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Updated: Aug 17, 2026
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Central Puerto

NYSE:CEPU·Stock Analysis Report
Day Range
$12.82 - $13.15
Market Cap
1.98B
P/E Ratio
6.0059
Avg Value
$12.97
Year Range
$7.43 - $18.50
$12.90$0.13 (1.02%)
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General Information
Central Puerto SA is a power generation company. It is mainly engaged in electric power generation and commercialization.

The company is also involved in the natural gas distribution public sector service in the Cuyo and Centro regions in Argentina. The Group has four reporting segments which includes electric power generation from conventional sources, electric power generation from renewable sources, natural gas transport and distribution, and forest activity. The company derives maximum revenue from Electric Power Generation from conventional sources segment.

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Central Puerto (CEPU) Stock Graph
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How We Grade Central Puerto (CEPU)

We grade stocks based on past performance, their future growth potential, intrinsic value, dividend history, and overall financial health.

The chart below shows how we grade Central Puerto (CEPU) across the board compared to its closest peers.

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Benzinga Edge Rankings

Benzinga Edge stock rankings give you four critical scores to help you identify the strongest and weakest stocks to buy and sell.

94.47

Growth measures a stock's combined historical expansion in earnings and revenue across multiple time periods, with emphasis on both long-term trends and recent performance.

98.5

Value is a percentile-ranked composite metric that evaluates a stock's relative worth by comparing its market price to fundamental measures of the company's assets, earnings, sales, and operating performance.

Momentum measures a stock's relative strength based on its price movement patterns and volatility over multiple timeframes, ranked as a percentile against other stocks.

99.16

Quality is a composite ranking that evaluates a company's operational efficiency and financial health by analyzing historical profitability metrics and fundamental strength indicators on a percentile basis relative to peers.

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Peer Ratings

See how Central Puerto compares to its peers in these key performance metrics from Benzinga Rankings.

Top Peers
Value
Quality
Growth
Momentum
Short
Medium
Long
HNRGHallador Energy
62.33
N/A
N/A
15.4
FISNDeep Fission
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
KENKenon Holdings
68.04
78.46
53.91
29.02
TACTransAlta
4.81
N/A
N/A
22.89
Short: price trend over the last couple of months
Medium: price trend over the last couple of quarters
Long: price trend over the past year
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Valuation

Earnings History (3 years)

It is important to look at a companies earnings history to see not only if they are profitable, but if their earnings are growing.
As you can see from the chart above, CEPU's earnings have fluctuated but has increased since, this is a positive sign for the stock.
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Financial Health
What is the current state of the company's financial situation?

We measure the health of a company based on how profitable they are and their ability to cover both their short-term and long-term debts. The key indicators that we use are the Operating Margin, Quick Ratio, and Debt-to-Equity ratio relative to the companies peers

Operational Margin 0.2387

The operating margin measures how much profit a company makes after it spends money on wages, materials or other administrative expenses but before interest and taxes. It is a good representation of how efficiently a company is able to generate profit from its core operations.

Quick Ratio 1.1183

The quick ratio measures how much of a company's debt, that is due in less than 1 year, can be covered using its cash equivalents, marketable securities, and money that is currently owed to them (accounts receivables).

A company with a quick ratio of less than 1.00 does not, in many cases, have the capital on hand to meet its short-term obligations if they were all due at once, while a quick ratio greater than one indicates the company has the financial resources to remain solvent in the short term.

Debt-to-Equity 0.6303

Debt-to-equity is calculated by dividing a company's total liabilities by its shareholders equity. It is a measure of the degree to which a company is financing its operations through debt versus wholly owned funds. Generally speaking, a D/E ratio below 1.0 would be seen as relatively safe, whereas ratios of 2.0 or higher would be considered risky.

The chart above shows Central Puerto (CEPU) operating margin, quick ratio, and debt-to-equity ratio compared to its peers. The black markers represent the peer averages for each ratio and the blue bars represent Central Puerto (CEPU) ratio values.
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Past Performance
How has Central Puerto (CEPU) performed over the past 5 years?

The two main factors that we consider when analyzing past performance is overall return and volatility

Using these two metrics, we can determine if this stock gave its investors enough return for the risk that they took on by owning it. This is measured by the sharpe ratio, which has been used as a primary measure of risk/reward trade-off for almost 60 years.

This ratio can be interpreted as the amount of return an investor has received for the amount of risk that they took on by owning the stock over that timeframe.

Central Puerto (CEPU) sharpe ratio over the past 5 years is 2.1684 which is considered to be above average compared to the peer average of 1.4822

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Company Financials
INCOME STATEMENT
The income statement also known as the profit and loss statement, primarily focuses on the company's revenues and expenses during a particular period.

The main purpose of an income statement is to convey details of profitability and business activities. Below, is CEPU's income statement for the previous four years along with its trailing-twelve- month profit & loss.

FISCAL YEAR (BIL.)
2022 ($)
2023 ($)
2024 ($)
2025 ($)
TTM ($)
Total Revenue
41.44
281.40
677.14
1,058.62
1,673.58
Operating Revenue
41.44
281.40
677.14
1,058.62
1,673.58
Cost Of Revenue
22.95
188.59
411.11
680.55
1,103.52
Gross Profit
18.49
92.81
266.03
378.07
570.06
Operating Expense
19.14
72.28
80.54
188.93
213.53
Selling General And Administration
1.94
20.92
53.44
77.52
103.86
Research and Development
Operating Income
-0.65
20.53
185.49
189.14
356.53
Net Non-Operating Interest Income Expense
13.10
21.85
-13.88
-24.70
-45.69
Other Income Expense
-2.22
117.63
-47.60
269.59
263.67
Other Non-Operating Income Expenses
-17.22
8.07
22.52
Pre-Tax Income
10.22
159.82
124.01
434.03
574.51
Tax Provision
2.19
15.46
72.67
96.87
75.97
Net Income
8.09
146.31
41.06
331.03
478.81
Net Income Common Stockholders
8.09
146.31
41.06
331.03
478.81
Total Operating Income As Reported
20.21
313.10
168.35
355.73
507.42
Total Expenses
42.09
260.88
491.65
869.48
1,317.05
Net Income From Continuing And Discontinued Operation
8.09
146.31
41.06
331.03
478.81
Normalized Income
10.42
12.73
72.00
193.70
323.15
Interest Income
0.58
13.79
31.53
28.49
29.91
Interest Expense
-13.32
-11.47
51.98
49.20
67.89
Net Interest Income
13.10
21.85
-13.88
-24.70
-45.69
EBIT
-3.10
148.35
176.00
483.23
642.40
EBITDA
27.50
218.57
289.78
646.21
855.44
Reconciled Cost Of Revenue
22.95
178.83
361.99
521.17
894.59
Reconciled Depreciation
19.45
70.22
113.79
162.99
213.04
Normalized EBITDA
29.51
92.82
336.54
438.89
616.43
Tax Rate For Calcs
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.24
Tax Effect Of Unusual Items
0.31
-7.83
-15.83
69.99
83.34
BALANCE SHEET
The balance sheet is a snapshot of a companies financials during a particular period in time.

It breaks down what company owns (assets) and what a company owes (liabilities), in order to give investors an overview of its capital structure.

FISCAL YEAR (BIL.)
2022 ($)
2023 ($)
2024 ($)
2025 ($)
TTM ($)
Total Assets
381.94
1,403.29
2,662.06
3,669.79
4,929.67
Current Assets
105.04
292.51
554.31
722.37
1,137.74
Total Non-Current Assets
276.90
1,110.78
2,107.75
2,947.42
3,791.92
Total Liabilities Net Minority Interest
120.59
546.72
798.95
1,053.67
1,867.99
Current Liabilities
42.50
147.86
374.72
407.48
891.79
Other Non-Current Liabilities
Total Equity Gross Minority Interest
261.36
856.57
1,863.11
2,616.12
3,061.67
Stockholders Equity
Total Capitalization
306.40
1,121.19
2,030.06
2,900.25
3,638.72
Common Stock Equity
261.16
834.82
1,800.05
2,551.32
2,963.51
Net Tangible Assets
253.38
818.86
1,769.33
2,510.85
2,485.11
Working Capital
62.54
144.65
179.58
314.89
245.96
Invested Capital
324.58
1,170.00
2,180.84
3,044.34
3,959.22
Tangible Book Value
253.38
818.86
1,769.33
2,510.85
2,485.11
Total Debt
63.43
335.18
380.79
493.03
1,024.85
Net Debt
54.18
321.71
376.95
455.34
989.07
Share Issued
1.51
1.51
1.51
1.51
1.50
Ordinary Shares Number
1.51
1.50
1.50
1.50
1.50
CASH FLOW STATEMENTS
A companies statement of cash flows gives an investor a break down of the cash inflows and outflows from a companies operations and investment activities.
FISCAL YEAR (BIL.)
2022 ($)
2023 ($)
2024 ($)
2025 ($)
TTM ($)
Cash Flow from Continuing Operating Activities
55.64
125.61
258.22
411.21
409.93
Net Income from Continuing Operations
25.80
163.90
142.71
453.03
586.68
Depreciation and Amortization
19.45
70.22
113.79
162.99
213.04
Deferred Tax
Deferred Income Tax
Stock-Based Compensation
Other Non-Cash Items
15.73
131.28
-31.18
107.69
74.96
Change in Working Capital
9.75
-8.47
-26.72
-5.73
-210.29
Change in Receivables
10.04
42.97
61.40
15.51
Changes in Account Receivables
Change in Inventory
Change in Payables and Accrued Expense
-3.68
-19.13
-88.95
-21.78
217.48
Change in Payable
-3.68
-19.13
-88.95
-21.78
217.48
Change in Account Payable
-3.68
-19.13
Change in Other Current Assets
3.39
-32.31
0.84
0.54
-75.44
Change in Other Current Liabilities
Change in Other Working Capital
Cash Flow from Continuing Investing Activities
-31.26
-63.58
-164.91
-276.44
-779.99
Net PPE Purchase and Sale
-3.30
-9.83
-141.39
-295.41
-348.74
Net Business Purchase and Sale
-36.02
0.00
-7.73
-460.22
Purchase of Business
-36.02
0.00
-7.73
-460.22
Net Investment Purchase and Sale
-17.88
-24.45
-31.67
-0.13
25.61
Purchase of Investment
Sale of Investment
Net Other Investing Changes
Financing Cash Flow
-16.31
-79.75
-109.81
-96.24
365.61
Cash Flow from Continuing Financing Activities
-16.31
-79.75
-109.81
-96.24
365.61
Net Issuance Payments of Debt
-6.35
-32.48
-48.32
-59.70
411.25
Net Long-Term Debt Issuance
-8.46
-27.66
-66.25
-214.89
150.15
Long-Term Debt Issuance
64.60
18.29
685.75
Long-Term Debt Payments
-8.46
-99.57
-130.85
-233.17
-535.60
Net Short-Term Debt Issuance
2.11
-4.81
155.19
261.10
Net Common Stock Issuance
Common Stock Issuance
Common Stock Payments
Cash Dividends Paid
-3.59
-21.91
-16.65
-1.01
-0.13
Net Other Financing Charges
-35.53
-39.80
End Cash Position
12.23
49.26
20.71
117.51
137.56
Changes in Cash
7.39
-35.73
-26.50
32.74
-10.23
Beginning Cash Position
3.66
47.04
37.29
84.00
137.31
Capital Expenditure
-3.35
-9.83
-142.50
-295.41
-348.74
Issuance of Capital Stock
Issuance of Debt
86.35
202.08
967.78
Repayment of Debt
-8.46
-99.57
-134.66
-261.78
-556.52
Repurchase of Capital Stock
Free Cash Flow
52.29
115.78
115.72
115.80
61.20