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Company snapshot — Contact Energy Limited

CEN.AU in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Contact Energy generates and retails electricity in New Zealand, running hydro, geothermal, thermal and battery storage assets under a Wholesale segment that sells power to the grid and to industrial buyers. Its Retail segment supplies electricity, gas, broadband and mobile plans to households and businesses, and it offers ancillary services such as steam and geothermal well work. The company is based in Wellington and sells power across residential, commercial and industrial customers.
Where it sits in the stack
Contact Energy carries no seat in our index; it belongs to the Utilities sleeve of our universe, specifically the renewable-generation and retail-power corner rather than any AI build-out layer.
Who it is priced against
Closelook has not set a peer group for this name; the market's usual comparators are the other New Zealand generator-retailers, such as Meridian Energy.
Why Closelook tracks it
It holds no seat in Rubin or Halo, carries no Closelook score yet, and has not been quoted in any diary edition to date.
What the diary watches
Whether the balance between wholesale generation output and retail customer growth shifts as more renewable capacity, such as geothermal or battery storage, comes online.

Contact Energy Limited (CEN.AU) trades on the AU exchange in Australia, classified under Utilities.

The Closelook company score reads 41/100 composite (momentum 30, quality 41, valuation 46) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for CEN.AU, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Utilities - Renewable · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Utilities - Renewable

Names in the same industry from the Closelook universe; scored names rank on their Closelook score, the rest on trend state.

Compared against CEN.AU on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.58%, semi-annual · last 0.0279 AUD on 2026-08-17

Dividends and capital return

What CEN.AU pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 0.0414 AUD per share · a 0.58% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 2 distributions, paid twice a year 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year −3.7% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.0430 AUD per share
  • Last distribution 0.0279 AUD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-17
  • By calendar year 2025: 0.0430 AUD (partial) · 2026: 0.0414 AUD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-02-24
  • Dividends paid, FY2026 267 m AUD 88% of earnings
  • Share count +28.5% in FY2026
  • Capital returned 267 m AUD · 91% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sector × region Utilities in Asia-Pacific developed: −0.7% week · +10.4% month · +12.8% quarter · −0.6% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from 1627.TSE; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-16
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is Contact Energy Limited (CEN.AU)?

Contact Energy Limited trades as CEN.AU on the AU exchange (Australia) and is classified under Utilities in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is CEN.AU in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Contact Energy Limited is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-18.

What is Contact Energy Limited's Closelook composite score?

41 out of 100, with momentum 30, quality 41 and valuation 46 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-18. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does CEN.AU trade against its moving averages?

Downtrend stack: Trades -3.7% vs the 50-day and -8.2% vs the 200-day average, 16.9% below the 52-week high and +3.8% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Contact Energy Limited do?

Contact Energy generates and retails electricity in New Zealand, running hydro, geothermal, thermal and battery storage assets under a Wholesale segment that sells power to the grid and to industrial buyers. Its Retail segment supplies electricity, gas, broadband and mobile plans to households and businesses, and it offers ancillary services such as steam and geothermal well work. The company is based in Wellington and sells power across residential, commercial and industrial customers. Closelook has not set a peer group for this name; the market's usual comparators are the other New Zealand generator-retailers, such as Meridian Energy.

Where does Contact Energy Limited sit in the AI build-out?

Contact Energy carries no seat in our index; it belongs to the Utilities sleeve of our universe, specifically the renewable-generation and retail-power corner rather than any AI build-out layer. It holds no seat in Rubin or Halo, carries no Closelook score yet, and has not been quoted in any diary edition to date.

Does Contact Energy Limited pay a dividend?

Contact Energy Limited has paid 0.0414 AUD per share over the last twelve months, paid twice a year, a trailing yield of 0.58% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.0279 AUD on 2026-08-17. In fiscal 2026 the company paid 267 m AUD in dividends, 91% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count rose 28.5% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for CEN.AU, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Utilities - Renewable, then Utilities. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.