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. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, May 1st will be given a dividend of $0.03 per share on Tuesday, May 15th. This represents a $0.12 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.38%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, April 30th. View NRG Energy's Dividend History.

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

NRG Energy Inc (NYSE:NRG) issued its earnings results on Thursday, May, 3rd. The utilities provider reported $0.87 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.14 by $0.73. The utilities provider earned $2.42 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.08 billion. NRG Energy had a positive return on equity of 26.42% and a negative net margin of 16.04%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 1.6% compared to the same quarter last year. View NRG Energy's Earnings History.

4 analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for NRG Energy's stock. Their predictions 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 in 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 volume of 5,180,532 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 4.1 days. Currently, 7.1% of the shares of the company are short sold.

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

Media coverage about NRG stock has been trending somewhat positive on Wednesday, according to Accern Sentiment. Accern identifies negative and positive news coverage by reviewing more than 20 million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. NRG Energy earned a news impact score of 0.22 on Accern's scale. They also gave news headlines about the utilities provider an impact score of 44.90 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term.

NRG Energy's stock is owned by a number of 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 bought 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 $31.96.

NRG Energy has a market capitalization of $10.51 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]