PG&E Corporation Reports Solid 2025 Results, Tightens 2026 Earnings Guidance
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PG&E Corporation (NYSE: PCG) reported 2025 GAAP EPS of $1.18 and non-GAAP core EPS of $1.50, and tightened 2026 non-GAAP core EPS guidance to $1.64–$1.66. The company cut non-fuel O&M by 2.5%, advanced ~3.6 GW of data center projects into final engineering, and continued wildfire mitigation progress.
Operational highlights include a third consecutive year with zero major wildfires caused by utility equipment, 334 miles of undergrounded lines completed in 2025, and residential electric rates down 11% since January 2024.
Positive
- Non-GAAP core EPS of $1.50 for 2025
- Tightened 2026 guidance to $1.64–$1.66 per share
- O&M costs reduced by 2.5% in 2025
- 334 miles of powerlines undergrounded in 2025
- Zero major wildfires caused by utility equipment in 2023–2025
Negative
- Non-core items totaled $714 million after tax in 2025
- Lower return on equity reduced GAAP EPS drivers in 2025
- Dilution from 2024 equity offering impacted EPS
- Cost disallowances from the 2023 WMCE decision affected results
Market Reaction
Following this news, PCG has gained 4.01%, reflecting a moderate positive market reaction. Our momentum scanner has triggered 11 alerts so far, indicating notable trading interest and price volatility. The stock is currently trading at $17.78. This price movement has added approximately $1.51B to the company's valuation.
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PCG gained 2.09% as several regulated electric peers also traded higher (ED, WEC, DTE, PEG), while ETR was slightly negative. Momentum scanners did not flag a broad sector move, suggesting the earnings and guidance update were the primary driver.
Historical Context
| Date | Event | Sentiment | Move | Catalyst |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 09 | Safety advisory | Neutral | -0.3% | Customer warning on metallic balloons causing outages and safety issues. |
| Feb 09 | RNG partnership | Positive | -0.3% | New dairy biomethane RNG interconnection supporting emissions-reduction goals. |
| Feb 05 | Community support | Positive | +0.7% | Support for Super Schools initiative expanding meals and activity for students. |
| Feb 05 | Electrification program | Positive | +0.3% | SPAN collaboration to cut panel-upgrade costs and enable home electrification. |
| Feb 03 | Scholarship awards | Positive | +1.7% | College scholarships and financial education support for Oakland-area seniors. |
Recent headlines have been mostly operational or community-focused, with generally modest positive price alignment and only one divergence on environmentally positive partnership news.
Over the past weeks, PCG news has centered on safety, community programs, and clean energy initiatives. Items ranged from public safety reminders about metallic balloons affecting power reliability to a renewable natural gas interconnection and home electrification collaboration. Community support stories, such as school nutrition and scholarship programs, often coincided with small positive moves. Today’s earnings and guidance update adds a financial-performance layer on top of this operational and ESG-focused narrative.
Market Pulse Summary
This announcement highlights PCG’s 2025 performance, with GAAP EPS of $1.18 and non-GAAP core EPS of $1.50, both above 2024 levels, and a tightened 2026 non-GAAP core EPS guidance range of $1.64–$1.66. Management emphasized O&M efficiencies, including a 2.5% non-fuel O&M reduction and over $700 million redeployed over four years, alongside 11% lower residential electric rates. Investors may track future cost trends, wildfire-related items, and execution against the revised guidance.
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- GAAP earnings were
and$0.29 per share for the fourth quarter and full year 2025, respectively, compared to$1.18 and$0.30 for the same periods in 2024.$1.15 - Non-GAAP core earnings were
and$0.36 per share for the fourth quarter and full year 2025, respectively, compared to$1.50 and$0.31 per share for the same periods in 2024.$1.36 - Tightening 2026 non-GAAP core EPS guidance to
to$1.64 per share versus$1.66 to$1.62 per share previously.[1]$1.66 - Amplifying the Simple Affordable Model, targeting customer bill inflation of 0
-3% versus 2-4% previously. - Reduced non-fuel operating and maintenance (O&M) costs in 2025 by
2.5% . - Continued redeployment of O&M savings, bringing cumulative four-year total to over
.$700 million - Advanced 2 gigawatts (GW) of data center projects into final engineering since third quarter update, with approximately 3.6 GW now in final engineering.
Operational progress during 2025 continued to focus on delivering safe, reliable, affordable, and clean energy to customers. Pacific Gas and Electric Company (the Utility):
- Delivered the fourth reduction in residential bundled electric rates in two years with natural gas rates also going down. Combined with previous decreases, residential electric rates are
11% lower than in January 2024. - Achieved a third consecutive year of zero major wildfires caused by the Utility's equipment.
- Completed 334 miles of undergrounded powerlines and installed 207 miles of strengthened poles and covered powerlines in high wildfire-risk areas. Since 2021, the Utility has buried over 1,210 miles of powerlines, nearly eliminating wildfire risk for those lines and improving reliability for customers.
- Delivered over
99% reliability for natural gas customers and improved systemwide reliability for electric customers by19% compared to 2024. - Connected over 12,730 electric customers and over 18,750 new electric vehicle charging ports to the Utility's grid. New load growth in the years ahead can help reduce electricity prices for all customers.
"In 2025, our PG&E team made real progress delivering safe, reliable, affordable, and clean energy to customers. We lowered electric prices four times in two years—bucking a national trend—and we achieved a third consecutive year of preventing major wildfires. We also know we're not done yet. Safety, reliability, and affordability will continue to be at the heart of every decision we make," said PG&E Corporation CEO Patti Poppe.
[1] PG&E Corporation is unable to provide GAAP guidance or present a quantitative reconciliation of forward-looking non-GAAP core earnings, non-GAAP core EPS, or non-GAAP core EPS growth without unreasonable effort because specific line items, which may be significant, are not estimable. For instance, amortization of the Wildfire Fund contribution asset, the impacts of regulatory decisions, special tax items, and wildfire-related costs, net of recoveries, are difficult to predict due to various factors outside of management's control. | |||
2026 Guidance
PG&E Corporation is tightening its full year 2026 non-GAAP core earnings guidance to the range of
PG&E Corporation uses "non-GAAP core earnings," which is a non-GAAP financial measure, in order to provide a measure that allows investors to compare the underlying financial performance of the business from one period to another, exclusive of non-core items. See the accompanying tables for a reconciliation of non-GAAP core earnings (including non-GAAP core EPS) to consolidated earnings available for common shareholders.
Financial Results
PG&E Corporation recorded annual income available for common shareholders of
GAAP EPS were primarily driven by an increase in customer capital investment and net O&M savings, partially offset by a lower return on equity in effect during 2025 as compared to 2024, the dilutive impact of PG&E Corporation's 2024 equity offering, cost disallowances in the recent 2023 Wildfire Mitigation and Catastrophic Events (WMCE) decision, increased wildfire-related claims, net of recoveries, and Wildfire Fund expense.
Non-GAAP Core Earnings
PG&E Corporation's non-GAAP core earnings, which exclude non-core items, were
Non-GAAP core EPS were driven by an increase in customer capital investment and net O&M savings, partially offset by a lower return on equity in effect during 2025 as compared to 2024, and the dilutive impact of PG&E Corporation's 2024 equity offering.
Non-core items, which management does not consider representative of ongoing earnings, totaled
Supplemental Financial Information
In addition to the financial information accompanying this release, presentation slides have been furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and are available on PG&E Corporation's website at: http://investor.pgecorp.com/financials/quarterly-earnings-reports/default.aspx.
Earnings Conference Call
PG&E Corporation will also hold a conference call on February 12, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time (8:00 a.m. Pacific Time) to discuss its fourth quarter and full year 2025 results. The public can access the conference call through a simultaneous webcast. The link is provided below and will also be available from the PG&E Corporation website.
What: Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Earnings Call
When: Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time
Where: http://investor.pgecorp.com/news-events/events-and-presentations/default.aspx
A replay of the conference call will be archived at
http://investor.pgecorp.com/news-events/events-and-presentations/default.aspx
Alternatively, a toll-free replay of the conference call may be accessed shortly after the live call through February 19, 2026, by dialing (800) 770-2030. The confirmation code 92587 will be required to access the replay.
Public Dissemination of Certain Information
PG&E Corporation and the Utility routinely provide links to the Utility's principal regulatory proceedings with the California Public Utilities Commission and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission at http://investor.pgecorp.com, under the "Regulatory Filings" tab, so that such filings are available to investors upon filing with the relevant agency. PG&E Corporation and the Utility also routinely post, or provide direct links to, presentations, documents, and other information that may be of interest to investors at http://investor.pgecorp.com, under the "Wildfire and Safety Updates" and "News & Events: Events & Presentations" tabs, respectively, in order to publicly disseminate such information. It is possible that any of these filings or information included therein could be deemed to be material information.
About PG&E Corporation
PG&E Corporation (NYSE: PCG) is a holding company headquartered in
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements that are not historical facts, including statements about the beliefs, expectations, guidance, estimates, future plans, and strategies of PG&E Corporation and the Utility, including regarding earnings, customer bills, operating and maintenance costs, and load growth. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions, which management believes are reasonable, and on information currently available to management, but are necessarily subject to various risks and uncertainties. In addition to the risk that these assumptions prove to be inaccurate, factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements include factors disclosed in PG&E Corporation's and the Utility's joint Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 (the "Form-10-K") and other reports filed with the SEC, which is available on PG&E Corporation's website at www.pgecorp.com and on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. PG&E Corporation and the Utility undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether due to new information, future events or otherwise, except to the extent required by law.
PG&E CORPORATION | ||||||||||
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME | ||||||||||
(in millions, except per share amounts) | ||||||||||
Year ended December 31, | ||||||||||
2025 | 2024 | 2023 | ||||||||
Operating Revenues | ||||||||||
Electric | $ 18,318 | $ 17,811 | $ 17,424 | |||||||
Natural gas | 6,617 | 6,608 | 7,004 | |||||||
Total operating revenues | 24,935 | 24,419 | 24,428 | |||||||
Operating Expenses | ||||||||||
Cost of electricity | 2,609 | 2,261 | 2,443 | |||||||
Cost of natural gas | 1,107 | 1,192 | 1,754 | |||||||
Operating and maintenance | 11,349 | 11,808 | 11,924 | |||||||
SB 901 securitization charges, net | 35 | 33 | 1,267 | |||||||
Wildfire-related claims, net of recoveries | 100 | 94 | 64 | |||||||
Wildfire Fund expense | 352 | 383 | 567 | |||||||
Depreciation, amortization, and decommissioning | 4,634 | 4,189 | 3,738 | |||||||
Total operating expenses | 20,186 | 19,960 | 21,757 | |||||||
Operating Income | 4,749 | 4,459 | 2,671 | |||||||
Interest income | 520 | 604 | 606 | |||||||
Interest expense | (3,028) | (3,051) | (2,850) | |||||||
Other income, net | 182 | 300 | 272 | |||||||
Income Before Income Taxes | 2,423 | 2,312 | 699 | |||||||
Income tax benefit | (280) | (200) | (1,557) | |||||||
Net Income | 2,703 | 2,512 | 2,256 | |||||||
Preferred stock dividend requirement | 110 | 37 | 14 | |||||||
Income Available for Common Shareholders | $ 2,593 | $ 2,475 | $ 2,242 | |||||||
Weighted Average Common Shares Outstanding, Basic | 2,197 | 2,141 | 2,064 | |||||||
Weighted Average Common Shares Outstanding, Diluted | 2,202 | 2,147 | 2,138 | |||||||
Net Income Per Common Share, Basic | $ 1.18 | $ 1.16 | $ 1.09 | |||||||
Net Income Per Common Share, Diluted | $ 1.18 | $ 1.15 | $ 1.05 | |||||||
Reconciliation of PG&E Corporation's Consolidated Earnings Available for Common Shareholders in Accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("GAAP") to Non-GAAP Core Earnings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fourth Quarter and Full Year, 2025 vs. 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Three Months Ended December 31, | Year Ended December 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Earnings | Earnings per | Earnings | Earnings per | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(in millions, except per share amounts) | 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
PG&E Corporation's GAAP earnings/EPS, diluted | $ 642 | $ 647 | $ 2,593 | $ 2,475 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Non-core items: (1) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Amortization of Wildfire Fund contribution (2) | 58 | 63 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 253 | 276 | 0.11 | 0.13 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bankruptcy and legal costs (3) | 6 | 2 | — | — | 41 | 35 | 0.02 | 0.02 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Investigation remedies (4) | 16 | 14 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 112 | 55 | 0.05 | 0.03 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Prior period net regulatory impact (5) | 68 | 45 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 190 | 28 | 0.09 | 0.01 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
SB 901 securitization (6) | (3) | (7) | — | — | 26 | 24 | 0.01 | 0.01 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
StanPac settlement (7) | — | 84 | — | 0.04 | — | 84 | — | 0.04 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Tax-related adjustments (8) | (5) | (213) | — | (0.10) | (5) | (143) | — | (0.07) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Wildfire-related costs, net of recoveries (9) | 5 | 22 | — | 0.01 | 97 | 89 | 0.04 | 0.04 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
PG&E Corporation's non-GAAP core earnings/EPS (10) | $ 787 | $ 658 | $ 3,307 | $ 2,923 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All amounts presented in the table above and footnotes below are tax adjusted at PG&E Corporation's statutory tax rate of | |
(1) | "Non-core items" include items that management does not consider representative of ongoing earnings and affect comparability of financial results between periods, consisting of the items listed in the table above. See Non-GAAP Financial Measures below. |
(2) | The Utility recorded costs of |
(3) | PG&E Corporation and the Utility recorded costs of |
(4) | Includes costs associated with the decision different for the order instituting investigation ("OII") related to the 2017 Northern California Wildfires and 2018 Camp Fire ("Wildfires OII"), the system enhancements related to the locate and mark OII, restoration and rebuilding costs for the town of Paradise, and the settlement agreement resolving the Safety and Enforcement Division's investigation into the 2020 Zogg fire, as shown below. |
(in millions) | Three Months Ended | Year Ended | |
Wildfires OII disallowance and system enhancements | $ 7 | $ 40 | |
Locate and mark OII system enhancements | — | 1 | |
Paradise restoration and rebuild | (1) | 2 | |
2020 Zogg fire settlement | 8 | 74 | |
Investigation remedies | $ 14 | $ 117 | |
Tax impacts | 2 | (6) | |
Investigation remedies (post-tax) | $ 16 | $ 112 |
(5) | Includes adjustments to expenses (revenues) associated with the recovery of capital expenditures from 2011 through 2014 above amounts adopted in the 2011 GT&S rate case per the CPUC decision dated July 14, 2022, the 2022 WMCE decision dated September 18, 2025, and the 2023 WMCE decision dated February 5, 2026 as well as adjustments to interest associated with transmission right of way (TROW) costs incurred between 2017 and 2024 as shown below. |
(in millions) | Three Months Ended | Year Ended | |
2011 GT&S rate case | $ — | $ (19) | |
TROW adjustment | $ (59) | $ (59) | |
2022 WMCE decision | — | 188 | |
2023 WMCE decision | 153 | 153 | |
Prior period net regulatory impact | $ 94 | $ 263 | |
Tax impacts | (26) | (73) | |
Prior period net regulatory impact (post-tax) | $ 68 | $ 190 |
(6) | The Utility recorded benefits of |
(7) | Includes probable costs to resolve legacy gas transportation issues related to its affiliate Standard Pacific Gas Line Incorporated. |
(8) | The Utility recorded tax benefits of |
(9) | Includes costs to resolve third-party claims, net of recoveries, for the 2019 Kincade fire and 2021 Dixie fire, inclusive of outside counsel fees, as shown below. |
(in millions) | Three Months Ended | Year Ended | |
2019 Kincade fire | $ 1 | $ 117 | |
2021 Dixie fire | 6 | 18 | |
Wildfire-related costs, net of recoveries | $ 7 | $ 135 | |
Tax impacts | (2) | (38) | |
Wildfire-related costs, net of recoveries (post-tax) | $ 5 | $ 97 |
(10) | "Non-GAAP core earnings" and "Non-GAAP core EPS" are non-GAAP financial measures. See Non-GAAP Financial Measures below. |
Undefined, capitalized terms have the meanings set forth in PG&E Corporation's and the Utility's joint Annual Report on Form 10-K. | |
Non-GAAP Financial Measures PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric Company |
Non-GAAP Core Earnings and Non-GAAP Core EPS
"Non-GAAP core earnings" and "Non-GAAP core EPS," also referred to as "non-GAAP core earnings per share," are non-GAAP financial measures. Non-GAAP core earnings is calculated as income available for common shareholders, diluted, less non-core items. "Non-core items" include items that management does not consider representative of ongoing earnings and affect comparability of financial results between periods, consisting of the items listed above. Non-GAAP core EPS is calculated as non-GAAP core earnings divided by common shares outstanding on a diluted basis.
PG&E Corporation discloses historical financial results and provides guidance based on "non-GAAP core earnings" and "non-GAAP core EPS" in order to provide measures that allow investors to compare the underlying financial performance of the business from one period to another, exclusive of non-core items. PG&E Corporation and the Utility use non-GAAP core earnings and non-GAAP core EPS to understand and compare operating results across reporting periods for various purposes including internal budgeting and forecasting, short- and long-term operating planning, and employee incentive compensation. PG&E Corporation and the Utility believe that non-GAAP core earnings and non-GAAP core EPS provide additional insight into the underlying trends of the business, allowing for a better comparison against historical results and expectations for future performance.
Non-GAAP core earnings and non-GAAP core EPS are not substitutes or alternatives for GAAP measures such as consolidated income available for common shareholders and may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies.
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