---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-226962"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CNP"
cik: "0001130310"
company_name: "CENTERPOINT ENERGY INC"
filed_at: "2025-10-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T05:02:43.506979+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CenterPoint Energy issues $700M junior subordinated notes at 5.950%, due 2056

## Summary
- Aggregate principal amount $700M; interest rate 5.950% for first 5.5 years then resets every 5 years.
- Reset rate = Five-Year Treasury Rate + 2.223%, subject to floor of 5.950% per annum.
- Matures April 1, 2056; interest payable semi-annually starting April 1, 2026.
- Optional interest deferral of up to 20 consecutive semi-annual periods with dividend and payment restrictions.
- Notes are unsecured and rank junior to all senior indebtedness of CenterPoint.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-226962
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CNP
- cik: 0001130310
- company_name: CENTERPOINT ENERGY INC
- filed_at: 2025-10-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1130310/000119312525226962/0001193125-25-226962-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1130310/000119312525226962/d940526d8k.htm

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