Chesapeake Utilities (CPK)

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Chesapeake Utilities' 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).

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Chesapeake Utilities' 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $499 million in fiscal 2016 to $930 million in fiscal 2025, up 7.2% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 10% from fiscal 2016 to fiscal 2017; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Chesapeake Utilities' diluted share count grew about 9.7% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 23% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 14 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Chesapeake Utilities earned about 9 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 60 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 4.2% over the year (the filed statements).

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Chesapeake Utilities' standing among 16 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $930 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 47% by size; a net margin of 15.1% ranks in the top 16%; revenue growth of 11% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 34% (its annual reports).

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Chesapeake Utilities' leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Householder, Jeffry M (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2025-02-28, 1.7 years (bottom 17% of its family); the 15 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 7.5 years (top 39%); 4 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 15 people in charge now (top 16%; 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.

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Chesapeake Utilities' room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $2 million against debt of $1.5 billion leaves -36.5% of its assets as net cash, bottom 25% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -23.1% of revenue (bottom 30%) (its annual report).

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Chesapeake Utilities' growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 11% a year over the last three filed years against 7.2% over all 10, speeding up (top 16% of its family); the newest year grew 18.2% (top 9%); capital spending grew 51.8% a year (top 26%) (its annual reports). Chesapeake Utilities reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Regulated Energy at $686 million, Unregulated Energy at $244 million, All Other at $200 thousand. 2 of 3 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 74% of revenue (its annual report).

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Chesapeake Utilities' newest year against its own record: revenue of $930 million in fiscal 2025 came in 9.9% above the $847 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 34% of its family); net income of $140 million against a prior three-year average of $99 million (top 32%); a net margin of 15.1% against 13.8% before (top 28%) (its annual reports).