Compare Stocks: HVII, HVIIU, VST, and NRG

Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
HVII Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII	$10.51 -0.1%	$10.45	$10.13 ▼ $10.99	N/A	N/A	54,102 shs	5,552 shs
HVIIU Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII	$10.70 -0.9%	$10.80	$10.40 ▼ $14.00	N/A	N/A	569 shs	N/A
NRG NRG Energy	$121.13 +3.5%	$134.84	$112.50 ▼ $189.96	$24.69B	1.22	2.85 million shs	6.12 million shs
VST Vistra	$140.95 -1.6%	$155.72	$132.66 ▼ $219.82	$48.29B	1.41	4.52 million shs	6.07 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
HVII Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII	-0.13%	+0.29%	+0.54%	+0.86%	+1,050,999,900.00%
HVIIU Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII	-0.93%	0.00%	-3.86%	-0.97%	+1.81%
NRG NRG Energy	+3.77%	-2.28%	-14.10%	-14.50%	-29.58%
VST Vistra	-1.74%	-1.29%	-10.36%	-8.51%	-32.69%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
HVII Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII	$10.51 -0.1%	$10.45	$10.13 ▼ $10.99	N/A	N/A	54,102 shs	5,552 shs
HVIIU Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII	$10.70 -0.9%	$10.80	$10.40 ▼ $14.00	N/A	N/A	569 shs	N/A
NRG NRG Energy	$121.13 +3.5%	$134.84	$112.50 ▼ $189.96	$24.69B	1.22	2.85 million shs	6.12 million shs
VST Vistra	$140.95 -1.6%	$155.72	$132.66 ▼ $219.82	$48.29B	1.41	4.52 million shs	6.07 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
HVII Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII	-0.13%	+0.29%	+0.54%	+0.86%	+1,050,999,900.00%
HVIIU Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII	-0.93%	0.00%	-3.86%	-0.97%	+1.81%
NRG NRG Energy	+3.77%	-2.28%	-14.10%	-14.50%	-29.58%
VST Vistra	-1.74%	-1.29%	-10.36%	-8.51%	-32.69%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
HVII Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII	2.00	Hold	N/A	N/A
HVIIU Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII	0.00	N/A	N/A	N/A
NRG NRG Energy	2.80	Moderate Buy	$199.29	64.52% Upside
VST Vistra	3.12	Buy	$229.88	63.09% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest HVII, HVIIU, VST, and NRG Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
8/5/2026	NRG NRG Energy	Evercore Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Outperform	$195.00
8/5/2026	NRG NRG Energy	Scotiabank Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Sector Outperform	$226.00 ➝ $211.00
8/3/2026	NRG NRG Energy	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Hold (C) ➝ Hold (C-)
7/31/2026	VST Vistra	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Hold (C) ➝ Hold (C+)
7/28/2026	NRG NRG Energy	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy	$221.00 ➝ $216.00
7/28/2026	VST Vistra	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy	$233.00 ➝ $227.00
7/28/2026	NRG NRG Energy	BMO Capital Markets Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Market Perform	$213.00 ➝ $212.00
7/28/2026	NRG NRG Energy	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight	$200.00 ➝ $204.00
7/28/2026	VST Vistra	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight	$208.00 ➝ $212.00
7/27/2026	VST Vistra	TD Cowen Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy	$230.00 ➝ $222.00
7/22/2026	VST Vistra	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Overweight

(Data available from 8/6/2023 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
HVII Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
HVIIU Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
NRG NRG Energy	$33.13B	0.77	$16.35 per share	7.41	$19.93 per share	6.08
VST Vistra	$17.74B	2.68	$14.40 per share	9.79	$7.77 per share	18.14

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
HVII Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
HVIIU Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
NRG NRG Energy	$864M	$3.78	32.05	10.42	N/A	2.56%	52.95%	4.29%	N/A
VST Vistra	$944M	$5.97	23.61	13.00	N/A	11.52%	105.64%	7.22%	8/7/2026 (Estimated)

Latest HVII, HVIIU, VST, and NRG Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
8/7/2026	Q2 2026	VST Vistra	$2.43	N/A	N/A	N/A	$5.46 billion	N/A
8/4/2026	Q2 2026	NRG NRG Energy	$1.69	$1.49	-$0.20	$2.31	$7.31 billion	$7.48 billion
5/13/2026	Q1 2026	HVII Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII	N/A	$0.02	N/A	$0.02	N/A	N/A
5/7/2026	Q1 2026	VST Vistra	$1.32	$2.87	+$1.55	$2.87	$5.22 billion	$5.64 billion
5/6/2026	Q1 2026	NRG NRG Energy	$1.78	$1.48	-$0.30	$0.52	$8.43 billion	$10.26 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	5-Year Annualized Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
HVII Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
HVIIU Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
NRG NRG Energy	$1.90	1.57%	+7.96%	50.26%	1 Years
VST Vistra	$0.92	0.65%	+10.76%	15.41%	6 Years

Latest HVII, HVIIU, VST, and NRG Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
7/29/2026	VST Vistra	quarterly	$0.23	0.64%	9/21/2026	9/21/2026	9/30/2026
7/22/2026	NRG NRG Energy	quarterly	$0.4750	1.37%	8/3/2026	8/3/2026	8/17/2026

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
HVII Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII	N/A	N/A	N/A
HVIIU Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII	N/A	N/A	N/A
NRG NRG Energy	5.17	0.97	0.78
VST Vistra	5.51	0.90	0.79

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
HVII Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII	N/A
HVIIU Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII	N/A
NRG NRG Energy	97.72%
VST Vistra	90.88%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
HVII Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII	N/A
HVIIU Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII	N/A
NRG NRG Energy	0.43%
VST Vistra	0.92%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
HVII Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
HVIIU Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
NRG NRG Energy	16,702	210.99 million	210.08 million	Optionable
VST Vistra	6,390	337.18 million	334.08 million	Optionable

HVII, HVIIU, VST, and NRG Headlines

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Vistra (NYSE:VST) in Focus as Data-Center Power Demand Climbs

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CX Institutional Increases Stake in Vistra Corp. $VST

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Vistra (NYSE:VST) Shares Down 8% - Should You Sell?

August 4 at 5:19 PM | marketbeat.com

Vistra (NYSE:VST) Trading Down 5.4% - Time to Sell?

August 4 at 12:59 PM | marketbeat.com

Pine Valley Investments Ltd Liability Co Has $1.72 Million Stock Position in Vistra Corp. $VST

August 4 at 5:27 AM | marketbeat.com

Segall Bryant & Hamill LLC Buys Shares of 27,162 Vistra Corp. $VST

August 4 at 5:12 AM | marketbeat.com

Lazard Asset Management LLC Acquires 9,112 Shares of Vistra Corp. $VST

August 4 at 4:55 AM | marketbeat.com

Vistra (NYSE:VST) Trading Up 5.2% - Still a Buy?

August 3 at 5:39 PM | marketbeat.com

Vistra gains as AI-power optimism and earnings anticipation lift the stock

August 3 at 1:51 PM | quiverquant.comQ

Why Is Vistra (NYSE:VST) Being Closely Watched?

August 3 at 6:52 AM | kalkinemedia.comK

Vistra Corp. $VST is Sapient Capital LLC's 9th Largest Position

August 3 at 6:15 AM | marketbeat.com

Wealth High Governance Capital Ltda Buys Shares of 70,132 Vistra Corp. $VST

August 3 at 6:08 AM | marketbeat.com

Wealth High Governance Asset Management Ltda. Invests $8.98 Million in Vistra Corp. $VST

August 3 at 6:08 AM | marketbeat.com

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August 2, 2026 | 247wallst.com

Quantinno Capital Management LP Increases Stock Position in Vistra Corp. $VST

August 2, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Vistra Corp. $VST Shares Sold by Bank of America Corp DE

August 2, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Vistra (NYSE:VST) Shares Up 3.9% After Dividend Announcement

August 1, 2026 | americanbankingnews.com

Vistra Corp. (VST) Earnings Expected to Grow: What to Know Ahead of Next Week's Release

July 31, 2026 | finance.yahoo.com

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HVII, HVIIU, VST, and NRG Company Descriptions

Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII NASDAQ:HVII

$10.51 -0.01 (-0.10%)

Closing price 08/5/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$10.52 +0.01 (+0.05%)

As of 08/5/2026 07:34 PM Eastern

We are a newly organized blank check company incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company on September 27, 2024 for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses, which we refer to throughout this prospectus as our initial business combination. We have not selected any specific business combination target and we have not, nor has anyone on our behalf, initiated any substantive discussions, directly or indirectly, with any business combination target with respect to an initial business combination with us. However, our management team engaged in discussions with potential business combination partners in their capacity as officers of Hennessy VI, and we may pursue potential business combination partners that had previously been in discussions with Hennessy VI’s management team. While we may pursue an acquisition opportunity in any business, industry, sector or geographical location, we intend to focus on industries that complement our management team’s background, and to capitalize on the ability of our management team to identify and acquire a business, focusing on the industrial technology and energy transition sectors. We will seek to acquire one or more businesses with an expected aggregate enterprise value of $500 million or greater. Since 2014, our management team has announced, completed, or otherwise served as an advisor to 13 different business combinations with early- to late-stage industrial products and services companies, industrial technology and energy transition companies on six continents. Our management team is one of the most experienced SPAC sponsors and is a leader in the SPAC asset class. Our executive offices are located at 195 US Hwy 50, Suite 309, Zephyr Cove, Nevada.

Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII NASDAQ:HVIIU

$10.70 -0.10 (-0.93%)

Closing price 08/5/2026 03:07 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$10.82 +0.12 (+1.11%)

As of 08/5/2026 04:03 PM Eastern

NRG Energy NYSE:NRG

$121.13 +4.09 (+3.50%)

Closing price 08/5/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$121.10 -0.03 (-0.03%)

As of 06:17 AM Eastern

NRG Energy, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an energy and home services company in the United States and Canada. It operates through Texas; East; West/Services/Other; Vivint Smart Home; and Corporate Activities segments. The company produces and sells electricity generated using coal, oil, solar, and battery storage; natural gas; and a cloud-based home platform, including hardware, software, sales, installation, customer service, technical support, and professional monitoring solutions. It offers retail electricity and energy management, line and surge protection products, HVAC installation, repair and maintenance, home protection products, carbon offsets, back-up power stations, portable power, portable solar, and portable lighting; retail services comprising demand response, commodity sales, energy efficiency, and energy management solutions; and system power, distributed generation, renewable and low-carbon products, carbon management and specialty services, backup generation, storage and distributed solar, and energy advisory services. In addition, the company trades in power, natural gas, and related commodities; environmental products; weather products; and financial products, including forwards, futures, options, and swaps. It offers its products and services under the NRG, Reliant, Direct Energy, Green Mountain Energy, and Vivint. It serves residential, commercial, government, industrial, and wholesale customers. NRG Energy, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Vistra NYSE:VST

$140.95 -2.28 (-1.59%)

Closing price 08/5/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$141.40 +0.45 (+0.32%)

As of 06:28 AM Eastern

Vistra Corp., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated retail electricity and power generation company. The company operates through six segments: Retail, Texas, East, West, Sunset, and Asset Closure. It retails electricity and natural gas to residential, commercial, and industrial customers across states in the United States and the District of Columbia. In addition, the company is involved in the electricity generation, wholesale energy purchases and sales, commodity risk management, fuel production, and fuel logistics management activities. It serves approximately 4 million customers with a generation capacity of approximately 37,000 megawatts with a portfolio of natural gas, nuclear, coal, solar, and battery energy storage facilities. The company was formerly known as Vistra Energy Corp. and changed its name to Vistra Corp. in July 2020. Vistra Corp. was founded in 1882 and is based in Irving, Texas.

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Latest HVII, HVIIU, VST, and NRG Analyst Ratings

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HVII, HVIIU, VST, and NRG Company Descriptions

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