NYSE:NRGNRG Energy Stock Price, Forecast & News

NRG Energy's stock was trading at $30.00 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, NRG stock has decreased by 8.5% and is now trading at $27.44. View which stocks have been mosted impacted by Coronavirus.

7 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for NRG Energy in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings, 4 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for NRG Energy.

NRG Energy is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 7th 2020. View our earnings forecast for NRG Energy.

NRG Energy Inc (NYSE:NRG) announced its earnings results on Thursday, February, 27th. The utilities provider reported $0.43 EPS for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.59 by $0.16. The utilities provider had revenue of $2.21 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.01 billion. NRG Energy had a net margin of 45.19% and a negative return on equity of 120.17%. The business's revenue was up 5.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm earned $0.88 earnings per share. View NRG Energy's earnings history.

NRG Energy declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, January 21st. Shareholders of record on Monday, February 3rd will be given a dividend of $0.30 per share on Tuesday, February 18th. This represents a $1.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 4.37%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, January 31st. This is a positive change from NRG Energy's previous quarterly dividend of $0.03. View NRG Energy's dividend history.

7 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month target prices for NRG Energy's shares. Their forecasts range from $34.00 to $56.00. On average, they expect NRG Energy's share price to reach $45.07 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 64.3% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for NRG Energy.

Press coverage about NRG stock has trended very negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. NRG Energy earned a news impact score of -3.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news headlines about the utilities provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View the latest news aboutNRG Energy.

NRG Energy saw a decrease in short interest during the month of March. As of March 13th, there was short interest totaling 6,729,000 shares, a decrease of 18.8% from the February 27th total of 8,290,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,580,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.6 days. Approximately 2.7% of the shares of the company are short sold. 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 trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "NRG."

NRG Energy's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.02%). Company insiders that own NRG Energy stock include Brian Curci, Christopher Moser, David Callen, Elizabeth R Killinger, Kirkland B Andrews and Robert J Gaudette. View institutional ownership trends for NRG Energy.

NRG stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of Alaska Department of Revenue. View insider buying and selling activity 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 $27.44.

NRG Energy has a market capitalization of $6.87 billion and generates $9.82 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $4.44 billion in net income (profit) each year or $3.96 on an earnings per share basis. NRG Energy employs 4,577 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]