NYSE:NRGNRG Energy Stock Price, Forecast & News

NRG Energy's stock was trading at $30.00 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, NRG shares have increased by 17.1% and is now trading at $35.12.
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9 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for NRG Energy in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."
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NRG Energy is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, November 5th 2020.
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NRG Energy Inc (NYSE:NRG) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, August, 6th. The utilities provider reported $1.27 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.53 by $0.26. The utilities provider earned $2.24 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.81 billion. NRG Energy had a return on equity of 130.12% and a net margin of 44.34%. The company's revenue for the quarter was down 9.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm earned $0.70 EPS.
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NRG Energy declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, July 17th. Stockholders of record on Monday, August 3rd will be paid a dividend of $0.30 per share on Monday, August 17th. This represents a $1.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.42%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, July 31st.
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9 brokerages have issued 12-month target prices for NRG Energy's shares. Their forecasts range from $28.00 to $50.00. On average, they anticipate NRG Energy's share price to reach $40.33 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 14.8% from the stock's current price.
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Media headlines about NRG stock have trended somewhat negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm scores the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. NRG Energy earned a media sentiment score of -1.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the utilities provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days.
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NRG Energy saw a decline in short interest during the month of April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totaling 5,960,000 shares, a decline of 24.1% from the April 15th total of 7,850,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 3,440,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.7 days. Currently, 2.6% of the company's stock are sold short.
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Some companies that are related to NRG Energy include AES (AES), Ormat Technologies (ORA), Genie Energy (GNE), Atlantic Power (AT) 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 variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (11.94%), Pzena Investment Management LLC (2.81%), LSV Asset Management (2.34%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.67%), Lyrical Asset Management LP (1.54%) and Prudential Financial Inc. (1.20%). Company insiders that own NRG Energy stock include Brian Curci, Christopher Moser, David Callen, Elizabeth R Killinger, Kirkland B Andrews and Robert J Gaudette.
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NRG stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Vanguard Group Inc., NorthCoast Asset Management LLC, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Ensign Peak Advisors Inc, TD Asset Management Inc., Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Lonestar Capital Management LLC, and Wedge Capital Management L L P NC. Company insiders that have sold NRG Energy company stock in the last year include Brian Curci, Elizabeth R Killinger, Kirkland B Andrews, and Robert J Gaudette.
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NRG stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Pzena Investment Management LLC, LSV Asset Management, Lyrical Asset Management LP, AJO LP, Prudential Financial Inc., First Trust Advisors LP, Beach Investment Counsel Inc. PA, and MUFG Securities EMEA plc.
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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 $35.12.

NRG Energy has a market capitalization of $8.57 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.

The official website for NRG Energy is 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]