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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Utilities · CIK 0001733998
$48.80
-0.18% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 21, 2026
$2.03B market value
From Northwest Natural Holding Co's FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026 · read the filing
Northwest Natural Holding supplies electricity, gas or water. It took in $1.29B last year, which makes it a mid-sized company. Of every dollar it sells, about 9 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is mixed, with profitability and growth needing attention and debt weaker.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
A published bankruptcy-risk model places it in its distress range. This is a statistical reading, not a forecast.
Altman Z-Score 0.62
These are things the company filed or that a published model flagged — not predictions, and not a reason on their own to buy or sell anything.
Financial health
A mixed picture — some clear strengths and some weaknesses.
From Northwest Natural Holding Co's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Operating income
$191.1M → $280.9M
Profit
$78.9M → $113.3M
Operating margin
16.6% → 21.8%
Earnings per share
$1.96 → $2.73
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 27, 2026
Improved: +47.0%
$191.1M to $280.9MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +43.7%
$78.9M to $113.3MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
NWN fell 0.18% on the latest quote. The average Utilities company tracked here moved +1.72%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 1.9 points below its sector and 0.9 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Opinions from 11 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 11 analysts publishing on this company, 3 say strong buy, 4 say buy and 4 say hold. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 9 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $113.3M last year. Note that after $466.9M of spending on property and equipment, it consumed $197.8M more cash than it generated.
Slowly. Sales grew 11.8% last year.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 68 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 29% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 10 years.
GoodNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $113.3M and generated $269.1M of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Feb 27, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 28, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 23, 2024Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 23, 2024Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 25, 2022Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $1.29B | $1.15B | $1.20B | $1.04B | $860.4M | +11.8% |
| Operating income | $280.9M | $191.1M | $184.9M | $167.5M | $163.1M | +47.0% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 21.8% | 16.6% | 15.4% | 16.1% | 19.0% | +5.2 pts |
| Income before tax | — | — | — | $115.4M | $106.1M | — |
| Net income | $113.3M | $78.9M | $93.9M | $86.3M | $78.7M | +43.7% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 8.8% | 6.8% | 7.8% | 8.3% | 9.1% | +1.9 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $2.73 | $1.96 | $2.49 | $2.43 | $2.53 | +39.0% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Sold on the open market — 1,500 shares at $48.71 ($73.1K)
Holds 47,759 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 244 shares at $46.67 ($11.4K)
Holds 2,219 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Made a Regulation FD disclosure · Reported another event
Read the filingTook on a direct financial obligation
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 60 subsidiaries named in its 10-K, incorporated across 7 places. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from NWN's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 27, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing. Total liabilities were not tagged directly and were calculated as assets minus equity.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 8 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 4.7 | 4/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 3.3 | 3/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 28, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 6.0 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 6.0 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 4.7 | 7/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 4.7 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
4 of 8 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. One could not be evaluated and is excluded from the total rather than counted as a failure.
0.62
In the distress zone
For this model, above 2.6 is safe and below 1.1 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Improved: +5.2 pts
16.6% to 21.8%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: +39.0%
$1.96 to $2.73Significant
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: +35.3%
$1.68B to $2.27BSignificant
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Changed: +18.4%
$394.4M to $466.9MSignificant
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Improved: +11.8%
$1.15B to $1.29BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +1.9 pts
6.8% to 8.8%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Deteriorated: $3.7M wider
-$194.1M to -$197.8MNotable
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Deteriorated: +3.3%
40.2M to 41.6MNotable
Why it matters: New shares divide the same company into more pieces, so each existing holding owns slightly less of it. Often pay for staff or an acquisition rather than anything wrong.
Changed: +6.1%
$72.9M to $77.3MNotable
Why it matters: Cash handed to shareholders. A rise can be a higher dividend or simply more shares, and a cut is a decision the company explains in its own filing — neither is rated here.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Aug 5, 2026 — read it.
Improved: turned positive
-$2.5M to $600.0KCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: turned positive
-$0.06 to $0.01Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: -76.4%
$102.6M to $24.2MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +21.9%
$27.2M to $33.2MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +2.1 pts
11.5% to 13.6%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: +1.3 pts
-1.1% to 0.2%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Deteriorated: +13.9%
$2.09B to $2.38BNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Deteriorated: +2.9%
40.9M to 42.1MNotable
Why it matters: New shares divide the same company into more pieces, so each existing holding owns slightly less of it. Often pay for staff or an acquisition rather than anything wrong.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Aug 5, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Deteriorated: -50.3%
$490.4M to $243.6MCritical
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Deteriorated: -79.6%
$162.9M to $33.2MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: -99.4%
$97.5M to $600.0KCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: −19.6 pts
33.2% to 13.6%Critical
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: −19.6 pts
19.9% to 0.2%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Deteriorated: -99.4%
$2.32 to $0.01Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: -30.7%
$34.9M to $24.2MSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
1 other measure barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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About 4.5% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
Yes. Clearing its debt would take roughly 8.9 years of cash flow. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.31 in assets. A bankruptcy-risk model also places it in its distress range.
The trailing P/E is 30.9x — a high multiple relative to the current trailing profit.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Sold on the open market — 1,500 shares at $48.03 ($72.0K)
Holds 49,259 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 341 shares at $49.07 ($16.7K)
Holds 13,606 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 705 shares at $49.07 ($34.6K)
Holds 7,234 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 1,500 shares at $50.86 ($76.3K)
Holds 50,759 shares after this filing.
Reported a transaction — 1,141 shares at $50.77 ($57.9K)
Holds 4,655 shares after this filing.
Reported a transaction — 248 shares at $50.77 ($12.6K)
Holds 11,217 shares after this filing.
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
Filed notice to sell 19,500 shares ($1.1M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via VARIOUS METHODS AND DATES.
Filed notice to sell 21,000 shares ($1.2M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via VARIOUS METHODS AND DATES.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Quarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Operating margin +2.1 pts · Profit turned positive · Earnings per share turned positive — against Q2 FY2025
Published results
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation · Reported another event
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Operating margin +2.0 pts · Free cash flow -96.8% · Cash -65.1% — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Revenue +11.8% · Operating margin +5.2 pts · Operating income +47.0% — against FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingTook on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Revenue +20.3% · Operating margin +6.6 pts · Operating income $6.9M narrower — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingThe first 40 of 60. The rest are in the exhibit.
Source: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-02-27. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
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