NRG Energy Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:NRG)

NRG Energy trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "NRG."

NRG Energy declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, October 17th. Shareholders of record on Friday, November 1st will be given a dividend of $0.03 per share on Friday, November 15th. This represents a $0.12 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.30%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, October 31st. View NRG Energy's Dividend History.

NRG Energy announced that its board has authorized a stock repurchase plan on Thursday, March 1st 2018, which authorizes the company to repurchase $1,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are typically a sign that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

NRG Energy Inc (NYSE:NRG) released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, August, 7th. The utilities provider reported $0.70 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.78 by $0.08. The utilities provider earned $2.47 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.52 billion. NRG Energy had a negative return on equity of 45.11% and a net margin of 6.20%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up .2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.31 EPS. View NRG Energy's Earnings History.

NRG Energy is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, November 14th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for NRG Energy.

6 brokers have issued twelve-month target prices for NRG Energy's shares. Their predictions range from $39.00 to $56.00. On average, they expect NRG Energy's stock price to reach $46.83 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 15.6% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for NRG Energy.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for NRG Energy in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings, 3 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for NRG Energy.

News articles about NRG stock have been trending negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. NRG Energy earned a news impact score of -2.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the utilities provider a news buzz of 5.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for NRG Energy.

NRG Energy saw a decline in short interest in the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 6,300,000 shares, a decline of 7.1% from the August 30th total of 6,780,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,690,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.3 days. Currently, 2.6% of the company's shares are sold short. View NRG Energy's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to NRG Energy include AES (AES), Ormat Technologies (ORA), Atlantic Power (AT), Genie Energy (GNE) and American DG Energy (ADGE).

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NRG Energy's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Artemis Investment Management LLP (0.27%), Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. (0.15%), Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI (0.08%), Pacer Advisors Inc. (0.04%), Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank (0.03%) and Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.03%). Company insiders that own NRG Energy stock include Barry T Smitherman, Christopher Moser, David Callen, Elizabeth R Killinger and Robert J Gaudette. View Institutional Ownership Trends for NRG Energy.

NRG stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of Alaska Department of Revenue, State of Michigan Retirement System, Oakbrook Investments LLC, Meeder Asset Management Inc., Wealthfront Advisers LLC, Crossmark Global Holdings Inc., Hennessy Advisors Inc. and 180 Wealth Advisors LLC. Company insiders that have sold NRG Energy company stock in the last year include Christopher Moser, David Callen and Robert J Gaudette. View Insider Buying and Selling for NRG Energy.

NRG stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Artemis Investment Management LLP, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Pacer Advisors Inc., Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL, Cognios Capital LLC, Convergence Investment Partners LLC, PGGM Investments and Moody National Bank Trust Division. View Insider Buying and Selling for NRG Energy.

Shares of NRG can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of NRG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $40.51.

NRG Energy has a market capitalization of $10.25 billion and generates $9.48 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $268 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.41 on an earnings per share basis. NRG Energy employs 4,862 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About NRG Energy.

The official website for NRG Energy is http://www.nrg.com/.

NRG Energy's mailing address is 804 CARNEGIE CENTER, PRINCETON NJ, 08540. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at 609-524-4500 or via email at [email protected]