Electric Services
DTE Energy Company engages in the utility operations. The company's Electric segment generates, purchases, distributes, and sells electricity to approximately 2.3 million residential, commercial, and industrial customers in southeastern Michigan. It generates electricity through fossil-fuel, hydroelectric pumped storage, and nuclear plants, as well as wind and solar assets. This segment owns and operates approximately 697 distribution substations and approximately 451,900 line transformers. The company's Gas segment purchases, stores, transports, distributes, and sells natural gas to approximately 1.3 million residential, commercial, and industrial customers throughout Michigan; and sells storage and transportation capacity. This segment has approximately 21,000 miles of distribution mains; 1,352,000 service pipelines; and 1,316,000 active meters, as well as owns approximately 2,000 miles of transmission pipelines. Its DTE Vantage segment offers metallurgical and petroleum coke to steel and other industries; and power, steam and chilled water production, and wastewater treatment services, as well as supplies compressed air to industrial customers. Its Energy Trading segment engages in power, natural gas, and environmental marketing and trading; structured transactions; and the optimization of contracted natural gas pipeline transportation and storage positions. The company was founded in 1903 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.
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High margins render the company resilient under dire circumstances, hence able to drive competitors out or acquire them. ROE and ROA measure the average flow generated by each invested dollar. Their marginal value is a forecast of future growth, and it is considered by Buffett and Munger the most important single indicator.
Years | 12-2015 | 12-2016 | 12-2017 | 12-2018 | 12-2019 | 12-2020 | 12-2021 | 12-2022 | 12-2023 | TTM |
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Net Margin | 7% | 7.8% | 8.8% | 7.9% | 9.2% | 11% | 6% | 5.6% | 11% | 10% |
ROA | 4.3% | 4.5% | 4.9% | 4.4% | 4.1% | 4.4% | 3.8% | 4.1% | 5% | 4.6% |
ROE | 8.2% | 8.8% | 11% | 10% | 9.9% | 11% | 10% | 10% | 13% | 11% |
The average Net Margin over the past 5 years is +8.48%.
The trend of Net Margin over the past 5 years is -0.02%.
The average ROA over the past 5 years is +4.28%.
The trend of ROA over the past 5 years is +0.07%.
The average ROE over the past 5 years is +10.75%.
The trend of ROE over the past 5 years is +0.34%.
Being debt the number one cause of investment losses and company death, the ratio Debt/FCF is of utmost importance to guarantee safety. On the other hand the Graham’s stability measures the drawdown of earnings, hence indicating the reliability of the flow generated by the company.
Years | 12-2015 | 12-2016 | 12-2017 | 12-2018 | 12-2019 | 12-2020 | 12-2021 | 12-2022 | 12-2023 | TTM |
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Debt FCF | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Debt Equity | 1.11 | 1.25 | 1.30 | 1.42 | 1.49 | 1.59 | 2.34 | 1.85 | 1.98 | 1.94 |
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Graham Stability | - | - | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 74% | 94% | 100% | 74% |
The Debt/FCF trailing twelve month is -.
The trend of Debt/FCF over the past 5 years is -.
Graham’s Stability measure stands at 0.74.
Growth can be dangerous when forecasting, simply projecting the current growth is in general wrong. A company passes through multiple phases, from being young and unprofitable, to the first periods of profitability and high growth, until it arrives at a period of regime with limited growth. Identifying in which phase the company is in may help forecasting.
Years | 12-2016 | 12-2018 | 12-2020 | 12-2022 | Trend |
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Revenue | 2.6% | -2.2% | 1.5% | -34% | -0.034% |
Net Income | 7.6% | 4.5% | 0.68% | 29% | 1.5% |
Stockholders Equity | 2.2% | 0.62% | -4.2% | 6.3% | -0.59% |
FCF | - | - | - | - | - |
The Revenue CAGR over the past 5 years is -2.16%.
The trend of Revenue growth rate over the past 5 years is -0.03%.
The Earnings CAGR over the past 5 years is +4.51%.
The trend of Earnings growth rate over the past 5 years is +1.52%.
The Equity CAGR over the past 5 years is +0.62%.
The trend of Equity growth rate over the past 5 years is -0.59%.
The FCF CAGR over the past 5 years is -.
The trend of FCF growth rate over the past 5 years is -.