PEG · Utilities(electric & other services combined) · 10 years of annual accounts filed with the SEC · latest fiscal year ended 2025-12-31
Public Service Enterprise Group Inc reported revenue of $12.2 billion in fiscal 2025, after growing 3.5% a year over the previous 9 years. Its operating margin widened from 17.8% in 2016 to 24.5%, and it earned 6.7% on its invested capital in the latest year. Of the $28.4 billion its operations generated over 10 years, 119.4% went back into the business and 36.0% to dividends. On the accounting screens, it passes 6 of 8 Piotroski tests and its Altman Z'' of 1.42 is in the grey zone; none of the six cross-checks between its statements fires.
Revenue, fiscal 202512.2B+3.5% a year over 9 years
Operating margin24.5%gross margin —
Return on invested capital6.7%4.4% on average over 5 years
Free cash flow after stock pay-17.0M-0.1% of revenue
Net debt ÷ EBITDA—net debt 22.4B
Piotroski F-score6/8tests of improvement passed
Is it growing?
Revenue and the operating income it turns into. Growth that does not reach operating income is growth bought with margin.
RevenueOperating income
-5.0B05.0B10.0B15.0B
2016Revenue 9.0BOperating income 1.6B
2017Revenue 9.1BOperating income 1.4B
2018Revenue 9.7BOperating income 2.3B
2019Revenue 10.1BOperating income 1.9B
2020Revenue 9.6BOperating income 2.3B
2021Revenue 9.7BOperating income -856.0M
2022Revenue 9.8BOperating income 1.4B
2023Revenue 11.2BOperating income 3.7B
2024Revenue 10.3BOperating income 2.4B
2025Revenue 12.2BOperating income 3.0B
2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Compound growth a year
3 yrs
5 yrs
9 yrs
Revenue
+7.5%
+4.8%
+3.5%
Operating income
+29.2%
+5.6%
+7.2%
Net income
+27.0%
+2.1%
+10.1%
Earnings per share
+27.0%
+2.3%
+10.3%
Free cash flow per share
—
-31.9%
—
Dividend per share
+5.2%
+5.1%
+4.9%
Shares
+0.0%
-0.2%
-0.2%
Falling shares are buybacks: each remaining share owns more of the company.
Does it earn more than its capital costs?
Margins say how much of each sale is kept; return on invested capital says how much the business earns on the money it needs to operate. Growth only creates value when that return is above the cost of the capital.
Needs a cost of capital, which comes from the valuation below.
Return on equity
12.4%
Return on assets
3.7%
Asset turnover
0.21×
Is the profit cash, and where does the cash go?
Net income is an accounting opinion; free cash flow is what was left in the bank after investing. Stock-based pay does not leave the bank — shareholders pay it through dilution — so it is shown taken off as well.
Net incomeFree cash flowAfter stock-based pay
-2.0B-1.0B01.0B2.0B3.0B
2016Net income 887.0MFree cash flow -886.0MAfter stock-based pay -887.0M
2017Net income 1.6BFree cash flow -930.0MAfter stock-based pay -961.0M
2018Net income 1.4BFree cash flow -999.0MAfter stock-based pay -1.0B
2019Net income 1.7BFree cash flow 213.0MAfter stock-based pay 180.0M
2020Net income 1.9BFree cash flow 179.0MAfter stock-based pay 144.0M
2021Net income -648.0MFree cash flow -983.0MAfter stock-based pay -1.0B
2022Net income 1.0BFree cash flow -1.4BAfter stock-based pay -1.4B
2023Net income 2.6BFree cash flow 481.0MAfter stock-based pay 463.0M
2024Net income 1.8BFree cash flow -1.2BAfter stock-based pay -1.3B
2025Net income 2.1BFree cash flow 26.0MAfter stock-based pay -17.0M
2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Where 10 years of operating cash went, 2016–2025
28.4B generated by the business. Each band is its share of that total.
Reinvested in the business 119%34.0B
Acquisitions 0%0
Dividends 36%10.3B
Share buybacks 2%500.0M
More than it generated: funded with cash or new debt -57%-16.3B
Over the same years it paid 288.0M in stock. The share count fell 1.4%. 212.0M of the buybacks went beyond offsetting that dilution.
Per share
Earnings per shareFree cash flow per shareDividend per share
$-4.00$-2.00$0.00$2.00$4.00$6.00
2016Earnings per share $1.75Free cash flow per share $-1.74Dividend per share $1.63
2017Earnings per share $3.10Free cash flow per share $-1.83Dividend per share $1.72
2018Earnings per share $2.84Free cash flow per share $-1.97Dividend per share $1.79
2019Earnings per share $3.34Free cash flow per share $0.42Dividend per share $1.87
2020Earnings per share $3.76Free cash flow per share $0.35Dividend per share $1.95
2021Earnings per share $-1.29Free cash flow per share $-1.95Dividend per share $2.05
2022Earnings per share $2.06Free cash flow per share $-2.76Dividend per share $2.15
2023Earnings per share $5.13Free cash flow per share $0.96Dividend per share $2.27
2024Earnings per share $3.54Free cash flow per share $-2.49Dividend per share $2.39
2025Earnings per share $4.21Free cash flow per share $0.05Dividend per share $2.51
2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Shares outstanding
Diluted shares
500.0M502.0M504.0M506.0M508.0M
2016Diluted shares 508.0M
2017Diluted shares 507.0M
2018Diluted shares 507.0M
2019Diluted shares 507.0M
2020Diluted shares 507.0M
2021Diluted shares 504.0M
2022Diluted shares 501.0M
2023Diluted shares 500.0M
2024Diluted shares 500.0M
2025Diluted shares 501.0M
2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
How strong is the balance sheet?
Debt is not bad in itself; debt the business cannot service in a bad year is. Net debt is debt minus cash, and below zero the company holds more cash than it owes.
Net debt
010.0B20.0B30.0B
2016Net debt 11.0B
2017Net debt 12.8B
2018Net debt 14.3B
2019Net debt 15.0B
2020Net debt 15.6B
2021Net debt 15.1B
2022Net debt 17.6B
2023Net debt 19.2B
2024Net debt 21.0B
2025Net debt 22.4B
2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Net debt ÷ EBITDA
—
Interest coverage
3× operating income ÷ interest
Current ratio
0.80 current assets ÷ current liabilities
Cash conversion cycle
— collects in 57d
Three classic screens of the accounts
Each asks a different question of the same statements — is it improving, does it look like a company heading for distress, do the accounts resemble ones that were manipulated. None is a verdict; each shows what moves it.
Piotroski F-score
Is the business improving? Nine yes-or-no tests, this year against last.
6of 8 tests passed
✓ProfitableReturn on assets above zeropassed
✓Cash from operationsOperating cash flow above zeropassed
✓Profitability improvedReturn on assets higher than a year beforepassed
✓Profit backed by cashOperating cash flow above net income (low accruals)passed
✕Less long-term debtLong-term debt as a share of assets fellfailed
✓More liquidCurrent ratio higher than a year beforepassed
✕No new sharesShare count did not growfailed
–Better gross marginGross margin higher than a year before — not reportedno data
✓Sells more per assetAsset turnover higher than a year beforepassed
Where it misleads: it measures change, not level. An excellent business that stood still for a year scores low; a poor one recovering from a disaster scores high.
Altman Z''-score
Does the balance sheet look like those of companies that went bankrupt?
1.42grey zone
1.12.6
Working capital ÷ assets -0.02 × 6.56-0.13
Retained earnings ÷ assets 0.23 × 3.26+0.76
Operating income ÷ assets 0.05 × 6.72+0.35
Equity ÷ liabilities 0.42 × 1.05+0.44
Where it misleads: buybacks. A company that returns so much cash that its equity turns small or negative sinks the last two ratios without being anywhere near bankruptcy. Banks and insurers do not fit the model at all.
Beneish M-score
Do the accounts resemble those of companies that manipulated their earnings?
The accounts lack too many of the lines it needs.
Where the statements disagree
Cross-checks between the income statement, the balance sheet and the cash flow for the latest year, each with the benign reading and the worrying one.
None of the six cross-checks fires for the latest year: receivables and inventory move with revenue, profit turns into cash, investment keeps up with depreciation, the tax rate is ordinary and debt is moderate.
What is it worth, under which assumptions?
A company is worth the cash it will generate, brought back to today. This model projects revenue with growth that fades over the years, applies a free cash flow margin, and discounts the result at the cost of capital. Every assumption says where it came from, and all of them can be changed.
The SEC accounts lack the lines needed for revenue, free cash flow or the share count, so there is no DCF for this company.
What it has filed lately
The last twelve months at the SEC, most important first: annual and quarterly reports, events, large holders and insiders.
Accounts from the company's own SEC filings; lines some companies do not report are shown as a dash rather than estimated. The risk-free rate is the 10-year US Treasury yield. A DCF is a way of making assumptions explicit, not a forecast: it states what the company would be worth if the assumptions held. The scores are screens that point where to look, not verdicts. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell.