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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
AQN Algonquin Power & Utilities	$5.72 -1.2%	$5.66	$4.19 ▼ $6.36	$4.45B	0.69	8.67 million shs	8.00 million shs
BEP Brookfield Renewable Partners	$26.56 -0.3%	$24.53	$19.29 ▼ $29.56	$7.56B	0.99	575,579 shs	524,800 shs
CNP CenterPoint Energy	$36.21 +0.8%	$36.99	$25.41 ▼ $39.31	$23.46B	0.57	5.68 million shs	4.18 million shs
NRG NRG Energy	$158.63 +0.2%	$148.48	$65.11 ▼ $168.57	$30.97B	1.13	2.97 million shs	1.93 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
AQN Algonquin Power & Utilities	-1.40%	-0.17%	-2.39%	+25.44%	-4.98%
BEP Brookfield Renewable Partners	-0.13%	+4.20%	+10.76%	+32.03%	+4.57%
CNP CenterPoint Energy	+1.37%	-1.44%	-1.03%	+1.66%	+18.76%
NRG NRG Energy	-0.08%	-1.22%	+1.73%	+85.08%	+105.59%

Compare MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
AQN Algonquin Power & Utilities	4.532 of 5 stars	3.0	5.0	1.7	3.8	2.5	1.7	0.6
BEP Brookfield Renewable Partners	2.5166 of 5 stars	1.5	5.0	1.7	0.0	2.6	1.7	1.3
CNP CenterPoint Energy	4.0207 of 5 stars	2.2	3.0	3.3	1.4	3.0	1.7	1.3
NRG NRG Energy	4.3538 of 5 stars	2.5	3.0	2.5	0.5	2.8	2.5	2.5

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
AQN Algonquin Power & Utilities	2.00	Hold	$6.31	10.36% Upside
BEP Brookfield Renewable Partners	3.00	Buy	$29.13	9.66% Upside
CNP CenterPoint Energy	2.36	Hold	$36.04	-0.46% Downside
NRG NRG Energy	2.90	Moderate Buy	$151.80	-4.31% Downside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest CNP, AQN, NRG, and BEP Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
6/26/2025	NRG NRG Energy	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Set Price Target	Overweight	$197.00
6/26/2025	NRG NRG Energy	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Overweight	$197.00
6/13/2025	NRG NRG Energy	Raymond James Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Market Perform ➝ Strong-Buy	$195.00
6/8/2025	AQN Algonquin Power & Utilities	National Bank Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Hold
6/8/2025	BEP Brookfield Renewable Partners	National Bank Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Strong-Buy
6/4/2025	AQN Algonquin Power & Utilities	TD Securities Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Hold ➝ Hold	$6.00 ➝ $6.50
6/4/2025	AQN Algonquin Power & Utilities	National Bankshares Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Outperform ➝ Sector Perform	$6.75
6/4/2025	AQN Algonquin Power & Utilities	Desjardins Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Hold	$4.75 ➝ $6.00
6/4/2025	AQN Algonquin Power & Utilities	Raymond James Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Market Perform	$5.00 ➝ $6.00
6/4/2025	AQN Algonquin Power & Utilities	CIBC Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$5.75 ➝ $6.25
6/4/2025	AQN Algonquin Power & Utilities	Scotiabank Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Sector Perform ➝ Sector Perform	$6.00 ➝ $6.50

(Data available from 7/8/2022 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
AQN Algonquin Power & Utilities	$2.32B	1.89	$0.91 per share	6.27	$7.81 per share	0.73
BEP Brookfield Renewable Partners	$5.88B	1.28	$6.99 per share	3.80	$125.61 per share	0.21
CNP CenterPoint Energy	$8.64B	2.73	$3.84 per share	9.44	$16.37 per share	2.21
NRG NRG Energy	$28.13B	1.10	$15.61 per share	10.16	$9.02 per share	17.59

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
AQN Algonquin Power & Utilities	-$1.38B	-$1.55	N/A	18.45	N/A	-48.78%	4.74%	1.73%	8/8/2025 (Estimated)
BEP Brookfield Renewable Partners	-$181M	-$1.01	N/A	N/A	N/A	-0.79%	-0.15%	-0.06%	8/1/2025 (Estimated)
CNP CenterPoint Energy	$1.02B	$1.49	24.30	19.36	2.64	10.80%	9.74%	2.41%	7/29/2025 (Estimated)
NRG NRG Energy	$1.13B	$6.20	25.59	16.22	1.26	4.66%	73.78%	6.59%	8/6/2025 (Estimated)

Latest CNP, AQN, NRG, and BEP Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
8/1/2025	Q2 2025	BEP Brookfield Renewable Partners	-$0.29	N/A	N/A	N/A	$1.64 billion	N/A
7/29/2025	Q2 2025	CNP CenterPoint Energy	$0.44	N/A	N/A	N/A	$2.20 billion	N/A
5/12/2025	Q1 2025	NRG NRG Energy	$0.72	$2.62	+$1.90	$3.61	$8.28 billion	$8.59 billion
5/9/2025	Q1 2025	AQN Algonquin Power & Utilities	$0.09	$0.14	+$0.05	$0.12	$699.08 million	$692.40 million
5/2/2025	Q1 2025	BEP Brookfield Renewable Partners	-$0.26	-$0.35	-$0.09	-$0.35	$1.73 billion	$907.00 million
4/24/2025	Q1 2025	CNP CenterPoint Energy	$0.55	$0.53	-$0.02	$0.45	$2.73 billion	$2.92 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
AQN Algonquin Power & Utilities	$0.26	4.55%	N/A	N/A	N/A
BEP Brookfield Renewable Partners	$1.49	5.61%	N/A	N/A	2 Years
CNP CenterPoint Energy	$0.88	2.43%	N/A	59.06%	5 Years
NRG NRG Energy	$1.76	1.11%	N/A	28.39%	1 Years

Latest CNP, AQN, NRG, and BEP Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
5/9/2025	AQN Algonquin Power & Utilities	quarterly	$0.0650	4.75%	6/30/2025	6/30/2025	7/15/2025
5/5/2025	BEP Brookfield Renewable Partners	quarterly	$0.3730	6.7%	5/30/2025	5/30/2025	6/30/2025
4/16/2025	CNP CenterPoint Energy	quarterly	$0.22	2.39%	5/15/2025	5/15/2025	6/12/2025
4/9/2025	NRG NRG Energy	quarterly	$0.44	1.8%	5/1/2025	5/1/2025	5/15/2025

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
AQN Algonquin Power & Utilities	1.21	1.16	0.94
BEP Brookfield Renewable Partners	0.90	0.51	0.51
CNP CenterPoint Energy	1.86	0.93	0.79
NRG NRG Energy	4.61	1.06	1.02

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
AQN Algonquin Power & Utilities	62.28%
BEP Brookfield Renewable Partners	63.16%
CNP CenterPoint Energy	91.77%
NRG NRG Energy	97.72%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
AQN Algonquin Power & Utilities	0.05%
BEP Brookfield Renewable Partners	N/A
CNP CenterPoint Energy	0.14%
NRG NRG Energy	0.61%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
AQN Algonquin Power & Utilities	3,786	767.88 million	767.49 million	Not Optionable
BEP Brookfield Renewable Partners	5,270	283.76 million	N/A	Optionable
CNP CenterPoint Energy	8,872	652.73 million	651.81 million	Optionable
NRG NRG Energy	15,637	195.51 million	194.32 million	Optionable

CNP, AQN, NRG, and BEP Headlines

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CNP, AQN, NRG, and BEP Company Descriptions

Algonquin Power & Utilities NYSE:AQN

$5.72 -0.07 (-1.21%)

As of 07/7/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. is an investment holding company, which engages in energy generation and water distribution facilities. It operates through the Regulated Services Group and Renewable Energy Group segments. The Regulated Services Group segment owns and operates a portfolio of electric, natural gas, water distribution, and wastewater collection utility systems and transmission. The Renewable Energy Group segment focuses on operating a diversified portfolio of renewable and thermal electric generation assets. The company was founded on August 1, 1988 and is headquartered in Oakville, Canada.

Brookfield Renewable Partners NYSE:BEP

$26.56 -0.08 (-0.30%)

Closing price 07/7/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$26.53 -0.03 (-0.12%)

As of 07/7/2025 06:40 PM Eastern

Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. owns a portfolio of renewable power generating facilities primarily in North America, Colombia, and Brazil. The company generates electricity through hydroelectric, wind, solar, distributed generation, and pumped storage, as well as renewable natural gas, carbon capture and storage, recycling, cogeneration biomass, nuclear services, and power transformation. Brookfield Renewable Partners Limited operates as the general partner of Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. The company was formerly known as Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners L.P. and changed its name to Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. in May 2016. Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. was founded in 1999 and is based in Toronto, Canada. Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P operates as a subsidiary of Brookfield Corporation.

CenterPoint Energy NYSE:CNP

$36.21 +0.27 (+0.75%)

Closing price 07/7/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$36.23 +0.02 (+0.06%)

As of 07/7/2025 07:26 PM Eastern

CenterPoint Energy, Inc. operates as a public utility holding company in the United States. The company operates through two segments, Electric and Natural Gas. The Electric segment includes electric transmission and distribution services to electric customers and electric generation assets, as well as optimizes assets in the wholesale power market. The Natural Gas segment engages in the intrastate natural gas sales, and natural gas transportation and distribution for residential, commercial, industrial and institutional customers in Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Ohio, and Texas; permanent pipeline connections through interconnects with various interstate and intrastate pipeline companies; and provides maintenance and repair services of home appliances to customers in Minnesota and home repair protection plans to natural gas customers in Indiana, Mississippi, Ohio, and Texas through a third party. It serves approximately 2,534,730 metered customers; owned 348 substations with transformer capacity of 79,719 megavolt amperes; and owned and operated 217 miles of intrastate pipeline in Louisiana and Texas. The company was founded in 1866 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

NRG Energy NYSE:NRG

$158.63 +0.24 (+0.15%)

Closing price 07/7/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$159.81 +1.18 (+0.74%)

As of 07/7/2025 08:00 PM 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.

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