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 Thursday, October 17th. Shareholders of record on Friday, November 1st will be given a dividend of $0.03 per share on Friday, November 15th. This represents a $0.12 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.31%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, October 31st. View NRG Energy's Dividend History.

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

NRG Energy Inc (NYSE:NRG) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, November, 7th. The utilities provider reported $1.88 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $2.10 by $0.22. The utilities provider earned $3 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $4.44 billion. NRG Energy had a negative return on equity of 53.61% and a net margin of 10.85%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 1.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm earned $0.96 EPS. 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.

6 equities research analysts have issued 12-month target prices for NRG Energy's shares. 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 23.7% 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.

Media coverage about NRG stock has been trending positive on Saturday, InfoTrie reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded 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 2.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the utilities provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company'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 December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 6,930,000 shares, an increase of 17.9% from the December 15th total of 5,880,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,590,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.7 days. Currently, 2.9% of the company's shares are short sold. View NRG Energy's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to NRG Energy include AES (AES), Ormat Technologies (ORA), Atlantic Power (AT), Genie Energy (GNE) and American DG Energy (ADGE).

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NRG Energy's stock is owned by a number 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%), Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.03%), Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.03%), Bowling Portfolio Management LLC (0.02%) and Tealwood Asset Management Inc. (0.02%). 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 State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Hennessy Advisors Inc., Tealwood Asset Management Inc., IFM Investors Pty Ltd, TrimTabs Asset Management LLC, 180 Wealth Advisors LLC and Louisiana State Employees Retirement System. 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 purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Artemis Investment Management LLP, Bowling Portfolio Management LLC, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, Wedge Capital Management L L P NC, Sciencast Management LP, Cerebellum GP LLC, HBW Advisory Services LLC and Huntington National Bank. 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 $38.54.

NRG Energy has a market capitalization of $9.70 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]