NYSE:NRG - NRG Energy Stock Price, News, & Analysis

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

NRG Energy declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 17th. Investors of record on Thursday, November 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.03 per share on Thursday, November 15th. This represents a $0.12 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.28%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, October 31st. View NRG Energy's Dividend History.

NRG Energy announced that its board has initiated a share buyback program on Thursday, March 1st 2018, which permits the company to buyback $1,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are generally an indication that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

NRG Energy Inc (NYSE:NRG) posted its earnings results on Thursday, November, 8th. The utilities provider reported $0.94 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.12 by $0.18. The utilities provider earned $3.06 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $4.04 billion. NRG Energy had a negative net margin of 11.52% and a positive return on equity of 61.11%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 11.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.60 earnings per share. View NRG Energy's Earnings History.

NRG Energy is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, March 7th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for NRG Energy.

5 brokerages have issued 12-month target prices for NRG Energy's shares. Their forecasts range from $36.00 to $47.00. On average, they expect NRG Energy's share price to reach $40.60 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 4.1%. View Analyst Price Targets for NRG Energy.

5 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for NRG Energy in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for NRG Energy.

News stories about NRG stock have been trending somewhat positive on Sunday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. NRG Energy earned a media sentiment score of 1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the utilities provider a news buzz of 4.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future.

Some companies that are related to NRG Energy include Southern (SO), American Electric Power (AEP), CLP (CLPHY), Eversource Energy (ES), PPL (PPL), DTE Energy (DTE), FirstEnergy (FE), Edison International (EIX), Korea Electric Power (KEP), Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNABY), Avangrid (AGR), Entergy (ETR), Fortis (FTS), CenterPoint Energy (CNP) and SSE PLC/S (SSEZY).

NRG Energy's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc (12.54%), BlackRock Inc. (6.14%), FMR LLC (4.66%), Janus Henderson Group PLC (3.51%), Steadfast Capital Management LP (2.50%) and Putnam Investments LLC (2.48%). Company insiders that own NRG Energy stock include Barry T Smitherman, Christopher Moser, David Callen, Elizabeth R Killinger 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 Zweig DiMenna Associates LLC, Luminus Management LLC, Renaissance Technologies LLC, BlueMountain Capital Management LLC, Neuberger Berman Group LLC, American Century Companies Inc., Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc. and Prudential Financial Inc.. Company insiders that have sold NRG Energy company stock in the last year include Christopher Moser, David Callen and Elizabeth R Killinger. View Insider Buying and Selling for NRG Energy.

NRG stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, MERIAN GLOBAL INVESTORS UK Ltd, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Alliancebernstein L.P., Steadfast Capital Management LP, Janus Henderson Group PLC, NorthCoast Asset Management LLC and Pennant Investors LP. 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 $42.32.

NRG Energy has a market capitalization of $12.27 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.

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]