In recent trading session, NRG Energy Inc (NYSE:NRG) saw 1.09 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 1.13. Company’s recent per share price level of $166.02 trading at $4.48 or 2.77% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $32.46B. That most recent trading price of NRG’s stock is at a premium of 2.22% from its 52-week high price of $162.33 and is indicating a premium of 60.78% from its 52-week low price of $65.11. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 3.07 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 3.24 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For NRG Energy Inc (NRG), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Hold while assigning it a mean rating of 2.31. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 7 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 4 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 3 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
NRG Energy Inc (NYSE:NRG) trade information
Upright in the green today for gaining 2.77%, in the last five days NRG remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Friday, 06/27/25 when the stock touched $166.02 price level, subtracting -0.34% to its value on the day. NRG Energy Inc’s shares saw a change of 101.80% in year-to-date performance and have moved 9.28% in past 5-day. NRG Energy Inc (NYSE:NRG) showed a performance of 6.38% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 6.17 million shares which calculate 1.69 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 182 to the stock, which implies a rise of 8.78% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 167 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 197. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -0.59% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -0.59% for stock’s current value.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of -20.43% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 12.41% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 14.42%.
NRG Dividends
NRG Energy Inc is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-May-12 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 1.02%, the share has a forward dividend of 1.70 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 3.02%.
NRG Energy Inc (NYSE:NRG)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 2.97% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 97.75 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 100.74%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 97.75% institutions for NRG Energy Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at NRG for having 27.36 million shares of worth $2.13 billion. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 13.1546 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 19.35 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 9.3039 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $1.51 billion.
On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and PUTNAM LARGE CAP VALUE FUND are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 6.27 shares of worth $1.04 billion or 3.21% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 6.08 shares on Apr 30, 2025 , making its stake of worth around $1.01 billion in the company or a holder of 3.11% of company’s stock.
