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

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

NRG Energy announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, January 21st. Shareholders of record on Monday, February 3rd will be paid a dividend of $0.30 per share on Tuesday, February 18th. This represents a $1.20 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.25%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, January 31st. This is a boost from NRG Energy's previous quarterly dividend of $0.03. View NRG Energy's Dividend History.

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

NRG Energy Inc (NYSE:NRG) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November, 7th. The utilities provider reported $1.88 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $2.10 by $0.22. The utilities provider earned $3 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $4.44 billion. NRG Energy had a net margin of 10.85% and a negative return on equity of 53.61%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 1.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.96 earnings per share. View NRG Energy's Earnings History.

NRG Energy is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 27th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for NRG Energy.

NRG Energy will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, February 27th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

6 brokerages have issued twelve-month price objectives for NRG Energy's stock. Their forecasts range from $39.00 to $56.00. On average, they anticipate NRG Energy's share price to reach $47.67 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 29.2% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for NRG Energy.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for NRG Energy in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings, 3 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for NRG Energy.

News coverage about NRG stock has trended somewhat negative this week, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. NRG Energy earned a coverage optimism score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the utilities provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for NRG Energy.

NRG Energy saw a increase in short interest in the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 6,930,000 shares, an increase of 17.9% from the December 31st total of 5,880,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,590,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.7 days. Approximately 2.9% of the company's stock are short sold. View NRG Energy's Current Options Chain.

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NRG Energy's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Artemis Investment Management LLP (0.32%), Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.23%), New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.17%), James Investment Research Inc. (0.08%), Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.03%) and Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank (0.03%). 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 sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank , New York State Teachers Retirement System, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, James Investment Research Inc., Convergence Investment Partners LLC, Hennessy Advisors Inc., Eqis Capital Management Inc. and Tealwood Asset Management Inc.. Company insiders that have sold NRG Energy company stock in the last year include Brian Curci, David Callen, Elizabeth R Killinger, Kirkland B Andrews and Robert J Gaudette. View Insider Buying and Selling for NRG Energy.

NRG stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Artemis Investment Management LLP, Bowling Portfolio Management LLC, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, NEXT Financial Group Inc, Wedge Capital Management L L P NC, Sciencast Management LP, Exane Derivatives and Cerebellum GP LLC. 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of NRG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $36.89.

NRG Energy has a market capitalization of $9.28 billion and generates $9.48 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $268 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.41 on an earnings per share basis. NRG Energy employs 4,862 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]