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 0.39%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, April 30th. View NRG Energy's Dividend History.

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

NRG Energy Inc (NYSE:NRG) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May, 3rd. The utilities provider reported $0.87 earnings per share 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 the consensus estimate of $2.08 billion. NRG Energy had a negative net margin of 16.04% and a positive return on equity of 26.42%. The company's revenue was up 1.6% compared to the same quarter last year. View NRG Energy's Earnings History.

4 equities research analysts have issued 1 year price targets for NRG Energy's stock. Their forecasts 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 during the month of 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 short-interest ratio is presently 4.1 days. Approximately 7.1% of the company's shares are sold short. View NRG Energy's Current Options Chain.

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

Media coverage about NRG stock has trended somewhat positive recently, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. The research firm ranks the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring 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 positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. NRG Energy earned a media sentiment score of 0.15 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news articles about the utilities provider an impact score of 46.23 out of 100, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future.

NRG Energy's stock is owned by many different 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 acquired 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 $31.02.

NRG Energy has a market capitalization of $10.04 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]