.9% | 26.6% | +0.6 pts |
| Interest expense | $171.7M | $190.6M | $137.3M | $102.8M | $83.6M | −9.9% |
| Income before tax | $1.48B | $1.24B | $999.6M | $851.9M | $819.3M | +19.6% |
| Net income | $1.20B | $1.04B | $885.9M | $774.4M | $665.6M | +14.9% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 25.5% | 25.0% | 20.7% | 18.4% | 19.5% | +0.5 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $7.42 | $6.72 | $5.97 | $5.50 | $5.03 | +10.5% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
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Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Was granted or awarded shares — 77 shares at $155.79 ($12.0K)
Holds 334 shares after this filing.
Gifted shares — 1,500 shares
Holds 25,866 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Signed a material agreement
Read the filingReported another event
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 16 subsidiaries named in its 10-K, incorporated across 5 places. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from ATO's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-09-30, filed Nov 14, 2025), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing. Total liabilities were not tagged directly and were calculated as assets minus equity.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 8 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 6.0 | 5/8 | 10-K, filed Nov 14, 2025 |
| FY2024 | 4.7 | 5/8 | 10-K, filed Nov 18, 2024 |
| FY2023 | 8.7 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Nov 14, 2023 |
| FY2022 | 6.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Nov 14, 2022 |
| FY2021 | 6.0 | 4/9 | 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2021 |
| FY2020 | 4.7 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2020 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
5 of 8 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. One could not be evaluated and is excluded from the total rather than counted as a failure.
1.83
In the grey zone
For this model, above 2.6 is safe and below 1.1 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Deteriorated: $308.6M wider
-$1.20B to -$1.51BSignificant
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Deteriorated: -34.1%
$307.3M to $202.7MSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Changed: +21.3%
$2.94B to $3.56BSignificant
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Improved: +12.9%
$4.17B to $4.70BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +14.9%
$1.04B to $1.20BNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +10.5%
$6.72 to $7.42Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: +14.4%
$7.78B to $8.91BNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Deteriorated: +4.1%
155.3M to 161.6MNotable
Why it matters: New shares divide the same company into more pieces, so each existing holding owns slightly less of it. Often pay for staff or an acquisition rather than anything wrong.
Changed: +12.3%
$492.9M to $553.8MNotable
Why it matters: Cash handed to shareholders. A rise can be a higher dividend or simply more shares, and a cut is a decision the company explains in its own filing — neither is rated here.
Q3 FY2026 against Q3 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Aug 5, 2026 — read it.
Improved: +27.1%
$252.1M to $320.4MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +30.2%
$186.4M to $242.7MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +6.4 pts
30.1% to 36.4%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: +5.4 pts
22.2% to 27.6%Significant
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +23.7%
$1.16 to $1.44Significant
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: -26.6%
$709.4M to $521.0MSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Deteriorated: +5.3%
160.5M to 169.0MSignificant
Why it matters: New shares divide the same company into more pieces, so each existing holding owns slightly less of it. Often pay for staff or an acquisition rather than anything wrong.
Deteriorated: +9.4%
$8.91B to $9.75BNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Q3 FY2026 against Q2 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Aug 5, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Deteriorated: -55.2%
$1.96B to $879.1MCritical
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Deteriorated: -58.1%
$764.8M to $320.4MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: -58.3%
$581.9M to $242.7MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: -58.8%
$3.49 to $1.44Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +314.5%
$125.7M to $521.0MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Deteriorated: −2.5 pts
39.0% to 36.4%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: −2.0 pts
29.7% to 27.6%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Deteriorated: +1.2%
166.9M to 169.0MNotable
Why it matters: New shares divide the same company into more pieces, so each existing holding owns slightly less of it. Often pay for staff or an acquisition rather than anything wrong.
2 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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About 2.8% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
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Manageable, but notable. Clearing its debt would take about 4.3 years of cash flow. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.92 in assets.
The trailing P/E is 19.9x — investors pay $19.9 for each $1 of trailing profit.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Bought on the open market — 300 shares at $167.59 ($50.3K)
Holds 488 shares after this filing.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Had a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Quarterly report for Q3 FY2026
Operating margin +6.4 pts · Operating income +27.1% · Profit +30.2% — against Q3 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingSigned a material agreement
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Operating margin +6.7 pts · Cash -76.9% · Operating income +21.6% — against Q2 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingAmended its charter or changed its financial year · Held a shareholder vote
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Revenue +14.2% · Free cash flow $116.1M wider · Cash -37.2% — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Revenue +12.9% · Operating income +15.1% · Free cash flow $308.6M wider — against FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingSigned a material agreement
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Revenue +19.6% · Operating margin −1.4 pts · Capital spending +21.5% — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingSource: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2025-11-14. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
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