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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Utilities · CIK 0000811156
$70.30
+3.19% · live
Updated
$21.54B market value
From CMS ENERGY CORP's FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 10, 2026 · read the filing
CMS ENERGY supplies electricity, gas or water. It took in $8.30B last year, which makes it a mid-sized company. Of every dollar it sells, about 13 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by profitability, with growth worth watching, while debt remain weak.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
A published bankruptcy-risk model places it in its distress range. This is a statistical reading, not a forecast.
Altman Z-Score 0.79
These are things the company filed or that a published model flagged — not predictions, and not a reason on their own to buy or sell anything.
Financial health
A mixed picture — some clear strengths and some weaknesses.
From CMS ENERGY CORP's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Cash
$103.0M → $509.0M
Operating income
$1.49B → $1.73B
Long-term debt
$15.19B → $17.81B
Revenue
$7.32B → $8.30B
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 10, 2026
Improved: +394.2%
$103.0M to $509.0MCritical
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.
Improved: +16.1%
$1.49B to $1.73BSignificant
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.
+17.2%
How the latest move compares (quote live), and what was published around it
CMS rose 3.19% on the latest quote. The average Utilities company tracked here moved +1.69%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 1.5 points above its sector and 4.2 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Opinions from 20 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 20 analysts publishing on this company, 3 say strong buy, 9 say buy and 8 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 13 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $1.07B last year.
Slowly. Sales grew 13.5% last year.
Yes. Clearing its debt would take roughly 8.2 years of cash flow. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.30 in assets. A bankruptcy-risk model also places it in its distress range.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Income
This company pays no dividend. It keeps its profits and reinvests them in the business instead, so any return would have to come from the share price.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $1.07B and generated $2.23B 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 · Feb 10, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 11, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 8, 2024Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 9, 2023Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 10, 2022Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $8.30B | $7.32B | $7.26B | $8.32B | $7.08B | +13.5% |
| Operating income | $1.73B | $1.49B | $1.24B | $1.22B | $1.15B | +16.1% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 20.8% | 20.3% | 17.0% | 14.7% | 16.2% | +0.5 pts |
| Interest expense | $798.0M | $700.0M | $643.0M | $519.0M | $500.0M | +14.0% |
| Income before tax | $1.25B | $1.12B | $954.0M | $902.0M | $823.0M | +11.1% |
| Net income | $1.07B | $1.00B | $887.0M | $837.0M | $1.35B | +6.8% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 12.9% | 13.7% | 12.2% | 10.1% | 19.1% | −0.8 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $3.50 | $3.36 | $3.01 | $2.87 | $4.67 | +4.1% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CMSCMS ENERGY CORP · this page | 6.0/10 | 6/8 |
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Bought on the open market — 200 shares at $72.45 ($14.5K)
Holds 34,895 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.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Quarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Operating margin −3.0 pts · Profit -40.3% · Earnings per share -43.0% — against Q2 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 142 subsidiaries named in its 10-K, incorporated across 7 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 CMS's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 10, 2026), 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 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 10, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 6.0 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 4.7 | 5/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 8, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 6.0 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 9, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 4.7 | 7/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 10, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 3.3 | 5/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2021 |
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
6 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.
0.79
In the distress 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.
$15.19B to $17.81BSignificant
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.
Improved: +13.5%
$7.32B to $8.30BNotable
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: +6.8%
$1.00B to $1.07BNotable
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: +2.5%
298.8M to 306.4MNotable
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.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Jul 28, 2026 — read it.
Deteriorated: -40.3%
$201.0M to $120.0MCritical
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: -43.0%
$0.67 to $0.38Critical
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: -71.4%
$844.0M to $241.0MCritical
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: -16.7%
$317.0M to $264.0MSignificant
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: −3.0 pts
17.6% to 14.6%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.
Deteriorated: −4.5 pts
11.2% to 6.6%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.
Deteriorated: +8.3%
$16.78B to $18.17BNotable
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: +4.8%
299.3M to 313.6MNotable
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.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Jul 28, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Deteriorated: -46.1%
$490.0M to $264.0MCritical
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: -64.7%
$340.0M to $120.0MCritical
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: -65.2%
$1.10 to $0.38Critical
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: -32.4%
$2.67B to $1.81BSignificant
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: −3.7 pts
18.3% to 14.6%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.
Deteriorated: −6.1 pts
12.7% to 6.6%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: +37.7%
$175.0M to $241.0MSignificant
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: +1.5%
308.9M to 313.6MNotable
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.
3 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 5.7% 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.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
The trailing P/E is 23.0x — investors pay $23.0 for each $1 of trailing profit.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
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Had a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Reported another event
Read the filingAmended its charter or changed its financial year · Held a shareholder vote
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Revenue +11.6% · Operating margin −2.3 pts · Free cash flow turned negative — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Revenue +13.5% · Cash +394.2% · Operating income +16.1% — against FY2024
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Terminated a material agreement · Reported another event
Read the filingTook on a direct financial obligation · Sold shares outside a public offering
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Revenue +15.4% · Operating margin +2.9 pts · Operating income +31.1% — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2025
Revenue +14.1% · Profit margin −1.4 pts · Cash +20.7% — against Q2 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingThe first 40 of 142. The rest are in the exhibit.
Source: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-02-10. 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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