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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001130310-24-000047"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CNP"
cik: "0001130310"
company_name: "CENTERPOINT ENERGY INC"
filed_at: "2024-03-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-05T00:23:26.711387+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CEI South subsidiary reports net income $80M in 2023, down 27% YoY; debt rises on securitization bonds

## Summary
- Net income $80M vs $109M in 2022; operating income $125M vs $153M.
- Revenues $740M, down 12% from $842M; electric revenues $595M vs $696M.
- Issued $341M in VIE Securitization Bonds for retirement of A.B. Brown coal generation facilities.
- Capital expenditures $495M in 2023, up from $363M in 2022.
- Long-term debt increased to $1.397B from $1.032B; dividends to parent VUH $93M.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001130310-24-000047
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CNP
- cik: 0001130310
- company_name: CENTERPOINT ENERGY INC
- filed_at: 2024-03-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1130310/000113031024000047/0001130310-24-000047-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1130310/000113031024000047/cnp-20240308.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001130310-24-000047.txt

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