# PG&E (PCG.US)

Canonical: https://gigainvestors.com/s/PCG

Analysis as of: 2026-10-16T07:31:05.907Z. Financial observations: FY1996–FY2026.

Listing currency: USD. Reporting currency: USD.

## Verdict

Not a wonderful business

Quality tests for Buy: not passed (profit record: fail; earnings resilience is evidence only). Published buy qualification: no.

Share price: $12.96 per share; close as of 2026-10-15.

## Checklist

### understandable: fail

- 3 revenue declines in the last 10 years (informational)

- more than 2 net loss years

- Financial history: 10 years

- Years with declining revenue: 3

- Years with a net loss: 4

- Operating margin variation: 0.26×

Chart: Operating margin; fiscal year observations.

- FY2017: 0.17×

- FY2018: 0.14×

- FY2019: 0.09×

- FY2020: 0.11×

- FY2021: 0.10×

- FY2022: 0.12×

- FY2023: 0.16×

- FY2024: 0.18×

- FY2025: 0.20×

- LTM to Jun 2026: 0.20×

### moat: fail

- ROIC median below threshold

- ROIC worst years below threshold (more than 1 bad year allowed)

- ROIC, median of available years: 5.0%

- ROIC, second-lowest year: 2.5%

- Typical minus recent gross margin: -4.5 pp

- Typical gross margin (annual median): 15.1%

- Recent gross margin (lower of latest and 3-year median): 19.6%

- Years with nonpositive capital: 0

- Capital spending / revenue: 39.3%

- ROIC including acquisitions, ten-year median: -2.2%

Chart: ROIC excluding acquisitions; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: 7.7%

- FY2017: 6.0%

- FY2018: 5.5%

- FY2019: 4.1%

- FY2020: 2.5%

- FY2021: 2.1%

- FY2022: 3.5%

- FY2023: 4.9%

- FY2024: 5.1%

- FY2025: 5.2%

### economics: fail

- owner earnings cash conversion below threshold

- incremental invested capital return below threshold

- working capital as a share of revenue rose more than 10pp and ends positive

- Owner earnings / net income, 5-yr: -0.34×

- Cash conversion uses consolidated totals: No

- Owner earnings, five-year total: -$3.1B

- Net income, five-year total: $9.2B

- Return on incremental invested capital: 5.1%

- Working capital / revenue, annual change: 2.2 pp

- Working capital / revenue, change between three-year averages: 16.5 pp

- Working capital / revenue, final three-year average: 39.4%

Chart: Annual owner cash / profit; fiscal year observations.

- FY2021: 1.00×

- FY2022: 0.16×

- FY2023: 1.00×

- FY2024: -1.31×

- FY2025: -0.83×

### management: fail

- Historical market-dollar context (not the management verdict): 2016 to 2025 (9 years)

- buybacks unrelated to price (informational)

- ROIC first 3 years vs last 3 years: 6.0% vs 5.1%

- Per-share earnings: 2.81 to 1.17 (three-year endpoint medians)

- per-share value declined or ends nonpositive

- five-year and ten-year diluted share growth both above threshold

- Management verdict uses per-share economic progress: Yes

- Ordinary dilution, 10-year annual growth: 16.3%

- Ordinary dilution, 5-year annual growth: 11.9%

- Market cap gain: $4.5B

- Cumulative retained earnings: -$6.4B

- Diluted shares, 10-year annual growth: 16.3%

- Diluted shares, 5-year annual growth: 11.9%

- $1 test, starting fiscal year: FY2016

- $1 test, ending fiscal year: FY2025

- Per-share value growth: -10.4%

- Per-share value change: -$1.64

- Per-share value, starting three-year median: $2.81

- Per-share value, ending three-year median: $1.17

- Buyback history: 0 years

- Debt-funded buybacks: No

- Acquisition spending: $0

- Cumulative net income, 10 years: -$3.5B

- ROIC, first three-year median: 6.0%

- ROIC, last three-year median: 5.1%

Chart: Earnings per share; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: $2.81

- FY2017: $3.24

- FY2018: -$13.22

- FY2019: -$14.47

- FY2020: -$1.04

- FY2021: -$0.04

- FY2022: $0.85

- FY2023: $1.06

- FY2024: $1.17

- FY2025: $1.23

### accounting: pass

- Sloan accruals: -4.2%

- Receivables to sales index (DSRI): 0.90×

- Restructuring years, last five: 2

- Stock compensation / operating cash flow: 0.0%

- Earnings backed by cash: Yes

- Operating cash / earnings: 3.22×

- Accounting red flags: 0

- Goodwill and intangibles / equity: 0.00×

Chart: Sloan accruals; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: -4.4%

- FY2017: -6.3%

- FY2018: -15.1%

- FY2019: -14.6%

- FY2020: 18.2%

- FY2021: -2.3%

- FY2022: -1.6%

- FY2023: -2.0%

- FY2024: -4.1%

- FY2025: -4.2%

## Holders

- [Steven Romick](https://gigainvestors.com/FPA): tracked 13F investor; follow the investor page for holding quarter and amounts.

- [David Einhorn](https://gigainvestors.com/GLRE): tracked 13F investor; follow the investor page for holding quarter and amounts.

## Price story

Down 40% since Nov 2024 · "* Revenue of $5.89B (-1.7% Y/Y) misses by $350M." (seekingalpha.com, Jul 2025) · sales +3.6%

Story as of 2026-10-16T09:59:22.617Z; price observation 2026-10-15.

### Sales · FY2025–2026

sales +3.6%; source https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1004980/000100498026000009/pcg-20251231.htm; observed 2026-02-12.

- FY2017: $17B 

- FY2018: $17B 

- FY2019: $17B 

- FY2020: $18B 

- FY2021: $21B 

- FY2022: $22B 

- FY2023: $24B 

- FY2024: $24B 

- FY2025: $25B 

- FY2026: $26B 

### Gross margin · FY2025

gross margin 19.6%; source https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1004980/000100498026000009/pcg-20251231.htm; observed 2026-02-12.

- FY2016: 16.4% 

- FY2017: 17.4% 

- FY2018: 13.8% 

- FY2019: 8.7% 

- FY2020: 10.9% 

- FY2021: 10.4% 

- FY2022: 12.4% 

- FY2023: 16.4% 

- FY2024: 37.5% 

- FY2025: 19.6% 

## Owner memo

Memo as of 2026-10-16T08:06:05.509Z.

### How it makes money

Operates in utilities regulated electric; annual sales are USD 24.9 billion.

- Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1004980/000100498026000009/pcg-20251231.htm (filed 2026-02-12); FY2025: revenue 24935000000; grossProfit 4884000000; margin = grossProfit / revenue.

### Why customers stay

Margins ranged from 16.4% to 37.5% during 2023–25; it earns 5% on its capital.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-02-12); FY2023: grossProfit / revenue = 16.4%.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-02-12); FY2024: grossProfit / revenue = 37.5%.

- Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1004980/000100498026000009/pcg-20251231.htm (filed 2026-02-12); FY2025: grossProfit / revenue = 19.6%.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-02-12); 10-year return on capital observations [[2016,0.07688620764024855],[2017,0.06018140297444486],[2018,0.055465486403734804],[2019,0.04103217950947991],[2020,0.025106382978723404],[2021,0.021041928118904697],[2022,0.035463056011001214],[2023,0.0487228810051377],[2024,0.0509297331871345],[2025,0.05242480839827397]]; median 0.0498263070961361. ROIC follows the displayed moat series; financial companies use return on tangible equity.

### Where the cash goes

Paid dividends in 4 of 10 years.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-02-12); FY2016: growth capex 2224042247.265087; upkeep 3484957752.734913; owner earnings 677042247.2650871. Growth capex / owner earnings = 3.2849386522762916.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-02-12); FY2022: growth capex 3720002116.932724; upkeep 5863997883.067276; owner earnings 283002116.932724. Growth capex / owner earnings = 13.144785478113764.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-02-12); FY2023: growth capex 5409000000; upkeep 4305000000; owner earnings 2256000000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 2.3976063829787235.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-02-12); Dividend observations: [[2016,921000000],[2017,1021000000],[2018,0],[2019,0],[2020,0],[2021,0],[2022,0],[2023,0],[2024,86000000],[2025,317000000]]. Zero only counted when supported by a complete cash-flow statement.

### Are managers owners

Insiders own 0.4% of the company.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); PCG.US SharesStats.PercentInsiders = 0.35100000000000003 percentage points; cache date 2026-10-16.

### What could break it

"The Utility may not effectively implement its wildfire mitigation initiatives." (SEC filing, Feb 2026)

- Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1004980/000100498026000009/pcg-20251231.htm (filed 2026-02-12); The Utility may not effectively implement its wildfire mitigation initiatives.

### What the price says

The price is 1.1 times annual sales; cash earnings are negative.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-02-12); Closing price 12.96 USD; reporting-to-trading FX 1; FY2025 annual sales per share 11.323796548592188; price multiple 1.144492480449168. FY2025 cash earnings/share -1.0207605417115102. Closing-price date 2026-10-15.

## Monthly share-price history (USD per share)

- 2016-10: $62.12 per share

- 2016-11: $58.80 per share

- 2016-12: $60.77 per share

- 2017-01: $61.89 per share

- 2017-02: $66.75 per share

- 2017-03: $66.36 per share

- 2017-04: $67.05 per share

- 2017-05: $68.38 per share

- 2017-06: $66.37 per share

- 2017-07: $67.69 per share

- 2017-08: $70.38 per share

- 2017-09: $68.09 per share

- 2017-10: $57.77 per share

- 2017-11: $54.24 per share

- 2017-12: $44.83 per share

- 2018-01: $42.43 per share

- 2018-02: $41.09 per share

- 2018-03: $43.93 per share

- 2018-04: $46.10 per share

- 2018-05: $43.33 per share

- 2018-06: $42.56 per share

- 2018-07: $43.08 per share

- 2018-08: $46.18 per share

- 2018-09: $46.01 per share

- 2018-10: $46.81 per share

- 2018-11: $26.38 per share

- 2018-12: $23.75 per share

- 2019-01: $13.00 per share

- 2019-02: $17.03 per share

- 2019-03: $17.80 per share

- 2019-04: $22.52 per share

- 2019-05: $17.10 per share

- 2019-06: $22.92 per share

- 2019-07: $18.13 per share

- 2019-08: $10.45 per share

- 2019-09: $10.00 per share

- 2019-10: $6.17 per share

- 2019-11: $7.46 per share

- 2019-12: $10.87 per share

- 2020-01: $15.21 per share

- 2020-02: $15.50 per share

- 2020-03: $8.99 per share

- 2020-04: $10.64 per share

- 2020-05: $11.86 per share

- 2020-06: $8.87 per share

- 2020-07: $9.35 per share

- 2020-08: $9.26 per share

- 2020-09: $9.39 per share

- 2020-10: $9.56 per share

- 2020-11: $12.70 per share

- 2020-12: $12.46 per share

- 2021-01: $11.43 per share

- 2021-02: $10.51 per share

- 2021-03: $11.71 per share

- 2021-04: $11.32 per share

- 2021-05: $10.14 per share

- 2021-06: $10.17 per share

- 2021-07: $8.79 per share

- 2021-08: $9.17 per share

- 2021-09: $9.60 per share

- 2021-10: $11.60 per share

- 2021-11: $11.88 per share

- 2021-12: $12.14 per share

- 2022-01: $12.79 per share

- 2022-02: $11.37 per share

- 2022-03: $11.94 per share

- 2022-04: $12.65 per share

- 2022-05: $12.20 per share

- 2022-06: $9.98 per share

- 2022-07: $10.86 per share

- 2022-08: $12.33 per share

- 2022-09: $12.50 per share

- 2022-10: $14.93 per share

- 2022-11: $15.70 per share

- 2022-12: $16.26 per share

- 2023-01: $15.90 per share

- 2023-02: $15.62 per share

- 2023-03: $16.17 per share

- 2023-04: $17.11 per share

- 2023-05: $16.94 per share

- 2023-06: $17.28 per share

- 2023-07: $17.61 per share

- 2023-08: $16.30 per share

- 2023-09: $16.13 per share

- 2023-10: $16.30 per share

- 2023-11: $17.17 per share

- 2023-12: $18.03 per share

- 2024-01: $16.87 per share

- 2024-02: $16.69 per share

- 2024-03: $16.76 per share

- 2024-04: $17.11 per share

- 2024-05: $18.54 per share

- 2024-06: $17.46 per share

- 2024-07: $18.25 per share

- 2024-08: $19.70 per share

- 2024-09: $19.77 per share

- 2024-10: $20.22 per share

- 2024-11: $21.63 per share

- 2024-12: $20.18 per share

- 2025-01: $15.65 per share

- 2025-02: $16.34 per share

- 2025-03: $17.18 per share

- 2025-04: $16.52 per share

- 2025-05: $16.88 per share

- 2025-06: $13.94 per share

- 2025-07: $14.02 per share

- 2025-08: $15.28 per share

- 2025-09: $15.08 per share

- 2025-10: $15.96 per share

- 2025-11: $16.12 per share

- 2025-12: $16.07 per share

- 2026-01: $15.42 per share

- 2026-02: $19.00 per share

- 2026-03: $17.57 per share

- 2026-04: $16.62 per share

- 2026-05: $16.34 per share

- 2026-06: $16.82 per share

- 2026-07: $17.38 per share

- 2026-08: $13.27 per share

- 2026-09: $12.25 per share

- 2026-10: $13.33 per share

## Annual estimated value (USD per share)

Historical values use today's bond yield for every fiscal year

Historical values use today's FX rate into trading currency for every fiscal year

Historical values use current restated fundamentals and current commodity classification; they are not point-in-time estimates

Prior published observations retained from 2026-10-15T06:36:50.443Z where newer inputs omit a numeric field or fiscal period.

## Sources

[Original 10-K filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1004980/000100498026000009/pcg-20251231.htm); period 2025-12-31, filed 2026-02-12.

Estimates depend on assumptions and are not guarantees or investment advice. Underlying data remains subject to its source licenses; public reading does not grant bulk redistribution rights.