Currently, there are 204.93M common shares owned by the public and among those 198.08M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -9.57% and 12.98% over the past three months. NRG shares are trading 11.80% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 87.87% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $51.26 and touched a high of $115.38 over the same period. NRG has an average intraday trading volume of 2.85 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 0.18%, 3.65%, and 18.22% respectively.
Institutional ownership of NRG Energy Inc (NYSE: NRG) shares accounts for 99.40% of the company’s 204.93M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $20.43B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.13. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 24.43, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $4.13. The company has a PEG of 2.40 and a Quick Ratio of 1.10 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 4.32. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 5.80% over the week and 4.13% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 2.83%, and 16.33% over the next financial year.
Looking at the support for the NRG, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Evercore ISI stated their Outperform rating for the stock in a research note on January 21, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $74-$126. Jefferies coverage for the NRG Energy Inc (NRG) stock in a research note released on November 26, 2024 offered a Buy rating with a price target of $113. Jefferies was of a view on September 13, 2024 that the stock is Hold, while Wells Fargo gave the stock Overweight rating on January 23, 2024, issuing a price target of $65. UBS on their part issued Neutral rating on November 06, 2023.
