On Thursday, May 9, 2019, gas and electric utility CenterPoint Energy (CNP) announced its first-quarter 2019 earnings results. At first glance, these results appeared to be quite disappointing as the company failed to meet the expectations of its analysts on either the top or the bottom lines. However, utilities in general tend to be reasonably stable entities, and we do see this reflected in the firm's results. As is sometimes the case with utilities though, especially gas utilities, CenterPoint Energy did blame the weather for missing its guidance. Overall though, this was