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 Wednesday, July 18th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, August 1st will be given a dividend of $0.03 per share on Wednesday, August 15th. This represents a $0.12 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.37%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, July 31st. View NRG Energy's Dividend History.

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

NRG Energy Inc (NYSE:NRG) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May, 3rd. The utilities provider reported $0.87 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.14 by $0.73. The utilities provider earned $2.42 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.08 billion. NRG Energy had a positive return on equity of 26.42% and a negative net margin of 16.04%. NRG Energy's revenue for the quarter was up 1.6% on a year-over-year basis. View NRG Energy's Earnings History.

3 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price targets for NRG Energy's shares. Their predictions range from $29.00 to $37.00. On average, they expect NRG Energy's stock price to reach $34.3333 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 6.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Ratings for NRG Energy.

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

NRG Energy saw a drop in short interest in June. As of June 29th, there was short interest totalling 11,690,622 shares, a drop of 36.4% from the June 15th total of 18,386,248 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 6,472,545 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.8 days. Approximately 3.9% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View NRG Energy's Current Options Chain.

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

Headlines about NRG stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than twenty million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. NRG Energy earned a media sentiment score of 0.24 on Accern's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the utilities provider an impact score of 44.90 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the immediate future.

NRG Energy's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.55%), Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.35%), Bank of Montreal Can (0.10%), Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.10%), James Investment Research Inc. (0.10%) and Dorsey Wright & Associates (0.04%). 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 Bank of Montreal Can, Hennessy Advisors Inc., Hartford Investment Management Co., Washington Trust Bank, Fox Run Management L.L.C., Ledyard National Bank, CenterStar Asset Management LLC and Retirement Systems of Alabama. View Insider Buying and Selling for NRG Energy.

NRG stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Assenagon Asset Management S.A., James Investment Research Inc., Clinton Group Inc., Cornerstone Wealth Management LLC, Cerebellum GP LLC, Whittier Trust Co. of Nevada Inc., Nippon Life Global Investors Americas Inc. and Guidant Wealth Advisors. 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 $32.14.

NRG Energy has a market capitalization of $10.12 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]