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Our current read (analysis of 2026-09-11): Designation Low · Gem Score -30 (−100…+100 Quality+Value blend) · Quality 26 · Value -67 · Sentiment -26 (timing only, not weighted) · Composite fair value $82.46 vs $135.82 at analysis
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DTE Energy Company
DTE NYSEDTE Energy Company is a Detroit-based diversified energy company that provides essential electric and natural gas utility services across Michigan. DTE Energy’s regulated operations include electricity generation, purchase, transmission, distribution, and sales, as well as natural gas procurement, storage, transportation, distribution, and sales for residential, commercial, and industrial customers. Beyond its core utilities, the company operates businesses focused on renewable energy, renewable natural gas, industrial energy solutions, and energy marketing and trading. These segments position DTE Energy as a major regional energy provider with a broad role in supporting household, business, and industrial energy needs. Headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, DTE Energy serves as a key utility and infrastructure company in the U.S. energy market.
Price Overview
Price History (1 Year)
Revenue & Net Income Trend
| Period | Revenue | Net Income | Net Margin | YoY/QoQ |
|---|
Key Metrics
EPS (Diluted): 7.03
Total Equity: $12.31B
Shares: 207,000,000
Total Debt: $26.02B
Cash: $208.00M
EBITDA: $4.22B
Total Debt: $26.02B
Cash: $208.00M
Revenue: $15.81B
Revenue: $15.81B
Revenue: $15.81B
Total Equity: $12.31B
Tax Rate: 5.7%
Equity: $12.31B
Total Debt: $26.02B
Cash: $208.00M
Current Liabilities: $5.41B
Long-Term Debt: $23.79B
Total Debt: $26.02B
Total Equity: $12.31B
Shares: 207,000,000
Shares: 207,000,000
CapEx: $0.00
Shares: 207,000,000
Stock Price: $135.88
Net Income: $1.46B
Industry Benchmarks
Income Statement (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 29, 2026 4:40am (23d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $15.0B | $19.2B | $12.7B | $12.5B | $15.8B |
| Cost of Revenue | — | — | — | — | — |
| Gross Profit | — | — | — | — | — |
| Operating Expenses | $13.5B | $17.5B | $10.5B | $10.4B | $13.4B |
| Operating Income | $1.5B | $1.7B | $2.2B | $2.1B | $2.4B |
| Net Income | $907.0M | $1.1B | $1.4B | $1.4B | $1.5B |
| EBITDA | $2.9B | $3.2B | $3.8B | $3.8B | $4.2B |
| EPS | $4.68 | $5.53 | $6.77 | $6.78 | $7.04 |
| EPS (Diluted) | $4.67 | $5.52 | $6.76 | $6.77 | $7.03 |
Balance Sheet (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 29, 2026 4:30am (23d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | $28.0M | $33.0M | $26.0M | $24.0M | $208.0M |
| Total Current Assets | $3.3B | $4.2B | $3.5B | $3.6B | $4.3B |
| Total Assets | $39.7B | $42.7B | $44.8B | $48.8B | $54.1B |
| Current Liabilities | $6.3B | $5.2B | $5.9B | $5.1B | $5.4B |
| Long-Term Debt | $14.5B | $16.9B | $17.4B | $20.7B | $23.8B |
| Total Liabilities | $31.0B | $32.3B | $33.7B | $37.1B | $41.8B |
| Total Equity | $8.7B | $10.4B | $11.1B | $11.7B | $12.3B |
| Retained Earnings | $3.4B | $3.8B | $4.4B | $4.9B | $5.5B |
Cash Flow (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 29, 2026 4:53am (23d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Cash Flow | $3.1B | $2.0B | $3.2B | $3.6B | $3.4B |
| Capital Expenditure | — | — | — | — | — |
| Free Cash Flow | — | — | — | — | — |
| Acquisitions (net) | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | -$210.0M |
| Net Debt Issued / (Repaid) | $935.0M | $584.0M | $1.6B | $2.4B | $3.1B |
| Dividends Paid | -$791.0M | -$685.0M | -$752.0M | -$810.0M | -$871.0M |
| Stock Buybacks | -$66.0M | -$55.0M | $0 | $0 | — |
| Net Change in Cash | -$481.0M | $8.0M | $8.0M | $37.0M | $162.0M |
Growth Trends (YoY %)
Last updated: Aug 29, 2026 4:40am (23d ago)| Metric | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue Growth | +28.5% | -33.7% | -2.3% | +26.9% |
| Gross Profit Growth | — | — | — | — |
| Operating Income Growth | +16.9% | +28.3% | -6.8% | +13.5% |
| Net Income Growth | +19.4% | +29.0% | +0.5% | +4.1% |
| EBITDA Growth | +12.0% | +19.7% | -0.7% | +10.3% |
Dividend History (Last 20)
Last updated: Aug 29, 2026 4:30am (23d ago)| Date | Dividend | Declaration | Record | Payment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-22 | $1.17 | — | — | — |
| 2026-03-16 | $1.17 | — | — | — |
| 2025-12-15 | $1.17 | — | — | — |
| 2025-09-15 | $1.09 | — | — | — |
| 2025-06-16 | $1.09 | — | — | — |
| 2025-03-17 | $1.09 | — | — | — |
| 2024-12-16 | $1.09 | — | — | — |
| 2024-09-16 | $1.02 | — | — | — |
| 2024-06-17 | $1.02 | — | — | — |
| 2024-03-15 | $1.02 | — | — | — |
| 2023-12-15 | $1.02 | — | — | — |
| 2023-09-15 | $0.95 | — | — | — |
| 2023-06-15 | $0.95 | — | — | — |
| 2023-03-17 | $0.95 | — | — | — |
| 2022-12-16 | $0.95 | — | — | — |
| 2022-09-16 | $0.89 | — | — | — |
| 2022-06-16 | $0.89 | — | — | — |
| 2022-03-18 | $0.89 | — | — | — |
| 2021-12-17 | $0.89 | — | — | — |
| 2021-09-17 | $0.83 | — | — | — |
Deep Analysis
Risk : Reward — upside vs downside from this company's own quarters
Computed 2026-09-06 19:07A +1σ run of quarters pays +61%; a −1σ run costs 70%. Ratio 0.9:1 (μ 13.9%, σ 20.3% , 16 pairs).
Older method (repeat-worst-quarter): 3.5 : 1
| Case | Growth | Margin | Fair value | vs price ($135.82) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bull — recovery | +28% | 15.8% | $351.35 | +159% |
| Base — stabilizes | +19% | 13.8% | $231.96 | +71% |
| Bear — keeps slipping | +9% | 11.7% | $147.84 | +9% |
| Stress — last quarter repeats | +16% | 4.4% | $73.51 | -46% |
| Upside — a +1σ run of quarters (v2) | +34% | 8.1% | $219.10 | +61% |
| Stress — a −1σ run of quarters (v2) | -6% | 5.1% | $41.35 | -70% |
Narrative Economics
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Growth Outlook
Analyzed 2026-08-29 05:23The question every valuation on this page silently assumes: is this company likely to grow? Judged forward — the business, its category, the world — against what's already printed.
Claude Reading
Looking at the raw numbers first: DTE's quarterly trajectory is noisy but the headline revenue "acceleration" (Q1'26 $5.14B vs Q1'25 $4.44B, +16%) is largely a weather/commodity artifact typical of Michigan winters — you can see the same seasonal pattern in Q1'25 vs Q1'24 ($4.44B vs prior). Net income tells the real story: Q1'26 NI of $247M is actually *down* 44% from Q1'25's $445M despite higher revenue, and margin compressed from 10% to 4.8%. That's not "accelerating" — that's cost pressure eating into a rate-regulated business. Trailing four quarters of NI sums to ~$1.26B, actually below the $1.46B reported for FY2025, suggesting earnings are decelerating, not compounding. The 27% YoY revenue print in the momentum table is misleading noise.
The balance sheet is where I'd push hardest against the "fortress utility" narrative. Debt/equity of 2.11x, $26B of debt against $208M cash, current ratio 0.80, ROIC of 5.87% — that ROIC is barely above the after-tax cost of debt for a BBB utility in this rate environment. Operating cash flow of $3.41B against a capex program that (per typical DTE guidance) runs $4.5-5B annually means this company is FCF-negative and funding both its dividend (~$1.4B) and its clean-energy capex with debt issuance and equity. That works at 3% rates; it's painful at 5%. The synthesis verdict's "high debt risk" flag is correct and, if anything, undersold by the other layers.
Where I diverge from the models: the synthesis says fair value $95-105 and I think that's too harsh for a regulated utility with Michigan's constructive commission and embedded rate-base growth. Peers (XEL, WEC, ED) trade at 18-21x forward earnings with similar leverage profiles; DTE at 19.3x TTM isn't an outlier — it's mid-pack. The DCF-implied $105 assumes a discount rate that probably overpenalizes regulated cash flows. That said, the market narrative layer nails it: the +$30 premium is a bet on flawless regulatory execution and cooperative rates, and neither is guaranteed. A more defensible fair value band is $115-125, not $95 and not $135. The pre-flight layer's framing as "dividend-income" is right, but a 3.38% yield with a 60% payout on decelerating earnings and negative FCF is not the bargain income vehicle it appears — SO, DUK, and AEP all offer comparable yields with better coverage.
The contrarian case for staying long here: Michigan's IRP allows recovery on the $25B+ clean energy capex plan, rate base is compounding ~7-8%, and if the Fed cuts materially in 2026 the whole utility complex re-rates up 10-15%. Insider activity is neutral-to-negative (one small sale, mostly awards — not a signal either way at these sizes). The contrarian case against: this is a levered bond proxy trading at a growth-stock multiple relative to its actual earnings CAGR of 2.3%. The earnings CAGR being 2.3% against a revenue CAGR of 11.4% is the tell — this company is growing the top line via rate cases and fuel pass-throughs but not converting it to shareholder earnings. That's the definition of a capital-intensive treadmill. Data thinness: no FCF or capex disclosed in this file, which is the single most important number for a utility — I'm inferring from OCF and industry norms, and that's a real gap. The Q1'26 date also suggests this data extends into forward quarters that may be estimates rather than reported actuals; treat accordingly.
Net: I partially agree with the "overvalued" verdict but think the magnitude is overstated. Fair value is closer to $120 than $105 — a 10-12% premium is unwarranted but not egregious. This isn't a short; it's a "don't chase, wait for $118-122 on any rate scare or regulatory hiccup." Income investors already holding should keep clipping the 3.4% coupon; new money should wait. The models collectively lean too hard on the DCF and underweight peer-multiple context, but they're directionally right that you're not being paid for the leverage risk at $136.
GPT Reading
DTE’s numbers read like a utility that is improving operationally but not nearly enough to justify paying a quality premium this large. The headline revenue growth looks better than the economics underneath it: 2025 revenue rose to $15.81 billion from $12.46 billion in 2024, up 27%, yet net income barely moved, to $1.46 billion from $1.40 billion, about 4% growth. That means the incremental revenue carried very poor earnings conversion, and the annual net margin actually slipped from roughly 11.2% to 9.2%. Quarterly data tell the same story. Q1 2026 revenue was $5.14 billion versus $4.44 billion a year earlier, but net income fell from $445 million to $247 million, taking margin from 10.0% to 4.8%. For a regulated utility, I want to see steadier earnings capture from rate base growth; instead I see a business with rising top line, volatile quarterly profitability, and only modest bottom-line progress.
The balance sheet is the main reason I won’t pay up. DTE ended 2025 with $26.02 billion of debt against just $208 million of cash and $12.31 billion of equity, a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.11x. Utilities can and do run levered, but at today’s rates that leverage is not free, and DTE’s return profile doesn’t obviously compensate for it: ROE is 11.9%, ROIC just 5.9%, and EV/EBITDA is 12.8x. Put differently, the enterprise is being valued richly relative to a capital structure that is doing a lot of the work. Operating income did improve to $2.37 billion in 2025 from $2.09 billion in 2024, but that gain translated into only $60 million of net income growth. That spread strongly suggests financing and below-the-line burdens are absorbing too much of the operating progress. In a utility, that often means shareholders are funding a long-duration capex story while the market capitalizes the eventual payoff early.
At $135.88, investors are paying about 19.3x earnings and 2.28x book for a regulated electric utility yielding 3.38%. None of those figures are absurd in isolation, but together they imply a very forgiving market. A 3.4% dividend yield is not enough of a cushion when payout is already about 60% and leverage is elevated. If earnings really compound only low single digits, the stock is effectively a bond proxy with equity risk and regulatory risk attached. The annual record supports “steady,” not “compounding machine”: net income was $907 million in 2021, $1.08 billion in 2022, then $1.40 billion in 2023, flat at $1.40 billion in 2024, and $1.46 billion in 2025. That is respectable, but it does not scream scarcity value at nearly 20x earnings. I come out closer to low-to-mid teens on earnings for this profile, which points more toward a value range around $105-$120 than the current price.
The strongest argument against my view is that DTE is exactly the type of asset the market overpays for and often gets away with it. Operating cash flow was a healthy $3.41 billion in 2025, the dividend looks serviceable, and regulated utility accounting can make quarterly earnings noise look worse than underlying economics. Revenue has rebounded sharply from 2024 levels, operating income is trending up, and if Michigan regulation remains constructive, that leverage can amplify equity returns rather than destroy them. There is also a real possibility that the ugly Q1 2026 margin is timing-related rather than structural; utility quarters can swing with weather, recoveries, and cost true-ups. If investors are buying 5-7% EPS and dividend growth with recession resistance, then 19x may stay supportable, especially if long rates ease.
What would change my mind is evidence that the recent revenue growth is starting to convert cleanly into earnings and cash for equity holders rather than just a larger financed asset base. Specifically, I’d want to see the next few quarters restore net margin toward the 9-11% range instead of the 4.8% seen in Q1 2026, full-year net income running clearly above $1.55 billion, and operating cash flow staying above $3.5 billion without a further step-up in leverage. If DTE can show that 2025’s operating-income improvement was not mostly consumed by financing drag, then the premium multiple becomes more defensible. Absent that, this looks like a good utility business priced like a great one.
Grok Reading
DTE’s raw numbers tell a story of a utility whose top line is expanding faster than its economic engine can convert into owner returns. Annual revenue jumped from $12.46B in 2024 to $15.81B in 2025, a roughly 27% leap that also shows up in the recent quarterly run-rate—$5.14B in the March 2026 quarter alone versus $3.42–$4.44B through most of 2025. Yet net income barely budged, $1.40B to $1.46B, and the five-year earnings CAGR sits at a muted 2.3% against an 11.4% revenue CAGR. Operating income did improve to $2.37B from $2.09B, and the 15% operating margin and 9.2% net margin are respectable for the sector, but ROIC of 5.9% and ROA of 2.7% signal that incremental rate-base and transition spend is not yet earning its keep above a higher cost of capital. Balance-sheet reality is stark: $26.02B of debt against $12.31B of equity (D/E 2.11) and only $208M of cash, with a current ratio of 0.80. Operating cash flow of $3.41B is the genuine bright spot, but missing free-cash-flow and capex figures leave the most important utility question—self-funding of the energy transition—unanswered in the data. At $135.88 the stock prints a 19.3x P/E, 2.28x book, and 12.8x EV/EBITDA while yielding 3.4% on a 60% payout; that multiple set prices in mid-single-digit earnings growth and benign regulation that the trailing 2.3% earnings trajectory has not delivered.
The contradiction with the “steady compounder / dividend-income” framing is the gap between narrative rate-base growth and actual earnings power. Michigan’s regulated construct and the clean-energy story can support a defensive multiple, yet the market is paying roughly 30% above the models’ $95–$105 fair-value band for a company whose ROE of 11.9% is only average and whose leverage leaves little room for rate or regulatory disappointment. Quarterly margins swinging from 4.8% to 16.4% also undercut the “fortress cash flow” claim; weather, fuel, and timing noise still matter. Insider activity is noise—routine awards and one small sale—and does not offset the structural picture.
The strongest counter-case is straightforward: revenue is clearly accelerating, operating profit is rising, the dividend looks covered, and regulated utilities often trade at premiums when rates stabilize and investors chase defensive yield. A bull can argue that 2025’s revenue step-up is the start of multi-year rate-base expansion, that 19x is not outrageous versus peers once growth re-rates toward 5–7%, and that the $30 premium over DCF simply prices constructive Michigan outcomes and renewable capex that will eventually lift ROIC. I weigh that less heavily because earnings have not yet followed revenue, ROIC remains sub-cost-of-capital, cash is thin relative to $26B of debt, and macro headwinds plus “below sector benchmarks” already flag the vulnerability. Paying 19x for 2% historical earnings growth and hoping the narrative closes the gap is the wrong side of the asymmetry.
I would reverse to neutral or constructive on a sustained print of mid-single-digit-plus earnings growth (not just revenue), visible free-cash-flow after capex that covers the dividend with room to spare, and any concrete reduction in net leverage or improvement in interest coverage. A regulatory order that locked in higher allowed ROE on the expanded rate base, or a multiple compression toward the mid-teens while fundamentals held, would also reset the risk/reward.
Big-3 Panel — where each AI stands
Advanced Analysis Forensic deep-dive · separate lenses
DTE is a classic regulated electric utility: revenue swings with commodity pass-through (from $14.96B in 2021 to $19.23B in 2022, then $12.46B-$15.81B) but operating margin has stepped up from ~9-10% to ~15-17% since 2023, and net income has grown steadily from $907M to $1.46B. Free cash flow is robust and consistent at $3.07B-$3.64B annually, comfortably self-funding operations even as the balance sheet carries roughly $25.8B of net debt against just $208M of liquid cash - normal for a rate-base utility but leaves no cushion. Short-term debt of $2.24B versus that cash pile means DTE is perpetually reliant on debt-market access to roll obligations. Earnings quality looks clean: OCF/NI at 2.49x, accruals -4% of assets, and no dilution-driven earnings mirage. Diluted share count has drifted from 194M to 207M (1.6% CAGR) - real but modest dilution, consistent with utility equity issuance to fund capex, and not per-share destructive given EPS is still rising. Altman Z of 0.96 flags 'distress' but the model misreads asset-heavy regulated utilities almost by design; the real risk is rate-case outcomes and interest-rate exposure on the debt stack, not insolvency. Insider tape is inert - one small sale, routine awards, no directional signal. Management appears to be running a standard regulated-utility playbook competently.
Verify before trusting this (5)
- Debt maturity ladder and weighted average interest rate on the ~$26B debt stack
- Recent Michigan Public Service Commission rate case outcomes and allowed ROE
- Capex plan and financing mix (equity vs debt) for coming years
- Whether recent revenue swings are commodity pass-through or underlying volume/rate changes
- Any pending environmental or coal-retirement obligations
The composite fair value of $95.30 and signal-adjusted FV of $104.92 both imply the stock is roughly 23-30% above deserved value. The anchored-PE method spits out $187.69, which looks like a runaway extrapolation of peak multiples and should be discounted; the EPV floor of $2.90 is clearly a broken input (regulated utilities do not have near-zero earnings power) and I ignore it. Triangulating on the composite and DCF-style signal-adjusted numbers, deserved value sits in the $100-$115 zone for a Solid-quality regulated utility with clean earnings and standard leverage. At $135.82 the market is paying a premium multiple for what is, by the quality lens, a textbook - not exceptional - regulated utility. What is priced in: continued constructive Michigan rate cases, on-schedule renewables capex earning authorized ROE, stable rates helping the yield trade, and no weather/operational shock. That is a lot of 'nothing goes wrong' for a mid-20% premium. Quality is real but already in the tape - this is not a mispricing, it's a full price on a good business.
Verify before trusting this (4)
- Latest Michigan PSC rate case order - authorized ROE and equity layer
- Capex plan and rate base growth guidance through 2027
- Any one-off items in TTM EPS that inflate the anchored-PE input
- Interest expense trajectory and refinancing schedule at current rates
DTE sits in the least sentiment-sensitive corner of the market: a 0.4-beta regulated Michigan utility with a moderate, low-cult 'steady compounder plus clean-energy optionality' story. The risk-on tape (VIX 14, +35 score) is a mild positive for equities broadly but does almost nothing for a defensive utility that neither participates in melt-ups nor gets punished in mild pullbacks. There is no active narrative running ahead of or collapsing under this name; the story is stable, boring, and priced accordingly. That means the non-fundamental pressure is genuinely muted. The clearest active pressure is macro: the 10y at 4.67% and a steep-ish curve are a persistent, sector-specific headwind for regulated utilities, whose bond-proxy characteristics keep them capped whenever long rates stay sticky. Layered on top is a 4.1% post-earnings drift lower over the past month and a slight leverage tick (D/E 1.89 to 2.11), which gives the tape a small negative lean rather than a tailwind. Analyst tone appears quiet - no visible target revision wave, no upgrade cycle for DTE Energy specifically (the Zacks upgrade news items are for Deutsche Telekom, the German telecom sharing the DTE root, and do not apply here). Net: a low-amplitude balance with a faint headwind from rates and the earnings hangover, offset by a benign risk-on backdrop and a durable, uncontroversial narrative.
Verify before trusting this (4)
- Whether the 10y breaks above 4.75% or rolls toward 4.25% - biggest single swing factor for the tape here
- Michigan PSC rate case rulings or filings that could shift the regulatory-benignness assumption
- Any real analyst target revisions on DTE Energy (not Deutsche Telekom) in coming weeks
- Sector rotation signals - whether XLU starts leading or lagging as the risk-on tape matures
The world is pushing more electricity demand through regulated wires for the first time in two decades: AI/data-center load, industrial reshoring and electrification of heat and transport. For a monopoly wires-and-pipes owner, that translates mechanically into more approved capital and a bigger rate base — DTE does not have to win customers, it has to win regulators. The offsetting force is the cost of money and bill affordability: at a 4.67% 10-year, financing a large capex program is more expensive, and voters/regulators in a mid-income state like Michigan police residential bills closely. Net: the demand backdrop is the most favorable a regulated electric has faced in a generation, but the pass-through of that demand into per-share earnings is throttled by rate cases and interest expense, which is exactly what DTE's revenue-versus-earnings divergence shows.
When we made this prediction on Aug 29, 2026, DTE was $135.82. We expect it to be $129.00 by Mar 2027, and we consider it great value under $110.00. This is an early model (v0.6.0) — the direction is more reliable than the exact price. Made Aug 29, 2026.
Blue is our prediction, starting the day we made it. Grey is a slower route to the same place — the same destination, taking longer. Black is the actual price, so you can see how we are doing.
Post-Report Due Diligence NOTES
Evidence for a closer look, not a verdict — no score or designation on this page has been changed by it. Items marked material are ones where a conclusion above moves to the other side of the price.
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