CMS Energy Limitation on payment of stock dividends increased by 3.4% to $9.20B in Q1 2026 compared to the prior quarter. Year-over-year, this metric grew by 13.6%, from $8.10B to $9.20B. Over 4 years (FY 2021 to FY 2025), Limitation on payment of stock dividends shows an upward trend with a 8.6% CAGR. This is a positive signal — higher values indicate stronger performance for this metric.
Higher availability indicates greater financial flexibility to return capital to shareholders.
This represents the portion of equity or retained earnings that is legally or contractually available for distribution t...
Critical for regulated utilities where dividend policy is often constrained by regulatory or debt covenants.
other_amount_available_for_dividend_distribution| Q2 '21 | Q3 '21 | Q4 '21 | Q1 '22 | Q2 '22 | Q3 '22 | Q4 '22 | Q1 '23 | Q2 '23 | Q3 '23 | Q4 '23 | Q1 '24 | Q2 '24 | Q3 '24 | Q4 '24 | Q1 '25 | Q2 '25 | Q3 '25 | Q4 '25 | Q1 '26 | |
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| Value | $5.80B | $5.90B | $6.40B | $6.60B | $6.60B | $6.70B | $6.80B | $6.80B | $6.90B | $7.00B | $7.30B | $7.70B | $7.80B | $7.90B | $8.00B | $8.10B | $8.20B | $8.60B | $8.90B | $9.20B |
| QoQ Change | — | +1.7% | +8.5% | +3.1% | +0.0% | +1.5% | +1.5% | +0.0% | +1.5% | +1.4% | +4.3% | +5.5% | +1.3% | +1.3% | +1.3% | +1.3% | +1.2% | +4.9% | +3.5% | +3.4% |
| YoY Change | — | — | — | — | +13.8% | +13.6% | +6.3% | +3.0% | +4.5% | +4.5% | +7.4% | +13.2% | +13.0% | +12.9% | +9.6% | +5.2% | +5.1% | +8.9% | +11.3% | +13.6% |