{"id":78794,"date":"2026-02-19T14:30:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/british-gas-owner-pauses-share-buyback-as-profits-plummet\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T14:30:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:00:49","slug":"british-gas-owner-pauses-share-buyback-as-profits-plummet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/british-gas-owner-pauses-share-buyback-as-profits-plummet\/","title":{"rendered":"British Gas owner pauses share buyback as profits plummet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f251111625f554ae023f6e62517fb11a33e5f535\/8_0_4997_4000\/master\/4997.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=a146f4f17d4299e76def3056b984577a\" alt=\"British Gas owner pauses share buyback as profits plummet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">British Gas owner pauses share buyback as profits plummet<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Drop of almost 39% for Centrica comes after mild weather meant households used less gas and electricityBusiness live \u2013 latest updatesThe owner of British Gas has paused its plan to buy back shares from shareholders after the company\u2019s full-year profits slumped by almost 39%.Centrica reported adjusted earnings of \u00a31.42bn for 2025, down from \u00a32.3bn the year before, after a \u201cchallenging\u201d year for the business as it undertakes a series of multibillion-pound investments. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/feb\/19\/british-gas-owner-centrica-pauses-share-buyback-profits-plummet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts British Gas owner pauses share buyback as profits plummet Drop of almost 39% for Centrica comes after mild weather meant households used less gas and electricityBusiness live \u2013 latest updatesThe owner of British Gas has paused its plan to buy back shares from shareholders after the company\u2019s full-year profits slumped by almost 39%.Centrica [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":78795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}