• Wondering if Sempra at around US$91.57 is offering fair value or if you are paying up for recent momentum? This article breaks down what the current price might really mean for you.
• The stock has seen mixed moves recently, with a 3.7% decline over the last week and a 7.0% decline over the last month, while still showing returns of 2.1% year to date, 24.5% over 1 year, 31.2% over 3 years and 55.7% over 5 years.
• Recent attention on Sempra has been driven by ongoing interest in utilities that combine regulated operations with exposure to energy infrastructure. Many investors look for a balance between income and potential capital appreciation. Broader sector discussions around power grid resilience and long term energy demand have also kept the stock on many watchlists.
• Despite this backdrop, Sempra currently has a valuation score of 0 out of 6. The rest of this article will walk through traditional valuation tools like P/E, cash flow based models and peer comparisons, and then finish with a way to think about valuation that goes beyond the usual checklists.

Sempra scores just 0/6 on our valuation checks. See what other red flags we found in the full valuation breakdown.

Approach 1: Sempra Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Analysis

A Discounted Cash Flow, or DCF, model takes projections of a company’s future cash flows and discounts them back to today’s dollars to estimate what the business might be worth now.

For Sempra, the model used is a 2 Stage Free Cash Flow to Equity approach. The latest twelve month free cash flow is a loss of about $4.38b. Looking ahead, analyst and extrapolated estimates point to free cash flow of $5.80b in 2026 and $5.69b in 2027, then $1.72b by 2028. Beyond that, Simply Wall St extrapolates smaller cash flows through 2035, all expressed in $.

When all these projected cash flows are discounted back and added together, the DCF model points to an estimated intrinsic value of about $22.41 per share. Compared with the recent share price of about $91.57, the DCF output suggests the stock is trading at a significantly higher price than this estimate of intrinsic value, with an implied overvaluation of around 308.6%.

Result: OVERVALUED

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Approach 2: Sempra Price vs Earnings (P/E)

For a profitable company, the P/E ratio is a straightforward way to think about what you are paying for each dollar of earnings. A higher P/E often reflects higher expected growth or lower perceived risk, while a lower P/E can point to lower growth expectations or higher risk.

Sempra currently trades on a P/E of about 31.05x. This compares with an Integrated Utilities industry average P/E of around 18.53x and a peer average of roughly 19.37x. On these simple comparisons, the stock trades on a higher multiple than many industry peers.

Simply Wall St also applies a proprietary “Fair Ratio” framework, which estimates what a more tailored P/E might be once factors like earnings growth, profit margins, industry, market cap and company specific risks are considered together. For Sempra, this Fair Ratio is 28.65x. Because this is lower than the current 31.05x P/E by more than a small margin, the preferred multiple comparison points to the stock trading above what this framework suggests as a fair level.

Result: OVERVALUED

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Upgrade Your Decision Making: Choose your Sempra Narrative

Earlier we mentioned that there is an even better way to understand valuation, and on Simply Wall St that comes through Narratives. In a Narrative you set out your story for Sempra, link it to specific assumptions about future revenue, earnings and margins, and let the platform turn that story into a forecast and a fair value that you can compare with the current share price. Each Narrative lives on the Community page, updating automatically as new news or earnings are added, and allowing different investors to sit anywhere on the spectrum from a more cautious view that might sit closer to the US$93 analyst target through to a more optimistic stance nearer US$118. You can then decide which story fits your own expectations and use that to think about when the price looks high or low relative to your chosen fair value.

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This article by Simply Wall St is general in nature. We provide commentary based on historical data and analyst forecasts only using an unbiased methodology and our articles are not intended to be financial advice. It does not constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any stock, and does not take account of your objectives, or your financial situation. We aim to bring you long-term focused analysis driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis may not factor in the latest price-sensitive company announcements or qualitative material. Simply Wall St has no position in any stocks mentioned.