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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Utilities · CIK 0001126956
$82.51
-0.46% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 21, 2026
$4.87B market value
From SPIRE INC's FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 14, 2025 · read the filing
SPIRE supplies electricity, gas or water. It took in $2.48B last year, which makes it a mid-sized company. Of every dollar it sells, about 11 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is mixed, with profitability needing attention and growth 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 0.06
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
Several areas of financial weakness.
From SPIRE INC's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Free cash flow
$51.1M → -$344.4M
Gross margin
52.5% → 58.8%
Cash
$4.5M → $5.7M
Gross profit
$1.36B → $1.46B
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Nov 14, 2025
Deteriorated: turned negative
$51.1M to -$344.4MCritical
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.
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
SR fell 0.46% on the latest quote. The average Utilities company tracked here moved +1.72%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 2.2 points below its sector and 0.6 points above the market.
These coincide with the move in time. None is presented as its cause: a price can move on news that names no company, on the wider market, or on trading that no document records.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Opinions from 20 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 20 analysts publishing on this company, 6 say strong buy, 8 say buy and 6 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 11 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $271.7M last year. Note that after $922.4M of spending on property and equipment, it consumed $344.4M more cash than it generated.
No. Sales shrank 4.5% last year.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 67 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 32% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 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 $271.7M and generated $578.0M 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 · Nov 14, 2025Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Nov 14, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Nov 14, 2025Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Nov 16, 2022Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Nov 16, 2022Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $2.48B | $2.59B | $2.67B | $2.20B | $2.24B | −4.5% |
| Cost of revenue | $1.02B | $1.23B | $1.39B | — | — | −17.1% |
| Gross profit | $1.46B† | $1.36B† | $1.27B† | — | — | +6.9% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 58.8% | 52.5% | 47.8% | — | — | +6.3 pts |
| Operating income | $523.9M | $488.3M | $418.6M | $408.2M | $450.2M | +7.3% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 21.2% | 18.8% | 15.7% | 18.6% | 20.1% | +2.3 pts |
| Interest expense | $204.1M | $201.1M | $185.7M | $119.8M | $106.6M | +1.5% |
| Income before tax | $331.4M | $309.6M | $256.3M | $279.7M | $340.2M | +7.0% |
| Net income | $271.7M | $250.9M | $217.5M | $220.8M | $271.7M | +8.3% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 11.0% | 9.7% | 8.2% | 10.0% | 12.2% | +1.3 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $4.61 | $4.35 | $4.09 | $4.21 | $5.26 | +5.9% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SRSPIRE INC · this page | 3.3/10 | 6/9 | -4.5% | 11.0% | 17.92x |
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Was granted or awarded shares — 1,230 shares at $81.04 ($99.7K)
Holds 8,090 shares after this filing.
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.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Signed a material agreement · Took 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.
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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 SR's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-09-30, filed Nov 14, 2025), 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. 9 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 | 3.3 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Nov 14, 2025 |
| FY2024 | 3.3 | 5/8 | 10-K, filed Nov 20, 2024 |
| FY2023 | 6.0 | 5/8 | 10-K, filed Nov 16, 2023 |
| FY2022 | 3.3 | 4/8 | 10-K, filed Nov 16, 2022 |
| FY2021 | 6.0 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Nov 22, 2021 |
| FY2020 | 3.3 | 4/8 | 10-K, filed Nov 18, 2020 |
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
6 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
0.06
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: +6.3 pts
52.5% to 58.8%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Improved: +26.7%
$4.5M to $5.7MSignificant
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: +6.9%
$1.36B to $1.46BNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: +7.3%
$488.3M to $523.9MNotable
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: +8.3%
$250.9M to $271.7MNotable
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: +2.3 pts
18.8% to 21.2%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
9.7% to 11.0%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.
Improved: +5.9%
$4.35 to $4.61Notable
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.
Improved: -9.0%
$3.70B to $3.37BNotable
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: +2.3%
57.7M to 59.0MNotable
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: +9.0%
$167.1M to $182.2MNotable
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.
Changed: +7.1%
$861.3M to $922.4MNotable
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.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed May 6, 2026 — read it.
Deteriorated: +72.1%
$3.35B to $5.76BCritical
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.
Improved: +225.7%
$15.2M to $49.5MCritical
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: +34.8%
$209.3M to $282.2MSignificant
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: +3.3 pts
26.4% to 29.8%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: +7.8 pts
19.9% to 27.7%Significant
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.
Improved: +34.6%
$3.55 to $4.77Significant
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.
Improved: +9.2%
$277.9M to $303.5MNotable
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.
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 5.1% 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.
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Yes. Clearing its debt would take roughly 6.7 years of cash flow. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.41 in assets. A bankruptcy-risk model also places it in its distress range.
The trailing P/E is 8.0x — investors pay $8.0 for each $1 of trailing profit.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
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| Median of peers | 6.0/10 | — | 12.9% | 25.5% | 23.44x | 1.08x |
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Operating margin +3.3 pts · Long-term debt +72.1% · Cash +225.7% — against Q2 FY2025
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Revenue +13.9% · Cash -64.3% · Operating income +16.6% — against Q1 FY2025
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