CMS Energy Corporation

CMS stock score: 57/100

$70.30 · +3.19% · Scored Oct 22, 2026

Technical
56
Fundamental
58
News
46

The reading

CMS Energy (CMS) scores 57 out of 100, which reads neutral, higher than 45% of Utilities stocks and 65% of the 4,161 US stocks we score.

The composite is technicals and fundamentals weighted equally: technicals read 56, fundamentals 58.

Among the fundamentals, Institutional Ownership at 100 and EBITDA Margins at 92 score highest, while Earnings Growth (Quarterly) at 0 weighs the most against it.

On the daily chart, trend-following indicators average 61 and contrarian oscillators 24 — a split worth reading before trusting the technical total.

News sentiment is neutral at 46; it is shown, not counted in the composite.

Since Jul 25, 2026 the composite has ranged from 49 to 73, and it is down 15 points over the period.

What’s driving the score

The strongest and weakest of the scorers that count toward CMS’s composite. Each returns 0–100, higher is more bullish — including metrics where low is good, like P/E.

Fundamental

58

Pulling it up

  • Institutional Ownership100

    Institutional ownership measures the percentage held by professional investors.

  • EBITDA Margins92

    EBITDA margins measure operating profitability before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization.

  • Earnings Quality (Annual)91

    Earnings Quality (Annual) assesses absolute profitability independent of growth, measuring whether the company is profitable, its earnings yield (earnings/market cap), profit margins, and consistency.

Holding it back

  • Earnings Growth (Quarterly)0

    Quarterly earnings growth measures profit increase versus the prior-year quarter.

  • Free Cash Flow Yield1

    Free cash flow yield is free cash flow divided by market value: the cash a business generates for each dollar of its price.

  • Quick Ratio28

    Quick ratio measures a company's ability to meet short-term obligations with liquid assets.

41 weighted scorers.

Technical · daily

54

Pulling it up

  • Know Sure Thing (KST)100

    Know Sure Thing (KST) combines multiple rate-of-change calculations to identify long-term trend reversals.

  • Percentage Price Oscillator (PPO)100

    Percentage Price Oscillator shows the difference between two moving averages as a percentage.

  • Parabolic SAR (PSAR)100

    Parabolic SAR (Stop and Reverse) provides trailing stop levels that follow price trends.

Holding it back

  • Bollinger Bands (20)0

    Bollinger Bands (20-period) plot standard deviations above and below a moving average.

  • Money Flow Index (14)0

    Money Flow Index (14-period) is a volume-weighted RSI that identifies overbought and oversold conditions.

  • Williams %R (28)1

    Williams %R (28-period) places the close within the last 28 periods' high-low range.

62 weighted scorers; 3 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

News · shown, not counted

Global News
46

Technical score by timeframe

ChartScoreWeight
Hourly601
Daily543
Weekly492
Monthly592
Quarterly602

Composite score, last 90 days

05010057Jul 25, 2026Oct 22, 2026Jul 25, 2026: 72Jul 26, 2026: 72Jul 27, 2026: 72Jul 28, 2026: 73Jul 29, 2026: 72Jul 30, 2026: 69Jul 31, 2026: 62Aug 2, 2026: 55Aug 3, 2026: 56Aug 5, 2026: 54Aug 6, 2026: 52Aug 7, 2026: 52Aug 8, 2026: 53Aug 9, 2026: 52Aug 10, 2026: 51Aug 11, 2026: 52Aug 12, 2026: 56Aug 13, 2026: 54Aug 14, 2026: 54Aug 15, 2026: 53Aug 16, 2026: 55Aug 17, 2026: 54Aug 18, 2026: 56Aug 19, 2026: 53Aug 20, 2026: 53Aug 22, 2026: 51Aug 23, 2026: 51Aug 24, 2026: 52Aug 25, 2026: 53Aug 26, 2026: 53Aug 27, 2026: 52Aug 28, 2026: 53Aug 29, 2026: 53Aug 30, 2026: 53Aug 31, 2026: 52Sep 1, 2026: 53Sep 2, 2026: 53Sep 3, 2026: 54Sep 4, 2026: 53Sep 5, 2026: 54Sep 6, 2026: 54Sep 7, 2026: 54Sep 8, 2026: 55Sep 9, 2026: 52Sep 10, 2026: 51Sep 11, 2026: 51Sep 12, 2026: 52Sep 13, 2026: 52Sep 14, 2026: 51Sep 15, 2026: 50Sep 16, 2026: 51Sep 17, 2026: 52Sep 18, 2026: 50Sep 19, 2026: 50Sep 20, 2026: 50Sep 21, 2026: 50Sep 22, 2026: 49Sep 23, 2026: 50Sep 24, 2026: 50Sep 25, 2026: 49Sep 26, 2026: 49Sep 27, 2026: 50Sep 28, 2026: 49Sep 29, 2026: 50Sep 30, 2026: 50Oct 1, 2026: 50Oct 2, 2026: 51Oct 3, 2026: 51Oct 4, 2026: 51Oct 5, 2026: 51Oct 6, 2026: 52Oct 7, 2026: 52Oct 8, 2026: 52Oct 9, 2026: 53Oct 10, 2026: 53Oct 11, 2026: 53Oct 12, 2026: 53Oct 13, 2026: 54Oct 14, 2026: 54Oct 15, 2026: 55Oct 16, 2026: 56Oct 17, 2026: 56Oct 18, 2026: 56Oct 19, 2026: 55Oct 20, 2026: 56Oct 21, 2026: 56Oct 22, 2026: 57
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Key facts

Market cap
$22.0B
Sector
Utilities
Industry
Utilities - Regulated Electric
Beta
0.31
Risk grade (1–10)
1
Next earnings
Oct 27, 2026

Utilities - Regulated Electric peers

CompanyMarket capScore
FE FirstEnergy$26.9B60
PPL PPL$26.6B62
ES Eversource Energy$25.6B55
EIX Edison International$22.3B57
EVRG Evergy$19.6B61
LNT Alliant Energy$18.2B60

Questions

What is CMS's stock score today?

CMS scores 57/100 (Neutral) as of Oct 22, 2026: technical 56, fundamental 58, and news sentiment 46, which is shown but not counted. Scores are recomputed every night.

Is CMS a buy?

The score is not a buy or sell recommendation. A 57 says the technical and fundamental signals we measure lean neutral today, relative to every other stock scored the same way. Use the breakdown above to see why, and treat it as a starting point for your own research.

How is the CMS score calculated?

103 weighted scorers feed it today: 41 fundamental, scored against Utilities ranges, and 62 technical on the daily chart, with 5 timeframes blended into the technical total. Every scorer returns 0–100; missing data is left out, never counted as zero.

Scores are information, not investment advice. Computed from Yahoo Finance, Finnhub and Alpha Vantage data; technical indicators via TA-Lib. Past scores do not predict future returns.