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

NRG Energy's stock was trading at $30.00 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, NRG stock has decreased by 9.1% and is now trading at $27.26. View which stocks have been mosted impacted by Coronavirus.

7 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for NRG Energy in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings, 4 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for NRG Energy.

NRG Energy is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 7th 2020. View our earnings forecast for NRG Energy.

NRG Energy Inc (NYSE:NRG) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February, 27th. The utilities provider reported $0.43 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.59 by $0.16. The utilities provider earned $2.21 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.01 billion. NRG Energy had a negative return on equity of 120.17% and a net margin of 45.19%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 5.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.88 earnings per share. View NRG Energy's earnings history.

NRG Energy declared 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 dividend yield of 4.40%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, January 31st. This is an increase from NRG Energy's previous quarterly dividend of $0.03. View NRG Energy's dividend history.

7 equities research analysts have issued 12-month target prices for NRG Energy's stock. Their forecasts range from $39.00 to $56.00. On average, they expect NRG Energy's share price to reach $46.79 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 71.6% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for NRG Energy.

News headlines about NRG stock have trended very negative this week, according to InfoTrie. The research firm rates the sentiment of media 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 news impact score of -3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media coverage about the utilities provider a news buzz of 4.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days. View the latest news aboutNRG Energy.

NRG Energy saw a decline in short interest during the month of March. As of March 13th, there was short interest totaling 6,729,000 shares, a decline of 18.8% from the February 27th total of 8,290,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,580,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.6 days. Currently, 2.7% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View NRG Energy's Current Options Chain.

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

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One share of NRG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $27.26.

NRG Energy has a market capitalization of $6.83 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. 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]