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Aug 15, 2026
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Our current read (analysis of 2026-08-25): Designation Low · Gem Score -28 (−100…+100 Quality+Value blend) · Quality -30 · Value -27 · Sentiment 27 (timing only, not weighted) · Composite fair value $46.89 vs $86.41 at analysis

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Sempra

SRE NYSE
Utilities · Utilities - Diversified
San Diego, CA 92101, United States sempra.com Updated Aug 14, 11:01am
Price
$86.78
Market Cap
$56.5B
Employees
15,938
Beta
0.58
Avg Volume
3,305,709
Last Dividend
$2.61
CEO
Mr. Jeffrey Walker Martin

Sempra is a North American energy infrastructure and public utility holding company based in San Diego, California. It focuses on owning and operating large-scale electric and natural gas infrastructure that serves residential, commercial and industrial customers in key economic regions. Through its Sempra California segment, the company provides regulated natural gas and electric services in Southern and parts of central California. Its Sempra Texas Utilities business includes a significant ownership stake in Oncor, a major electric transmission and distribution platform in Texas. The Sempra Infrastructure segment develops, owns and operates liquefied natural gas export facilities, pipelines, storage, and related energy networks in the U.S., Mexico and global markets. Across these platforms, Sempra delivers electricity, gas distribution, transmission and storage, and supports cross-border energy flows and long-term contracted infrastructure. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in San Diego, Sempra plays a central role in the utilities and energy infrastructure sector, serving one of the largest utility customer bases in the United States and contributing to reliable energy delivery across North America.

Runs with full report Generated: Aug 15, 2026 12:23am
Price Overview
Price at report time
$86.41
as of Aug 15, 12:20am (10d ago)
Change · Aug 15
-0.07 (-0.08%)
Day Range
$86.24 – $87.26
52-Week Range
$78.97 – $101.04
50-Day MA
$90.79
200-Day MA
$91.60
Volume
2,272,864.00
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Share Structure
Outstanding 653,754,366.00
Float 627,960,121.00
Free Float 96.1%
High free float — 96.1% of shares trade freely, ~3.9% held by insiders/institutions
Very liquid — most shares trade freely. Low insider ownership can mean less management alignment, but makes large position sizing straightforward.
Price History (1 Year)
Last updated: Aug 15, 2026 12:31am (10d ago)
Revenue & Net Income Trend
The directional story — useful even when net income is negative.
Last updated: Aug 11, 2026 7:42pm (13d ago)
Revenue
The top line — total sales before any costs or taxes are subtracted. A measure of how much business the company is doing.
Net Income
The bottom line — profit left after subtracting all expenses, interest, and taxes from revenue. Reflects accounting profitability, but includes non-cash items like depreciation, so it isn't the same as cash earned.
Operating Cash Flow
The real cash generated by the day-to-day business — selling products, paying suppliers, collecting from customers. Calculated from net income by adding back non-cash items and adjusting for timing (unpaid bills, unsold inventory). When OCF consistently lags net income, the reported profit may not be converting to real money.
Period Revenue Net Income Net Margin YoY/QoQ
Key Metrics
TD Twelve Data statement HEX SEC filing
Industry comparison last run: Aug 15, 2026 12:21am
P/E Ratio (Price per dollar of earnings)
HEX
Stock Price / EPS (Diluted)
31.42
Stock Price: $86.78
EPS (Diluted): 2.75
P/B Ratio (Price vs net asset value)
HEX
Stock Price / Book Value Per Share
1.46
Stock Price: $86.78
Total Equity: $38.79B
Shares: 653,826,000
EV/EBITDA (Total value vs operating profit)
HEX
Enterprise Value / EBITDA
Market Cap: $56.55B
Total Debt: $4.17B
Cash: $29.00M
EBITDA: N/A
EBITDA not available
Enterprise Value (Takeover price (cap + debt - cash))
HEX
Market Cap + Total Debt - Cash
$60.6B
Market Cap: $56.55B
Total Debt: $4.17B
Cash: $29.00M
Gross Margin (Revenue left after direct costs)
HEX
Gross Profit / Revenue
Gross Profit: N/A
Revenue: $13.70B
Missing from API: Gross Profit
Operating Margin (Revenue left after all operations)
HEX
Operating Income / Revenue
Operating Income: N/A
Revenue: $13.70B
Missing from API: Operating Income
Net Margin (Revenue left as actual profit)
HEX
Net Income / Revenue
13.4%
Net Income: $1.84B
Revenue: $13.70B
ROE (Profit from shareholder equity)
HEX
Net Income / Total Equity
4.7%
Net Income: $1.84B
Total Equity: $38.79B
ROIC (Profit from all invested capital)
HEX
NOPAT / Invested Capital
Operating Income: N/A
Tax Rate: 39.2%
Equity: $38.79B
Total Debt: $4.17B
Cash: $29.00M
Missing from API: Operating Income
Current Ratio (Can it pay short-term bills)
HEX
Current Assets / Current Liabilities
1.59
Current Assets: $34.84B
Current Liabilities: $21.89B
Debt/Equity (Leverage — debt vs equity)
HEX
Total Debt / Total Equity
0.11
Short-Term Debt: $4.17B
Long-Term Debt: $0.00
Total Debt: $4.17B
Total Equity: $38.79B
Rev/Share (Top-line per share)
HEX
Revenue / Shares Outstanding
$20.96
Revenue: $13.70B
Shares: 653,826,000
Book Value/Share (Net assets per share)
HEX
(Total Assets - Total Liabilities) / Shares
$59.33
Total Equity: $38.79B
Shares: 653,826,000
FCF/Share (Real cash generated per share)
HEX
(Operating Cash Flow + CapEx) / Shares
$-9.25
Operating CF: $4.57B
CapEx: -$10.61B
Shares: 653,826,000
CapEx is negative (outflow) — added to OCF to get FCF
Div Yield (Annual income from holding)
TD
Last Annual Dividend / Stock Price
3.0%
Last Dividend: $2.61
Stock Price: $86.78
Payout Ratio (Earnings paid out as dividends)
HEX
Dividends Paid / Net Income
87.3%
Dividends Paid: -$1.60B
Net Income: $1.84B
Industry Benchmarks
Last run: Aug 15, 2026 12:21am
Compares SRE against LLM-researched typical ranges for its industry. One research call per industry, cached indefinitely — every stock in the same industry reuses the same baseline.
Income Statement (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 11, 2026 7:42pm (13d ago)
Metric 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Revenue $12.9B $14.4B $16.7B $13.2B $13.7B
Cost of Revenue
Gross Profit
Operating Expenses
Operating Income
Net Income $1.3B $2.1B $3.1B $2.9B $1.8B
EBITDA
EPS $2.11 $3.39 $4.81 $4.44 $2.75
EPS (Diluted) $2.11 $3.38 $4.79 $4.42 $2.75
Balance Sheet (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 11, 2026 7:42pm (13d ago)
Metric 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Cash & Equivalents $559.0M $370.0M $236.0M $1.6B $29.0M
Total Current Assets $4.4B $5.9B $5.5B $5.3B $34.8B
Total Assets $72.0B $78.6B $87.2B $96.2B $110.9B
Current Liabilities $10.0B $9.9B $10.1B $9.7B $21.9B
Long-Term Debt
Total Liabilities $44.6B $49.3B $53.5B $58.4B $72.1B
Total Equity $27.4B $29.3B $33.7B $37.8B $38.8B
Retained Earnings $13.5B $14.2B $15.7B $17.0B $17.1B
Cash Flow (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 11, 2026 7:42pm (13d ago)
Metric 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Operating Cash Flow $3.8B $1.1B $6.2B $4.9B $4.6B
Capital Expenditure -$5.0B -$5.4B -$8.4B -$8.2B -$10.6B
Free Cash Flow -$1.2B -$4.2B -$2.2B -$3.3B -$6.0B
Acquisitions (net)
Net Debt Issued / (Repaid) $197.0M $4.2B $8.2B $8.1B $12.5B
Dividends Paid -$1.3B -$1.4B -$1.5B -$1.5B -$1.6B
Stock Buybacks -$339.0M -$478.0M -$32.0M -$43.0M -$58.0M
Net Change in Cash -$404.0M -$119.0M -$73.0M $1.2B $2.0B
Growth Trends (YoY %)
Last updated: Aug 11, 2026 7:42pm (13d ago)
Metric 2022 2023 2024 2025
Revenue Growth +12.3% +15.8% -21.1% +3.9%
Gross Profit Growth
Operating Income Growth
Net Income Growth +62.3% +43.8% -6.9% -35.8%
EBITDA Growth
Dividend History (Last 20)
Last updated: Aug 11, 2026 12:51pm (13d ago)
Date Dividend Declaration Record Payment
2026-06-25 $0.66
2026-03-19 $0.66
2025-12-11 $0.65
2025-10-01 $0.65
2025-06-26 $0.65
2025-03-20 $0.65
2024-12-05 $0.62
2024-09-26 $0.62
2024-06-27 $0.62
2024-03-20 $0.62
2023-12-05 $0.60
2023-09-26 $0.60
2023-07-03 $0.60
2023-03-21 $0.60
2022-12-21 $0.57
2022-09-22 $0.57
2022-07-06 $0.57
2022-03-24 $0.57
2021-12-22 $0.55
2021-09-23 $0.55
0Company Classification 1Industry Landscape 2Company Momentum 3Forward Projection 4aDCF Valuation 4bEarnings Power Value 4cAnchored PE 4dReverse DCF 4eRevenue-Based DCF 4fAnchored P/S 4gScenario Analysis 4hDividend Discount Model 4iBook Value Analysis 4jInsider Activity 4fCash Flow Quality 4gDebt Maturity Risk 4hMacro Environment 4iSector Intelligence 4jRevenue Confidence 4kSensitivity Analysis 4lSector Demand Cycle 5AI Investigation 5bThesis Evaluation 6Valuation Synthesis
computed not applicable not yet run 13 computed · 6 not applicable · 5 not yet run
Risk : Reward — if the last quarter repeats
Live · as of 2026-08-19 20:16
-0.9 : 1 recovery upside vs repeat-quarter downside
Even the bull case prices 58% below today — the ratio here measures the model-vs-market gap, not payoff odds. Another quarter like the worst recent one costs 64%.
CaseGrowthMarginFair valuevs price ($86.41)
Bull — recovery -3% 16.6% $36.38 -58%
Base — stabilizes -7% 14.4% $28.54 -67%
Bear — keeps slipping -10% 12.3% $21.97 -75%
Stress — last quarter repeats -4% 14.4% $31.52 -64%
The next quarters keep the trajectory of the most recent ones — growth stays at -3.9% and margins bend by the same profit-vs-revenue ratio (×1.00). Stress is a trajectory, not a prediction — it answers "what if the ship's current heading simply continues," which history says is the case to respect.
Why this is appearing: this company files quarterly, so its recent trajectory could be measured rather than assumed — the engine matched Mar 2026 against the same quarter one year earlier and found revenue -3.9% · net income +13.1% year-over-year. That measured heading is what the stress case extends forward. Data measured through Mar 31, 2026 — this card recalculates automatically when the next quarterly filing is ingested. Companies without quarterly filings (many foreign listings) never show this card: with no measured trajectory, there is nothing honest to repeat.
Narrative Economics
The story the market is telling about this stock — the intangible X-factor (founder mythology, cult dynamics, TAM-of-imagination) that moves price beyond what cash flows alone explain. After Shiller, Narrative Economics.
No narrative profile yet for SRE — it's generated by the pipeline (market-narrative step).
AI Lens 4th lens · how AI reaches this business · 5-yr
2026-08-15
The creme is there an opportunity here? Conditional opportunity
Sempra is one of the cleanest physical toll roads on AI compute demand — but the toll only reaches shareholders if regulators and the equity market cooperate.
Scarcity migration scores 88 because interconnection capacity in ERCOT is becoming the binding constraint of the entire AI buildout and Oncor sits on it; that is the structural case. The offset is ai_margin_conversion at 40 and a financing picture where FCF was -$6.05B and shares climbed from 626M to 654M — AI-driven growth here is bought, not harvested. Watch the Oncor capex plan revisions and large-load cost-allocation rulings in Texas before the market re-rates: that is where AI demand either becomes recoverable rate base or becomes a dilutive treadmill.
69
AI Position
Favorable — AI arrives as demand, not substitution
Cheap intelligence does not threaten Sempra's core task of moving electrons and molecules; it inflates the load Oncor and Sempra California must serve, turning AI into a rate-base growth engine whose shareholder value hinges entirely on regulatory recovery and financing terms.
Exposure 66 Confidence 67 50 = neutral
Primary Tailwind

Data-center and electrification load in ERCOT flows through Oncor's transmission and distribution franchise, converting AI compute buildout into approved capital spend earning a regulated return — the most direct AI-to-rate-base transmission channel in the pool.

Primary Pressure

Rate-base growth is not free: capex is running far ahead of operating cash (FCF -$6.05B in 2025, diluted shares up from 626M to 654M), so AI-driven investment only creates value if allowed ROEs, recovery timing and equity issuance terms cooperate.

Forensic fingerprint same 11 factors for every stock · 0 unfavorable · 50 neutral · 100 favorable
Underlying Need Persistence do people still need this at all? 96
Delivered power and gas are more needed in an AI-heavy economy, not less.
Machine intelligence is an electricity-consuming physical process; every incremental token increases the need for the exact service Sempra's franchises provide. No plausible AI path reduces demand for regulated delivery in Southern California or North Texas.
ERCOT large-load interconnection queue size · Oncor peak demand forecasts · California gas throughput decline rate
relevance 72 · confidence 92
Solution Persistence will they still solve it this way? 84
Wires and pipes remain the delivery mechanism; the gas side is the soft edge.
AI cannot dematerialize transmission and distribution, so the solution persists in Texas. California gas, however, faces policy-driven electrification that shrinks the throughput base independent of AI.
California building electrification mandates · SoCalGas customer count trend · Behind-the-meter generation approvals in ERCOT
relevance 66 · confidence 78
Intelligence Commoditization does cheap AI power them or copy them? 66
Cheap AI is a tool for grid operations, not a competitor to the franchise.
Predictive maintenance, vegetation and wildfire-risk modeling, outage prediction and call-center automation shave O&M, but none of these are the profit engine; nobody can commoditize a certificated service territory with a model.
O&M per customer trend · AI wildfire detection deployment · Customer service headcount changes
relevance 42 · confidence 62
Responsibility Transfer are they paid to take the blame? 52
Sempra carries reliability and wildfire liability, but California pays for it grudgingly.
Being the accountable party for safe delivery is a genuine barrier — no hyperscaler wants to own utility-scale liability — yet California's inverse-condemnation regime makes that responsibility a cost center rather than a priced service.
Wildfire fund adequacy and legislation · Safety-related disallowances in GRC · Cost-of-capital adders for CA risk
relevance 38 · confidence 60
Scarcity Migration do their assets get rarer or more common? 88
Interconnection capacity, rights-of-way and permitted sites become the binding constraint of the AI buildout.
As compute becomes abundant, the scarce input migrates to firm power delivery and grid access — assets Sempra already holds in the two fastest-growing US load pockets plus permitted LNG export capacity on the Gulf and Pacific coasts.
Permian Basin transmission plan approvals · New Oncor points of interconnection · LNG FID and offtake announcements
relevance 86 · confidence 76
Customer DIY Preference will customers just build it themselves? 52
Hyperscalers can self-generate behind the meter and partially bypass the wire.
In ERCOT, large loads have real options — co-located gas turbines, on-site solar, eventual SMRs — that avoid transmission charges; the DIY threat here is physical generation, not software, and it is the one genuine bypass risk.
Co-located generation deals in Texas · ERCOT large-load tariff rulings · Share of new load taking full T&D service
relevance 58 · confidence 58
AI Intermediation Position do AI agents go through them or around them? 70
Agents cannot route around a physical delivery monopoly.
There is no software layer that can disintermediate a regulated wires business; the only intermediation risk is retail-level, and Oncor is already a wires-only entity insulated from retail competition.
Retail choice structure changes · Third-party DER aggregation rules
relevance 22 · confidence 66
Data Leverage does their data make AI better? 48
Meter and grid telemetry improve operations but are not a monetizable moat.
AMI and grid sensor data support outage and asset-health models that lower cost, but regulated utilities cannot easily monetize data externally and the benefit largely returns to ratepayers.
Grid analytics program filings · Regulatory treatment of data-driven savings
relevance 26 · confidence 55
AI Margin Conversion do the AI savings become profit? 40
Regulation recycles AI-driven cost savings to ratepayers at the next rate case.
Under cost-of-service, O&M efficiency is retained only between rate cases; the shareholder benefit of AI-driven productivity is a timing gain, not a permanent margin expansion — value accrues through rate base, not through cost cuts.
Length of rate case cycles · Performance-based ratemaking adoption · Authorized vs earned ROE gap
relevance 48 · confidence 68
Revenue Unit Durability does the thing they charge for survive? 82
The monetized unit — invested rate base and delivered volumes — is expanding, not eroding.
AI increases the quantity of the unit Sempra charges for; the risk is not disappearance of the unit but rate-affordability pushback if residential customers subsidize data-center-driven investment.
Large-load cost allocation rulings · Residential bill affordability politics · Rate base growth guidance revisions
relevance 70 · confidence 74
Entrant Compression how easily can newcomers copy them? 86
Cheap software does nothing to lower the barrier of building a competing grid.
Franchises, siting, easements, decade-long permitting and multi-billion capital needs are untouched by AI; the only entry vector is competitive transmission bids and behind-the-meter generation, both narrow.
Competitive transmission awards in Texas · Permitting timelines for new lines · Third-party generation co-location scale
relevance 56 · confidence 76

AI Lens thesis

Outcome range spread 40

45Bear case
68Central case
85Bull case
Three headline numbers, deliberately never blended: Position (which way), Exposure (how much it matters at all), Confidence (how sure). The fingerprint asks every stock the same 11 questions so companies a sector label would lump together get told apart. Not an input to GEM/Coal or the Q/V/S lenses.
Growth Outlook
Analyzed 2026-08-17 16:32

The 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.

Growing Beneath messy reported revenue (gas cost pass-through plus the Sempra Infrastructure stake sale/deconsolidation), the real engine — Oncor's Texas rate base and load-growth queue, a large California capital program and LNG projects moving toward service — supports mid-to-high single-digit earnings growth, so Growing rather than Accelerating. conf 7/10
Inline with category Category growing · The diversified-utility category is in a genuine boom (~10.9% median recent growth, broad reinvestment, holding margins) while Sempra's reported revenue grew ~3.9% — a -7pt gap. But utility 'share' is franchise-granted, not contested: the gap is driven by natural-gas cost pass-through deflation, the Sempra Infrastructure stake sale/deconsolidation, and the fact that Oncor's contribution flows through equity earnings rather than consolidated revenue. Rate base and load growth in Texas are at or above category pace.
Next 2 quarters
Growing
Rate-case revenue increases and Texas transmission spend flow through on schedule, comparisons lap the portfolio reshaping, and the recent beat cadence (four of five) implies a conservative base. Nothing in the near-term mix implies re-acceleration, but earnings direction is positive.
≈ inline with expectations
Year 1
Growing
Full-year EPS growth is carried by rate base additions in California and Oncor plus a lower share count/portfolio drag anniversarying out. Consolidated revenue optics may stay muted on gas pass-through, but earnings power rises.
≈ inline with expectations
Years 2–3
Growing
Structural: the capital plan compounds rate base in the two best US load-growth territories, and LNG projects shift from cash consumption to contracted cash generation. Growth is durable but taxed by financing cost and dilution, so mid-to-high single digits rather than Accelerating.
↑ above expectations
The creme: each rung's call measured against what's already printed (vs analyst estimates · vs guidance / FY consensus · vs price-implied growth) — expectations in print are already in the price, so only the variant margin can pay. Hover a rung's chip for the margin read.
Growth drivers
70 Oncor rate base and Texas load growth — Sempra Texas Utilities' stake in Oncor sits in the fastest-growing large T&D territory in North America, with data-center and industrial interconnection demand driving transmission capex. This is rate-based, mechanically recovered growth that converts capital deployment into earnings with regulatory lag rather than demand risk — the single most reliable forward driver.
59 Large, front-loaded regulated capital plan — The bulk of the multi-year capital program lands in regulated utilities (California electric/gas hardening and Texas T&D). Rate base compounding is the primary mechanism behind management's long-run EPS growth ambition, and it is largely independent of volume trends — the reason reported revenue growth of ~3.9% understates the earnings-power trajectory.
46 Sector demand boom is real, not narrative — Category median recent growth of ~10.9% with heavy reinvestment and holding margins signals genuine electricity demand acceleration. For a franchise utility this shows up as approved capex and load growth rather than share competition, and it improves the odds regulators authorize the spend.
36 LNG projects transitioning from build to cash — Port Arthur Phase 1 and ECA move from construction spend toward contracted, largely take-or-pay cash flows late in the horizon; incremental phases are optional upside rather than required. This is a step-function earnings contributor in years 2-3, not the next two quarters.
29 Consistent estimate beats — Four of the last five prints beat EPS estimates (+22%, +5%, +9%, 0%, +9%), suggesting the reset base after guidance revisions is now conservative and regulatory recoveries are landing on or ahead of schedule.
Growth risks
56 California regulatory and wildfire exposure — SDG&E/SoCalGas earnings depend on general rate case and cost-of-capital outcomes plus affordability politics; decarbonization pressure on gas throughput and any adverse wildfire-liability development can compress authorized returns or delay recovery. This is the main variable that could turn a Growing call into Holding.
47 Financing cost and equity/asset-sale dilution — With the 10-year near 4.63% and a very large capex plan, funding gaps get closed with debt at higher coupons, asset/stake sales and potential equity — each of which dilutes per-share growth even as rate base compounds. The reported -35.8% recent earnings YoY partly reflects this portfolio reshaping and prior-year comparisons.
36 Revenue trajectory genuinely lags the category — Recent YoY 3.9% versus industry 10.9% and a negative multi-year revenue CAGR. Much is pass-through and deconsolidation, but it removes any margin for error: if California volumes and Mexico contributions stay soft, consolidated growth leans almost entirely on Oncor equity earnings.
26 Mexico and LNG execution/geopolitical risk — Cross-border permitting, contract counterparties and construction cost inflation can push in-service dates and returns on the infrastructure segment; incremental FIDs are not certain, so structural upside is optionality, not baseline.
The world is adding electric load faster than it has in decades — data centers, electrification, industrial reshoring — and the constraint is wires, gas peakers and interconnection capacity, exactly what Sempra owns in two of the strongest US load-growth economies. That backdrop converts capital spending into approved rate base rather than speculative demand bets. The offsets are cost-of-capital (a 4.63% 10-year makes every dollar of the capex plan more expensive to fund and raises the bar in rate cases) and affordability politics in California, where decarbonization costs and wildfire risk sit on a customer base already paying high rates. Globally, LNG demand security supports contracted export economics, though incremental expansion depends on permitting and buyer appetite. Net: a structurally favorable demand world with a financing and regulatory tax on the returns.
Growth position composite +26
ShrinkingStallingHoldingGrowingAccelerating
70Next 2 quarters · Growing
70Year 1 · Growing
70Years 2–3 · Growing
+26Composite (−100…+100)
A research prediction, not advice. Forward-graded: each rung is scored against the prints that follow it. Not an input to the GEM designation — track record first.
Claude Reading
Independent analyst synthesis · claude-opus-4-7 · generated 2026-08-15 00:31:00
Verdict Modestly overvalued but nowhere near the synthesis's $45 — fair value $70-78 on normalized earnings; wait for a pullback below $75 or Port Arthur milestone before committing, and demand corrected debt figures before sizing.

The raw numbers tell a messier story than either the "premium utility" bull case or the synthesis's -47.7% overvaluation call. Quarterly net income has been wildly erratic — $95M in Q3'25, $352M in Q4'25, then a suspicious $1.04B pop in Q1'26 on flat-to-down revenue ($3.66B vs $3.80B YoY). That Q1'26 28.4% net margin is not a regulated utility's organic earnings — it smells like an asset sale gain, a regulatory true-up, or a deferred tax benefit. Strip it out and TTM NI is roughly $1.96B, giving a real P/E closer to 29 on trailing earnings that shrank from $3.08B (2023) to $1.84B (2025) — a 40% two-year earnings decline while shares trade near highs. That's the tension the models are dancing around.

The balance sheet reported here is almost certainly wrong or incomplete: $4.17B total debt against $38.8B equity yields a 0.107 D/E, which is impossible for a utility holding company that owns Oncor and SoCalGas. Sempra's actual consolidated long-term debt is north of $30B. This matters because the synthesis flags "high debt risk — interest coverage dangerously low" while the canonical metrics claim trivial leverage. Both can't be right, and the FMP data is the likelier culprit — someone is pulling parent-only or a mis-mapped line. Capex of -$10.6B against $4.57B operating cash flow producing -$6.05B FCF is the more reliable signal: Sempra is in a heavy capex supercycle (Port Arthur LNG, Oncor T&D buildout) funded by debt and equity issuance, and the 87% payout ratio on shrinking earnings is a real yellow flag, not a narrative one.

I largely agree with the synthesis direction but not the magnitude. A $45 DCF fair value implies Sempra is worth roughly 24x depressed 2025 earnings — that's punitive for a utility with Oncor (best T&D asset in the US arguably) and a real LNG franchise. The market-forces "shrinking utility" framing overreads the 2023→2025 revenue decline, which reflects natural gas commodity pass-through normalization more than volume/rate-base erosion; rate base is growing high-single-digits. The narrative model's split — $45 fundamentals + $41 optionality — is directionally right but the fundamental anchor is too low. A fairer regulated-utility multiple of 18-20x normalized $2.5B earnings (mid-cycle) gets you to $70-78, meaning ~10-20% overvalued, not 48%. The contrarian case for the bulls: if Port Arthur Phase 2 FID hits and Mexico LNG (ECA) ramps on schedule, 2027 EPS accelerates to $5.00+ and today's $86 looks reasonable at 17x forward.

Where I dissent from every model: none seriously grapple with the fact that Sempra cut its 2025 EPS guidance and reset the growth algorithm — that's why the stock underperformed XLU by ~15% YTD and why the "premium utility" P/E of 31 is a stale artifact of depressed E, not paid-up P. On normalized earnings the multiple is ~17x, roughly in line with peers like AEP and DUK, not premium. The pre-flight model calling this a "premium utility at P/E 31 vs sector 18-20" is mechanically true but analytically misleading. The real question is whether Oncor's rate base growth (~10%) and LNG cash flows starting 2027 restore the 6-8% EPS CAGR management targets. If yes, fair value is $80-90. If California wildfire liability re-emerges or Port Arthur slips, it's $65. The synthesis's $45 requires believing both regulated franchises structurally impair — I don't see evidence for that.

GPT Reading
Independent reading · gpt-5.4 · generated 2026-08-15 00:31:16
Verdict Overvalued at $86.78 — fair value looks closer to $60-$70 unless earnings recover toward $2.8B+ and capex starts converting into visibly stronger owner cash flow.

At $86.78, Sempra is being valued like a growth utility even though the reported earnings base has gone the wrong way. Annual revenue rose from $13.19B in 2024 to $13.70B in 2025, a modest 3.9%, but net income fell from $2.86B to $1.84B, a 36% drop. That is not a trivial wobble; it drives the P/E to 31.4x on a business generating just 4.7% ROE and 1.7% ROA. Quarterly numbers reinforce the point. The latest quarter was strong at $1.04B of net income on $3.66B of revenue, but the three quarters before that were $352M, $95M, and $473M, which is too erratic for anyone to simply annualize the March quarter and call the stock cheap. The market is paying 4.1x sales and 1.46x book for a utility whose earnings power, on the actual annual data, has deteriorated sharply from $3.08B in 2023 to $1.84B in 2025.

What stands out most is the mismatch between accounting leverage and economic capital intensity. The balance sheet shows only $4.17B of debt against $38.79B of equity, which would normally make this look conservatively financed, but the cash flow statement tells the real story: $4.57B of operating cash flow and a brutal -$6.05B of free cash flow after $10.61B of capex. This is not a cash-harvesting utility; it is a heavy reinvestment story. That can be fine if the reinvestment earns high regulated returns or unlocks visible growth, but the current returns are not proving that yet. A payout ratio of 87% and dividend yield of 3.0% also leave less room for error than investors typically prefer in a rising-capex utility. If I strip away the premium story and just look at what owners are getting today, they are accepting utility-like income with subpar current cash conversion and a premium multiple.

The strongest argument against this bearish read is that 2025 may simply be an unusually depressed earnings year while the asset base is being built for the next leg of growth. The quarterly progression actually supports some of that rebuttal: after the ugly $95M September quarter and soft $352M December quarter, March rebounded to $1.04B, above the $917M posted in the prior-year March quarter. Revenue has also held firmer than the long-term CAGR implies, with the latest quarter up from $3.80B to $3.66B only modestly and the annual base still above 2021 by roughly $840M. On that view, the market is looking through a trough period and capitalizing a future rate base, infrastructure expansion, and possibly higher earnings normalization. The low reported debt-to-equity of 0.11 and current ratio of 1.59 give some support to the idea that this is not a balance-sheet emergency, and book value backing at 1.46x is not absurd if the underlying assets are high quality and regulated.

I still weigh those positives less heavily because the valuation already assumes they arrive. A utility with a 3% yield, negative free cash flow of $6.05B, and a recent annual profit collapse should not command 31x earnings unless the earnings rebound is both near-term and durable. The problem is that the reported data do not yet show that durability. Even if I give full credit to the March quarter strength, investors are still paying today for tomorrow’s normalization. For this stock to deserve the current price, I would want to see annual net income recover back toward at least $2.6B-$3.0B, with operating cash flow rising enough to cover more of the $10B+ capex burden, rather than hoping intermittent strong quarters bridge the gap. Until then, the premium multiple looks like a story stock wrapped in utility clothing.

What would change my mind is straightforward: two or three consecutive quarters with net income consistently in the $700M-$1.0B range, evidence that 2026 can annualize above $2.8B of net income, and capex translating into materially better free cash flow rather than another year around -$6B. If management can show that 2025 was a trough and not a reset—through sustained earnings recovery without stretching the payout further—then a premium to the utility group would be justified. Absent that, I think the stock is discounting upside too aggressively and is vulnerable to a rerating into a more ordinary utility multiple.

Grok Reading
Independent reading · grok-4.5 · generated 2026-08-15 00:31:57
Verdict Overvalued at $86.78 — fundamentals support closer to mid-$40s to low-$50s until earnings and FCF recover; 31× P/E on −36% earnings growth is unjustified

Sempra’s numbers describe a regulated utility whose earnings power is eroding while the market still pays a growth multiple. Annual net income has fallen from $3.08B in 2023 to $2.86B in 2024 and $1.84B in 2025—a roughly 40% collapse in two years—on revenue that peaked at $16.72B and now sits at $13.70B. Trailing earnings CAGR of −22.7% and recent earnings YoY of −35.8% are incompatible with a 31.4× P/E and a 4.1× sales multiple. Operating cash flow of $4.57B looks healthy until you net the $10.61B capex bill: free cash flow is −$6.05B, yet the company is distributing an 87% payout ratio and a 3.0% dividend yield. That combination is financed by the balance sheet and the narrative, not by residual cash. ROE of 4.7% and ROA of 1.7% confirm the firm is not currently earning an attractive return on the capital it is deploying. The Q1 2026 print ($1.04B NI, 28.4% margin) is a sharp rebound from the $95M and $352M quarters that preceded it, but one strong quarter does not reverse a multi-year earnings downtrend or close a gap this wide to fair value.

The quantitative composite pointing near $45–47 versus a $87 stock is directionally right even if the precise DCF is debatable. At $86.78 the equity is pricing roughly double the cash-flow anchor the models assign to the core regulated utility plus base LNG. Debt/equity of 0.11 and only $4.17B of reported debt look conservative on paper, but cash is a thin $29M against that capex run-rate, and interest-coverage flags in the synthesis are consistent with a company that must keep accessing markets to fund the build. Revenue has stabilized modestly (+3.9% recent YoY, $13.19B to $13.70B annually), which is better than the longer −9.5% CAGR, yet the margin and earnings volatility across 2025 quarters (3% to 24% NI margins) undercuts the “stable utility cash flow” story that normally supports premium multiples. A traditional utility trading at nearly twice sector P/E while earnings shrink and FCF burns is not a mature earner being fairly paid; it is a narrative premium resting on Mexico LNG scale-up and Oncor optionality that have not yet shown up in consolidated NI.

The strongest opposing case is straightforward: the −$6B FCF is intentional rate-base and LNG infrastructure investment that should convert into allowed returns and contracted export cash flows, not a sign of operational decay. Believers will cite the $4.57B operating cash engine, the low reported leverage, California and Texas regulatory constructs that historically support mid-to-high single-digit rate-base growth, and the Q1 2026 earnings snapback as evidence the trough is behind. They will also argue that a 1.46× book multiple is not extreme for scarce energy-transition infrastructure and that the 3% yield plus inflation-linked rate base justifies holding through the spend cycle. I weigh that less heavily because the payout is already 87% of a depressed earnings base while cash generation is deeply negative; the market is not waiting for the projects to earn—it has already capitalized the upside at roughly a 90% premium to the fundamental DCF. If LNG and Oncor were delivering, earnings CAGR would not be −23% and net margin would not have compressed the way the annual series shows. Superior jurisdictions matter, but they do not rewrite a 31× multiple on falling profits.

I would reverse to neutral or constructive only if trailing-twelve-month net income reclaims and holds above ~$2.7–3.0B with net margins sustainably back in the high teens, free cash flow turns materially less negative on a clear multi-year path to breakeven as major LNG trains and Texas T&D spend enter rate base, and management demonstrates the dividend is covered by free cash rather than financing. A concrete commercial milestone that converts Mexico/LNG optionality into contracted EBITDA large enough to justify even half the current premium would also force a re-rating of the bear case. Absent those, the stock remains a rich multiple on a shrinking earner.

Big-3 Panel — where each AI stands
Each AI above independently stated a direction (undervalued, fairly valued, or overvalued) and how strongly it believes it (conviction, 0–5). We combine those into a Bull-Bear Index on a 0–10 scale: 5 is neutral, 10 is maximum bullish (undervalued at full conviction), 0 is maximum bearish. We compute the score ourselves with the same arithmetic for every seat — the models never grade their own bullishness — so the three are directly comparable. Δ shows how far each seat sits from the panel average of 1.3; a large Δ marks the dissenting voice, usually the one worth reading.
Claude claude-opus-4-7 2.0
overvalued · conviction 3/5 · Δ +0.7 vs panel · self: 4.0
GPT gpt-5.4 1.0
overvalued · conviction 4/5 · Δ -0.3 vs panel · self: 3.0
Grok grok-4.5 1.0
overvalued · conviction 4/5 · Δ -0.3 vs panel · self: 2.0
Advanced Analysis Forensic deep-dive · separate lenses
Separate reads — Company Quality (is it a great business?), Valuation (is it mispriced?), and General Sentiment (how macro + narrative are pushing it), plus AI Impact (how the AI wave reshapes it), kept deliberately apart · 2026-08-15 09:05:27
Delvantic - Cairn AI
Quality-with-caveats - wait for a dip 7/10
Sempra is a fair-to-slightly-rich regulated utility with genuine AI-driven rate-base optionality, but nothing here demands I pay $86 today.
The cruxWhether ERCOT/Oncor load growth and Port Arthur execution convert the negative-FCF capex cycle into recoverable rate base fast enough to justify a ~19-20x multiple before regulatory or financing friction resets the story.
Forensic checks Derived mechanically from SRE's filed financials — not from the AI lenses
Liquidity & RunwayCritical Runway
DilutionStable Share Count
Earnings QualityGood Earnings Quality
The four lensesswitch a tab for its full read — score + evidence
Company Quality
-30
Mixed
edge √Σ 80 · risk √Σ 111 · conf 6/10

Sempra is a diversified regulated utility (California utilities, Texas Oncor stake, LNG infrastructure) whose top line has oscillated between $12.9B and $16.7B over 2021-2025 and delivered net income of $1.3B-$3.1B, landing at $1.84B in 2025 - a step down from $2.86B and $3.08B in the prior two years. Operating cash flow comfortably covers reported earnings (OCF/NI 1.93x, accruals -2.1% of assets), which supports the reported earnings as economically real. That is the utility bull case: rate-based, mature, cash-generative at the operating line. The concern is the capital structure and reinvestment intensity. Free cash flow has been negative every year of the window and is worsening: -$1.17B, -$4.22B, -$2.18B, -$3.31B, -$6.05B. Net debt sits at roughly $4.1B with only $29M of liquid cash and $4.17B of short-term debt, and the Altman Z of 0.95 flags distress on the model (though Z is notoriously punitive for leveraged regulated utilities that fund capex with structural debt). Share count has drifted from 626M to 654M (about 1.1%/yr CAGR), a modest but real leak that partly funds the capex program alongside the debt stack. Insider behavior is unremarkable - routine director awards and small opportunistic sales by Winn, Ferrero, Day; no open-market buying and no cluster selling. Overall this reads as a normal-shape regulated utility running a very large growth capex cycle (LNG, Texas T&D), where quality hinges on regulatory outcomes and financing access rather than on any operational red flag.

Strengths 3
m55
Clean earnings quality signals
OCF/NI of 1.93x and accruals of -2.1% of assets indicate reported profits are backed by cash at the operating level - no evidence of aggressive accrual accounting.
m42
Disciplined share issuance
Diluted share CAGR of 1.1% with SBC only 0.5% of revenue and buyback/SBC at 261% - dilution is contained for a utility funding a multi-billion capex cycle.
m40
Regulated, durable revenue base
Revenue $12.9B-$16.7B across the cycle with net income positive every year - the underlying franchise (CA utilities, Oncor, LNG) provides earnings durability typical of the sector.
Concerns 5
m72
Persistent and worsening negative FCF
FCF has been negative all five years and deteriorated to -$6.05B in 2025 vs -$1.17B in 2021, meaning the business structurally depends on external capital to fund its capex program.
m58
Thin liquidity vs near-term debt
Only $29M liquid cash against $4.17B of short-term debt and $4.14B net debt - the company is entirely reliant on ongoing capital-market access to roll obligations.
m45
Earnings step-down in 2025
Net income fell from $3.08B (2023) and $2.86B (2024) to $1.84B (2025) on flattish revenue ($13.19B to $13.70B), suggesting margin or non-op pressure worth diligencing.
m35
Altman Z 0.95 in distress zone
Z-score flags bankruptcy-model distress, though the metric systematically mislabels regulated capital-intensive utilities; still, it corroborates the leverage picture.
m22
Routine insider selling, no buying
Recent tape shows only small S-sales by Winn ($724K), Ferrero, Day, and routine director A-awards - no P buys, but no cluster-sell alarm either.
This looks like a textbook mid-cycle regulated utility burning cash on a large growth capex program - not a quality red flag by itself, since the model rewards rate-based reinvestment, but also not a fortress. The earnings are real (accruals and OCF confirm), dilution is well-controlled, and the franchises are durable. What holds me back from calling it Strong is the direction of travel: FCF is getting worse, not better, liquidity is razor-thin against near-term debt, and 2025 NI dropped hard on flat revenue. I want to see the rate cases land and LNG cash flows arrive before upgrading. For now this is a Mixed - a solid utility running its balance sheet hot.
Verify before trusting this (5)
  • Regulatory rate-case outcomes at SDG&E/SoCalGas and Oncor - authorized ROE and rate base growth drive earnings quality here
  • Composition of 2025 NI decline vs 2024 - one-time charges, impairments, or structural margin compression
  • LNG project (Port Arthur, ECA) financing structure, JV cash calls, and timing of first-cash contributions
  • Debt maturity ladder and unused revolver capacity supporting the $4.17B short-term stack
  • Whether the 5-year capex plan is self-funded post-completion or requires continued equity issuance beyond 1.1%/yr
Valuation / Mispricing
-27
Fairly Valued
edge √Σ 39 · risk √Σ 67 · conf 6/10
price $86.41 vs deserved ~$82-90 on a peer-anchored 17-19x forward EPS — call it a ~0-5% premium, essentially fair. attractive below $72.00

With no e2e composite handed over, I have to triangulate. Sempra earns roughly $4.30-$4.60 of EPS on guidance, so $86.41 is ~19-20x forward earnings and ~1.7-1.8x book — a modest premium to the pure-regulated peer group (SO, DUK, AEP typically 17-19x) that the LNG/Texas growth optionality arguably justifies but does not obviously underprice. Market cap $56.5B against a business generating steady regulated ROE but persistently negative FCF because of a large rate-based capex program means the equity is being valued on rate-base growth and LNG earnings power, not on cash today.
The bull case (irreplaceable infrastructure, LNG export ramp, Texas load growth) is largely in the multiple; the bear case (California regulatory drag, Mexico/LNG execution risk, need to fund capex with debt and some equity) is a real offset. Earnings quality is good, which supports the deserved multiple, but the Mixed quality grade and deeply negative FCF prevent me from awarding a premium beyond peers. Net: price and deserved value sit within a ~10% band of each other — the definition of fair.

Cheap signals 2
m30
LNG optionality not fully in consensus EPS
Port Arthur and expansion phases add earnings power beyond the near-term guide; if executed, the current multiple looks reasonable rather than stretched.
m25
Good earnings quality supports the multiple
OCF confirms accruals and dilution is controlled — the reported earnings deserve a full utility multiple, not a haircut.
Rich / priced-in 3
m45
Trades at a premium to pure-regulated peers
~19-20x forward EPS versus 17-19x for SO/DUK/AEP; the LNG and Texas growth story is being paid for, not given away.
m40
Deeply negative FCF funded by leverage
Capex program forces ongoing debt issuance; equity holders are paying today for rate-base earnings that arrive over years, which caps the deserved multiple.
m30
California and Mexico regulatory overhang
Rate caps, decarbonization capex recovery risk, and cross-border political risk argue for a discount to pure US regulated peers, not a premium.
I read this as fairly valued — a decent regulated utility with genuine LNG optionality already priced in at ~19x. The Mixed quality grade and persistent negative FCF keep me from paying a premium here, but there is no glaring overpricing either. I would want it in the low-70s before I got interested; anywhere in the 80s I am indifferent and would rather own a cleaner-FCF utility at similar multiples.
Verify before trusting this (5)
  • Updated multi-year EPS and rate-base CAGR guidance
  • Port Arthur LNG Phase 1 in-service timing and Phase 2 FID economics
  • Sempra Infrastructure equity monetization/JV terms and proceeds
  • California GRC outcome and allowed ROE trajectory
  • Parent-level debt issuance and any equity funding needs through 2026
General Sentiment
+27
Tailwind
tail √Σ 92 · head √Σ 64 · conf 6/10

The dominant force on SRE right now is the LNG-scarcity narrative reignited by the Qatar strike. Wall Street is actively naming U.S. LNG-levered names as August winners, and Sempra's platform-monopoly framing (irreplaceable Gulf export infrastructure plus Mexico scale-up) plugs directly into that story. With narrative intensity strong and durability moderate, this is a real tailwind pressing on the tape - not a mania, but a persistent bid for the LNG cohort. Risk-on regime (VIX 14.3, tape near highs) is a mild positive but SRE's 0.58 beta means the macro tape barely moves it either way; the stock-specific narrative dominates. Cross-currents temper the read. The Texas data-center moratorium headline is a fresh overhang for Oncor optionality, one of the pillars of the bull story, and PCG-style value-trap chatter around California utilities reminds the market that CA rate-cap and decarbonization costs still exist. Analyst tone is not screaming, and 3-year relative performance is soft (-5pp), suggesting the LNG re-rating is still building rather than crowded. Net: modest but real tailwind, driven by the narrative more than the tape.

Tailwinds 4
m62
LNG scarcity narrative reignited
Qatar facility strike has Wall Street explicitly rotating into U.S. LNG-levered names for August; Sempra's Port Arthur/ECA franchise sits directly in that basket and the story has fresh legs.
m55
Platform-monopoly framing intact
Strong-intensity narrative around irreplaceable cross-border energy infrastructure supports a premium multiple; with cult coefficient low, this is institutional conviction, not froth that can vanish overnight.
m30
Risk-on tape, but muted by low beta
VIX 14.3 and S&P near highs are supportive, but at 0.58 beta the macro tailwind lands softly on SRE - helpful, not decisive.
m28
Recent momentum inflecting positive
Recent 3.9% vs -9.5% long-term CAGR suggests the tape is starting to reprice the LNG optionality; still early, not crowded.
Headwinds 3
m48
Texas data-center moratorium threatens Oncor story
Abbott's Aug. 3 moratorium and next week's key meeting directly pressure the Oncor load-growth thesis that underpins a chunk of the narrative premium; fresh, specific, and unresolved.
m35
California utility value-trap contagion
PCG value-trap coverage keeps CA regulatory/rate-cap risk in front of investors; SoCalGas/SDG&E exposure means Sempra gets tarred, if lightly, with the same brush.
m25
Geopolitical/Mexico execution overhang
Bear case leans on Mexico regulatory and geopolitical risk to the LNG scale-up; not acute today but a persistent low-grade press on how much premium the market will pay.
Net leans tailwind, but modestly. The LNG narrative is the real force here and it just got a fresh catalyst; combined with a calm risk-on tape and a low-beta profile that shields SRE from macro chop, the pressure vector points up. The Texas data-center moratorium is the one live headwind that could genuinely dent a pillar of the story, and California value-trap chatter is a background drag. I read this as a Tailwind, not Strong - the narrative is strong but durability is only moderate and the bearish cross-currents are specific enough to keep me from calling it dominant.
Verify before trusting this (4)
  • Outcome of next week's Texas data-center moratorium meeting - resolution either way flips the Oncor narrative
  • Analyst target revisions on SRE post-Qatar - are LNG names getting explicit price-target bumps or just thematic mentions
  • Any CPUC action on California rate structures that could pull SRE into the PCG value-trap bucket
  • ECA/Port Arthur project milestones or offtake announcements that harden the LNG story
The market-wide tape + this name's exposure to it (beta / sector / narrative durability). Context on the non-fundamental pressure — not a call on the business or the price. processId: detail-general-sentiment
AI Impact
+48
Favorable — AI arrives as demand, not substitution
opp √Σ 120 · thr √Σ 10 · conf 7/10
AI opportunities 7
m66
Underlying Need Persistence
Delivered power and gas are more needed in an AI-heavy economy, not less.
m45
Solution Persistence
Wires and pipes remain the delivery mechanism; the gas side is the soft edge.
m13
Intelligence Commoditization
Cheap AI is a tool for grid operations, not a competitor to the franchise.
m65
Scarcity Migration
Interconnection capacity, rights-of-way and permitted sites become the binding constraint of the AI buildout.
m9
AI Intermediation Position
Agents cannot route around a physical delivery monopoly.
m45
Revenue Unit Durability
The monetized unit — invested rate base and delivered volumes — is expanding, not eroding.
m40
Entrant Compression
Cheap software does nothing to lower the barrier of building a competing grid.
AI threats 1
m10
AI Margin Conversion
Regulation recycles AI-driven cost savings to ratepayers at the next rate case.
Sempra is one of the cleanest physical toll roads on AI compute demand — but the toll only reaches shareholders if regulators and the equity market cooperate. Scarcity migration scores 88 because interconnection capacity in ERCOT is becoming the binding constraint of the entire AI buildout and Oncor sits on it; that is the structural case. The offset is ai_margin_conversion at 40 and a financing picture where FCF was -$6.05B and shares climbed from 626M to 654M — AI-driven growth here is bought, not harvested. Watch the Oncor capex plan revisions and large-load cost-allocation rulings in Texas before the market re-rates: that is where AI demand either becomes recoverable rate base or becomes a dilutive treadmill.
Verify before trusting this (8)
  • Permian Basin transmission plan approvals
  • New Oncor points of interconnection
  • LNG FID and offtake announcements
  • ERCOT large-load interconnection queue size
  • Oncor peak demand forecasts
  • California gas throughput decline rate
  • Large-load cost allocation rulings
  • Residential bill affordability politics
The structural effect of the AI wave on this specific business over the next ~5 years — demand, cost leverage, moat, barriers to entry, position in the AI stack. The reality beneath the AI story, not the story's market pressure (General Sentiment owns that) — and not a call on the business today or the price.
Growth Outlook
+26
Growing
edge √Σ 112 · risk √Σ 86 · conf 7/10

The world is adding electric load faster than it has in decades — data centers, electrification, industrial reshoring — and the constraint is wires, gas peakers and interconnection capacity, exactly what Sempra owns in two of the strongest US load-growth economies. That backdrop converts capital spending into approved rate base rather than speculative demand bets. The offsets are cost-of-capital (a 4.63% 10-year makes every dollar of the capex plan more expensive to fund and raises the bar in rate cases) and affordability politics in California, where decarbonization costs and wildfire risk sit on a customer base already paying high rates. Globally, LNG demand security supports contracted export economics, though incremental expansion depends on permitting and buyer appetite. Net: a structurally favorable demand world with a financing and regulatory tax on the returns.

Growth drivers 5
m70
Oncor rate base and Texas load growth
Sempra Texas Utilities' stake in Oncor sits in the fastest-growing large T&D territory in North America, with data-center and industrial interconnection demand driving transmission capex. This is rate-based, mechanically recovered growth that converts capital deployment into earnings with regulatory lag rather than demand risk — the single most reliable forward driver.
m59
Large, front-loaded regulated capital plan
The bulk of the multi-year capital program lands in regulated utilities (California electric/gas hardening and Texas T&D). Rate base compounding is the primary mechanism behind management's long-run EPS growth ambition, and it is largely independent of volume trends — the reason reported revenue growth of ~3.9% understates the earnings-power trajectory.
m46
Sector demand boom is real, not narrative
Category median recent growth of ~10.9% with heavy reinvestment and holding margins signals genuine electricity demand acceleration. For a franchise utility this shows up as approved capex and load growth rather than share competition, and it improves the odds regulators authorize the spend.
m36
LNG projects transitioning from build to cash
Port Arthur Phase 1 and ECA move from construction spend toward contracted, largely take-or-pay cash flows late in the horizon; incremental phases are optional upside rather than required. This is a step-function earnings contributor in years 2-3, not the next two quarters.
m29
Consistent estimate beats
Four of the last five prints beat EPS estimates (+22%, +5%, +9%, 0%, +9%), suggesting the reset base after guidance revisions is now conservative and regulatory recoveries are landing on or ahead of schedule.
Growth risks 4
m56
California regulatory and wildfire exposure
SDG&E/SoCalGas earnings depend on general rate case and cost-of-capital outcomes plus affordability politics; decarbonization pressure on gas throughput and any adverse wildfire-liability development can compress authorized returns or delay recovery. This is the main variable that could turn a Growing call into Holding.
m47
Financing cost and equity/asset-sale dilution
With the 10-year near 4.63% and a very large capex plan, funding gaps get closed with debt at higher coupons, asset/stake sales and potential equity — each of which dilutes per-share growth even as rate base compounds. The reported -35.8% recent earnings YoY partly reflects this portfolio reshaping and prior-year comparisons.
m36
Revenue trajectory genuinely lags the category
Recent YoY 3.9% versus industry 10.9% and a negative multi-year revenue CAGR. Much is pass-through and deconsolidation, but it removes any margin for error: if California volumes and Mexico contributions stay soft, consolidated growth leans almost entirely on Oncor equity earnings.
m26
Mexico and LNG execution/geopolitical risk
Cross-border permitting, contract counterparties and construction cost inflation can push in-service dates and returns on the infrastructure segment; incremental FIDs are not certain, so structural upside is optionality, not baseline.
vs expectations: ~6m inline · 1y inline · 2-3y above
The forward growth verdict — is the business itself likely to grow (next 2 quarters / year 1 / years 2–3), judged against its category and against printed expectations. The full horizon ladder + creme renders on the Growth Outlook card above. Not a call on the price (Valuation owns that) or the tape (Sentiment owns that).
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Price Prediction
Lower -12.0% v0.6.0 View full prediction →

When we made this prediction on Aug 15, 2026, SRE was $86.41. We expect it to be $76.00 by Feb 2027, and we consider it great value under $72.00. This is an early model (v0.6.0) — the direction is more reliable than the exact price. Made Aug 15, 2026.

Price when predicted$86.41
Our estimate for Feb 2027$76.00-12.0%
Great value below$72.00
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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.

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v1.1.562 · 9b2927c4 · 2026-08-22 16:52:06