Sempra (SRE)

Over the past six months, Sempra's stock price has underperformed the S&P 500 Index. Specific events impacting the stock price include analyst downgrades in February-March 2025, the Q4 2024 Earnings Report on February 25, 2025, a dividend declaration on May 15, 2025, Port Arthur LNG Phase 2 Authorization on May 29, 2025, Oncor Q1 2025 Results on May 8, 2025, and stock price fluctuations in June 2025.

Demand for Sempra's natural gas and electricity products and services exhibits seasonality. The natural gas distribution business is seasonal, with revenues generally increasing during the winter heating months. Electricity demand tends to increase in the summer and winter months. Sempra's utility businesses face competition from distributed and local power generation, including renewable energy sources, and third-party energy storage alternatives.

Sempra is a North American energy infrastructure company headquartered in San Diego, California, operating as an energy services holding company. Its business is structured around three core segments: Sempra California, which provides natural gas and electric services; Sempra Texas Utilities, which includes its investment in Oncor; and Sempra Infrastructure, which develops and invests in energy infrastructure assets.

Sempra's expansive footprint covers North America's largest economies, including California, Texas, Louisiana, and Mexico. The company also has a presence in global LNG markets. Historically, Sempra's operations and services have extended to the United States, Europe, Canada, Mexico, South America, and Asia.

Sempra has maintained a strong brand reputation, being recognized among the "World's Most Admired Companies" by Fortune Magazine for the 13th consecutive year in 2023. Sempra was also included as the No. 1 ESG Utility Leader by Investor's Business Daily, among the Wall Street Journal's Best-Managed Companies, America's Most JUST Companies, Newsweek's Most Responsible Companies, and on the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index. No specific negative events significantly impacting Sempra's brand reputation in the past year were found in the provided search results.

Sempra's ownership is primarily institutional, with 86.16% held by institutional shareholders, 0.77% by Sempra insiders, and 13.08% by retail investors. Major institutional owners include Vanguard Group Inc, BlackRock, Inc., Capital International Investors, Wellington Management Group Llp, and State Street Corp. Individual owners are not explicitly detailed as major shareholders, but insider transactions are tracked.