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Earnings call · FY2025 Q4

Entergy Louisiana, LLC Q4 FY2025 Earnings Call

Entergy Louisiana, LLC Q4 FY2025 Earnings Call

Concluded Feb 12, 2026
Feb 12, 2026 41 turns
Period
FY2025 Q4
Runtime
Sources
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Executive readout · one minute

What matters this quarter

Entergy reported 2025 adjusted EPS of $3.91, in the top half of its guidance range, driven by 4% sales growth and continued data center and industrial demand, while reaffirming greater than 8% adjusted EPS annual growth through 2029 and initiating 2026 guidance.

Industrial and Data Center Sales Growth 25 Capital Plan and Generation Build-out 22 Regulatory and Political Backlash Risk 20 Reliability, Nuclear and Energy Delivery Investment 19 Data Center Contract Structure and Counterparty Risk 12 Customer Affordability and Rate Management 10

Management tone

Confident

Net tone +62 · low hedging

Grounding quotes
  • “We are reporting 2025 adjusted earnings per share of $3.91, which is in the top half of our guidance range.”
  • “We anticipate the sales growth trend to accelerate an expected 8% compound annual growth rate through 2029 from 2025 and driven by 15% industrial growth.”
  • “These are just a few examples of how data center growth is enhancing Entergy's efforts to support customers and communities every day.”
  • “we are experiencing very favorable momentum from both customers and communities regarding data centers.”

Forward guidance

8 guided metrics

Management's latest ranges and targets are included below.

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Key takeaways

What improved, and what deserves a closer read.

Constructive signals

  • 2025 adjusted EPS of $3.91 landed in the top half of guidance range
  • 4% sales growth in 2025, with industrial sales up 7%, and an expected 8% CAGR through 2029 driven by 15% industrial growth
  • Signed electric service agreements totaling approximately 3.5 gigawatts in 2025, with pipeline of 7-12 GW data centers and 3-5 GW other industries unchanged
  • Hyundai Steel announced $5.8 billion investment in Louisiana; new data center announcements in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi
  • $8 billion invested in 2025 as part of a $43 billion 4-year capital plan, with nearly 9 GW of generation approved and under construction
  • Nuclear fleet achieved 90% unit capability factor; 35+ MW of additional clean capacity from upgrades

Risks & pressure points

  • Concerns about affordability and rates persist in the regions despite data center growth benefits
  • Meta contract structure raised investor questions about the 4-year subcontract terms with Blue Owl versus the 15-year electric service agreement, creating potential perception risk
  • Q4 2025 EPS of 51 cents on an as-reported and adjusted basis, with no specific growth figure highlighted for the quarter

Forward guidance

From the 8-K filed Feb 12, 2026.

Metric Guided
Adjusted earnings per share
2026
$4.25 – $4.45

Guidance from the call

Stated verbally and extracted from the transcript.

Metric Guided
Sales growth compound annual growth rate
through 2029 from 2025
8%
Industrial growth
through 2029
15%
Retail sales compound annual growth
through 2029
8%
Customer-first capital plan
2026 through 2029
$43B
Capital plan
2026
$11.6B
Equity associated with 4-year plan
2026 through 2029
$4.4B
Hybrids
back half of the forecast
$1B

Quarter detail

How the reported period landed and where the business moved.

Capital returned

Dividend / share
$0.31
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