Chesapeake Utilities Corporation (CPK)
Utilities · NYQ
Price as at 30 Sept 2026, 17:15 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation trades at $129.01, which is 26% below the $162.96 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a valuation model is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 54 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 21.4 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
CPK dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $2.15 | 3 |
| 2025 | $2.70 | 4 |
| 2024 | $2.51 | 4 |
| 2023 | $2.30 | 4 |
| 2022 | $2.09 | 4 |
| 2021 | $1.88 | 4 |
| 2020 | $1.72 | 4 |
| 2019 | $1.59 | 4 |
| 2018 | $1.44 | 4 |
| 2017 | $1.28 | 4 |
| 2016 | $1.20 | 4 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
CPK earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 6 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About Chesapeake Utilities Corporation
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation operates as an energy delivery company in the United States. It operates through two segments: Regulated Energy and Unregulated Energy. The Regulated Energy segment engages in the natural gas distribution operations in central and southern Delaware, Maryland's eastern shore, and Florida; regulated natural gas transmission in the Delmarva Peninsula, Ohio, and Florida; and regulated electric distribution in northeast and northwest Florida. Its Unregulated Energy segment is involved in the propane operations in the Mid-Atlantic region, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida; unregulated natural gas transmission/supply operation in central and eastern Ohio; generation of electricity and steam; provision of compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas, and renewable natural gas transportation and pipeline solutions primarily to utilities and pipelines in the United States; and sustainable energy investments. This segment also engages in the provision of other unregulated energy services, such as energy-related merchandise sale and heating, ventilation and air conditioning, and plumbing and electrical services. Chesapeake Utilities Corporation was founded in 1859 and is headquartered in Dover, Delaware.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
CPK passes 4 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
6 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$10.89M · 0.0% of book
- Renaissance Technologies, RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC$4.78M · 0.0% of book
- Ken Griffin, CITADEL ADVISORS LLC$4.11M · 0.0% of book
- D. E. Shaw, D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc.$710.6K · 0.0% of book
- Mario Gabelli, GAMCO INVESTORS, INC. ET AL$685.9K · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
CPK peers
The largest companies in the same industry (Utilities - Regulated Gas), then in the same sector.
- ATO Atmos Energy Corporation
- NI NiSource Inc.
- UGI UGI Corporation
- SWX Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc.
- OGS ONE Gas, Inc.
- BIPC Brookfield Infrastructure Corporation
- SPH Suburban Propane Partners, L.P.
- OPAL OPAL Fuels Inc.
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Common questions
Is Chesapeake Utilities Corporation (CPK) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $162.96, CPK at $129.01 is 26% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own CPK?
6 of the institutions we track reported a position in CPK in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is CPK's P/E ratio?
CPK trades at 21.4 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Does Chesapeake Utilities Corporation (CPK) pay a dividend?
Yes. Chesapeake Utilities Corporation yields 2.21% at the current share price. It has paid $2.84 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 39 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
Where does SteadyShares get its CPK data?
Fundamentals for CPK come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NYQ; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 30 Sept 2026, 17:15 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 100/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.