Company Analysis

Black Hills Corporation (BKH)

NYSE: BKH · Electric Services · Rapid City, SD · filing with the SEC since 2000
Grade5.0
◀ Past 6.1● Present 4.8▶ Future 4.3

The grade of Black Hills Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.0/10
◀ Past6.125% of the headline
● Present4.845% of the headline
▶ Future4.330% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

6.1/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
6.6/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 45% of this tense · 66th percentile among 59 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Black Hills Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
4.2/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+4.6% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 22% of this tense · 42nd percentile among 51 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Black Hills Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.5 billion in fiscal 2016 to $2.3 billion in fiscal 2025, up 4.6% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 17% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span4.6%bottom 38% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 21% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 17% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak16.6%bottom 26% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
6.6/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count steady. 23% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 2 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 66th percentile among 39 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Black Hills Corporation's diluted share count held steady, and dividends and buybacks returned about 23% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 2 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 23% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 45% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

4.8/1045% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
4.6/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 8%: 8¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 65%: owes 65¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 46th percentile among 53 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Black Hills Corporation earned about 8 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 65 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 4.7% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 37% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 46% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 27% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
3.9/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 39% of 52 in its family; net margin 13%.

weight 33% of this tense · 39th percentile among 52 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Black Hills Corporation's standing among 52 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.3 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 37% by size; a net margin of 13% ranks in the top 36%; revenue growth of -3.3% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 14% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$2.31Bbottom 37% of its family
  • net margin13.0%top 36% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-3.3%bottom 14% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
6.7/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 33% of 30 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2019.

weight 22% of this tense · 67th percentile among 30 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Black Hills Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Evans, Linden R (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2019-02-05, 7.8 years (top 20% of its family); the 15 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.1 years (top 42%); 5 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 15 people in charge now (top 38%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge5 in three years among 15 peopletop 38% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed6.1 yearstop 42% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record7.8 yearstop 20% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.3/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
2.9/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 29% of 47 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 29th percentile among 47 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Black Hills Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $183 million against debt of $4.7 billion leaves -41.6% of its assets as net cash, bottom 18% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -6.3% of revenue (bottom 39%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-41.6%bottom 18% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue-6.3%bottom 39% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
3.7/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 37% of 51 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 37th percentile among 51 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Black Hills Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -3.3% a year over the last three filed years against 4.6% over all 10, slowing (bottom 15% of its family); the newest year grew 8.6% (top 44%); capital spending grew 10.7% a year (bottom 39%) (its annual reports). Black Hills Corporation reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Reportable Segment Aggregation Before Other Operating at $2.3 billion, Gas Utilities at $1.4 billion, Electric Utilities at $943 million. 3 of 3 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 50% of revenue (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-7.9 points a yearbottom 15% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth8.6%top 44% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending10.7%bottom 39% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
6.2/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

top 38% of 49 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 62nd percentile among 49 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Black Hills Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.3 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 18.9% above the $1.9 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 5% of its family); net income of $300 million against a prior three-year average of $277 million (bottom 38%); a net margin of 13% against 11.9% before (top 46%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace18.9%top 5% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+8%bottom 38% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average+1.1 pointstop 46% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton BKH · research, not advice