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. Investors of record on Tuesday, May 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.03 per share on Tuesday, May 15th. This represents a $0.12 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.36%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, April 30th. View NRG Energy's Dividend History.

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

NRG Energy Inc (NYSE:NRG) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May, 3rd. The utilities provider reported $0.87 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.14 by $0.73. The utilities provider had revenue of $2.42 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate 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 quarterly revenue was up 1.6% on a year-over-year basis. View NRG Energy's Earnings History.

4 brokers have issued twelve-month price targets for NRG Energy's stock. Their predictions range from $27.00 to $37.00. On average, they expect NRG Energy's stock 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 daily trading volume, of 5,180,532 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.1 days. Currently, 7.1% of the company's stock are sold short.

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

Media stories about NRG stock have trended somewhat positive on Monday, according to Accern. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than twenty million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. NRG Energy earned a media sentiment score of 0.10 on Accern's scale. They also assigned headlines about the utilities provider an impact score of 45.85 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days.

NRG Energy's stock is owned by a number 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 purchased 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 $32.98.

NRG Energy has a market capitalization of $10.51 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]