NRG Energy Inc (NYSE:NRG) has a beta value of 0.99 and has seen 0.43 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $19.94B, closed the recent trade at $97.92 per share which meant it gained $4.83 on the day or 5.19% during that session. The NRG stock price is -19.75% off its 52-week high price of $117.26 and 33.51% above the 52-week low of $65.11. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 2.7 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 3.21 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that NRG Energy Inc (NRG) is Hold stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 2.14. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 4 out of 7 have rated it as a Hold, with 3 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight. The expected earnings per share for the stock is 1.62.
NRG Energy Inc (NYSE:NRG) trade information
Sporting 5.19% in the green today, the stock has traded in the green over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the NRG stock price touched $97.92 or saw a rise of 2.73%. Year-to-date, NRG Energy Inc shares have moved 8.53%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change 2.08%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of NRG Energy Inc (NYSE:NRG) have changed -2.72%. Short interest in the company has seen 6.86 million shares shorted with days to cover at 1.99.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $94, which means that the shares’ value could drop -4.17% from the levels at last check today.. The projected low price target is $94.0 while the price target rests at a high of $94.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is 4.0% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock lose 4.0% from the levels at last check today..
NRG Energy Inc (NRG) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have gained 13.86% over the past 6 months. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be 13.42%.
3 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of 8.28B for the current quarter. 3 have an estimated revenue figure of 7.55B for the next ending quarter. Year-ago sales stood 7.43B and 6.66B respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will grow by 11.42% for the current quarter and 13.42% for the next.
If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was -20.43% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest 9.05% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 9.52%.
NRG Dividends
NRG Energy Inc is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Feb-25 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 1.66 at a share yield of 1.70%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months, with a 5 Year Average Dividend Yield of 3.04%.
NRG Energy Inc (NYSE:NRG)’s Major holders
Insiders own 2.88% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 96.04% with a share float percentage of 98.89%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with NRG Energy Inc having a total of 1157.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 27.36 million shares worth more than $2.13 billion. As of 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC held 13.1546% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., with the holding of over 19.35 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $1.51 billion and represent 9.3039% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and PUTNAM LARGE CAP VALUE FUND . As of Dec 31, 2024 , the former fund manager holds about 3.13% shares in the company for having 6.37 shares of worth $626.25 million while later fund manager owns 5.94 shares of worth $584.57 million as of Jan 31, 2025 , which makes it owner of about 2.92% of company’s outstanding stock.
