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. Investors 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 3.00%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, January 31st. This is an increase from NRG Energy's previous quarterly dividend of $0.03. View NRG Energy's Dividend History.

NRG Energy announced that its board has initiated a stock repurchase 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 generally a sign that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

NRG Energy Inc (NYSE:NRG) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, November, 7th. The utilities provider reported $1.88 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Zacks' 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 negative return on equity of 53.61% and a net margin of 10.85%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 1.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior 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.

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 equities research analysts have issued 1 year target prices for NRG Energy's shares. Their forecasts range from $39.00 to $56.00. On average, they expect NRG Energy's share price to reach $47.67 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 19.3% 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 stories about NRG stock have trended negative on Wednesday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of news 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 positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. NRG Energy earned a daily sentiment score of -2.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media coverage about the utilities provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for NRG Energy.

NRG Energy saw a decrease in short interest during the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 6,270,000 shares, a decrease of 9.5% from the January 15th total of 6,930,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,670,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.3 days. Approximately 2.6% of the shares of the stock are sold short. 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 institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Alliancebernstein L.P. (2.95%), Janus Henderson Group PLC (1.96%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (1.89%), Prudential Financial Inc. (1.54%), Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc. (1.51%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.39%). 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 Janus Henderson Group PLC, Schonfeld Strategic Advisors LLC, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Jefferies Group LLC, SG Americas Securities LLC, State of Tennessee Treasury Department, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. and MERIAN GLOBAL INVESTORS UK Ltd. 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Renaissance Technologies LLC, Alliancebernstein L.P., Bank of Montreal Can, Point72 Asset Management L.P., Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc., Retirement Systems of Alabama, Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc. and Schroder Investment Management Group. 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 $39.95.

NRG Energy has a market capitalization of $10.05 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]