NRG Energy
NRG
Market cap $29.7B

152.04 USD

+1.04

0.69%

At close Jun 13, 4:00 PM EDT

After hours

152.30

+0.26

0.17%

1 day

0.69%

5 days

-2.99%

1 month

-2.98%

3 months

67.22%

6 months

60.08%

Year to date

63.92%

1 year

91.53%

5 years

356.44%

10 years

535.09%

About: NRG Energy is one of the largest retail energy providers in the US, with 6 million customers. Vivint Smart Home, which NRG acquired in 2023, has 2 million home services customers. NRG also is one of the largest US independent power producers, with 13 gigawatts of coal, gas, and oil power generation capacity primarily in Texas. The LS Power asset acquisition will add 13 GW of gas-fired power plants mostly in the eastern US. NRG exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy as a stand-alone entity in December 2003.

Employees: 15,637

Utilities Independent Power Producers

0

Funds holding %

of 7,296 funds

0

Analysts bullish %

of 6 analysts

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2025 Q1 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

48% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 136 | Existing positions closed: 92

26% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 332 | Existing positions reduced: 264

3% more funds holding

Funds holding: 810 [Q4 2024] → 836 (+26) [Q1 2025]

3% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $17.6B [Q4 2024] → $18.1B (+$507M) [Q1 2025]

0% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 17 [Q4 2024] → 17 (+0) [Q1 2025]

3.02% less ownership

Funds ownership: 96.13% [Q4 2024] → 93.11% (-3.02%) [Q1 2025]

53% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $243M | Put options by funds: $518M

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Research analyst outlook

6 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

Low target

$129

15%

downside

Avg. target

$166

9%

upside

High target

$200

32%

upside

6 analyst ratings

5 positive

83%

1 neutral

17%

0 negative

0%

Raymond James	28%upside $195	Strong Buy Initiated	13 Jun 2025
BMO Capital James Thalacker	10%upside $167	Market Perform Maintained	14 May 2025
Wells Fargo Neil Kalton	32%upside $200	Overweight Maintained	13 May 2025
Guggenheim Shahriar Pourreza	14%upside $173	Buy Maintained	13 May 2025
Jefferies Julien Dumoulin-Smith	13%downside $132	Buy Maintained	5 May 2025

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Financial journalist opinion

Based on 26 articles about NRG published over the past 30 days

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