NYSE:NRG - NRG Energy Stock Price, Price Target & More

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

NRG Energy announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, April 19th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, May 1st will be given a dividend of $0.03 per share on Tuesday, May 15th. This represents a $0.12 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.39%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, April 30th. View NRG Energy's Dividend History.

NRG Energy announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a share buyback plan on Thursday, March 1st 2018, which permits the company to repurchase $1,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are typically an indication that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

NRG Energy Inc (NYSE:NRG) issued its earnings results on Thursday, May, 3rd. The utilities provider reported $0.87 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.14 by $0.73. The utilities provider earned $2.42 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.08 billion. NRG Energy had a positive return on equity of 26.42% and a negative net margin of 16.04%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 1.6% compared to the same quarter last year. View NRG Energy's Earnings History.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year target prices for NRG Energy's shares. Their forecasts range from $27.00 to $37.00. On average, they anticipate NRG Energy's share price to reach $32.50 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for NRG Energy.

NRG Energy saw a increase in short interest in May. As of May 31st, there was short interest totalling 21,452,154 shares, an increase of 62.7% from the May 15th total of 13,188,258 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 5,180,532 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 4.1 days. Currently, 7.1% of the company's stock are sold short. View NRG Energy's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to NRG Energy include American Electric Power (AEP), CLP (CLPHY), Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNABY), Edison International (EIX), PPL (PPL), Korea Electric Power (KEP), SSE PLC/S (SSEZY), DTE Energy (DTE), Eversource Energy (ES), FirstEnergy (FE), Avangrid (AGR), Entergy (ETR), EDP-Energias de Portugal, S.A (EDPFY), Fortis (FTS) and Vistra Energy (VST).

News stories about NRG stock have trended somewhat positive on Sunday, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than twenty million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. NRG Energy earned a news impact score of 0.17 on Accern's scale. They also gave news articles about the utilities provider an impact score of 46.34 out of 100, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days.

NRG Energy's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (5.74%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.74%), Prudential Financial Inc. (1.37%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (1.32%), Northern Trust Corp (0.99%) and Neuberger Berman Group LLC (0.95%). Company insiders that own NRG Energy stock include Barry T Smitherman and John C Wilder Jr. View Institutional Ownership Trends for NRG Energy.

NRG stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including UBS Group AG, Neuberger Berman Group LLC, OppenheimerFunds Inc., Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Zimmer Partners LP, Verition Fund Management LLC and State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D. View Insider Buying and Selling for NRG Energy.

NRG stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including MD Sass Investors Services Inc., Russell Investments Group Ltd., A.R.T. Advisors LLC, Mackay Shields LLC, Wexford Capital LP, Trexquant Investment LP, American Century Companies Inc. and Cobalt Capital Management Inc.. Company insiders that have bought NRG Energy stock in the last two years include Barry T Smitherman and John C Wilder Jr. 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of NRG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $31.02.

NRG Energy has a market capitalization of $10.04 billion and generates $10.63 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $-2,153,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $1.09 on an earnings per share basis. NRG Energy employs 5,940 workers across the globe.

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]