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

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

NRG Energy declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 17th. Investors of record on Thursday, November 1st will be given a dividend of $0.03 per share on Thursday, November 15th. This represents a $0.12 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.30%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, October 31st. View NRG Energy's Dividend History.

NRG Energy declared that its Board of Directors has approved a share buyback plan on Thursday, March 1st 2018, which authorizes the company to repurchase $1,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are generally an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

NRG Energy Inc (NYSE:NRG) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, November, 8th. The utilities provider reported $0.94 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $1.12 by $0.18. The utilities provider earned $3.06 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $4.04 billion. NRG Energy had a positive return on equity of 61.11% and a negative net margin of 11.52%. NRG Energy's quarterly revenue was up 11.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $0.60 earnings per share. View NRG Energy's Earnings History.

NRG Energy is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, March 7th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for NRG Energy.

5 analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for NRG Energy's stock. Their forecasts range from $36.00 to $42.00. On average, they anticipate NRG Energy's share price to reach $38.80 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 4.3%. View Analyst Price Targets for NRG Energy.

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

News coverage about NRG stock has trended somewhat positive on Monday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group identifies negative and positive press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. NRG Energy earned a media sentiment score of 0.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the utilities provider a news buzz of 1.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days.

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

NRG Energy's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (12.54%), BlackRock Inc. (6.14%), FMR LLC (4.66%), Janus Henderson Group PLC (3.51%), Steadfast Capital Management LP (2.50%) and Putnam Investments LLC (2.48%). Company insiders that own NRG Energy stock include Barry T Smitherman, Christopher Moser, David Callen, Elizabeth R Killinger 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 Zweig DiMenna Associates LLC, Luminus Management LLC, Renaissance Technologies LLC, BlueMountain Capital Management LLC, Neuberger Berman Group LLC, American Century Companies Inc., Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc. and Prudential Financial Inc.. Company insiders that have sold NRG Energy company stock in the last year include Christopher Moser, David Callen and Elizabeth R Killinger. View Insider Buying and Selling for NRG Energy.

NRG stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, MERIAN GLOBAL INVESTORS UK Ltd, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Alliancebernstein L.P., Steadfast Capital Management LP, Janus Henderson Group PLC, NorthCoast Asset Management LLC and Pennant Investors LP. 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 $40.53.

NRG Energy has a market capitalization of $11.75 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.

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]