Currently, there are 203.67M common shares owned by the public and among those 199.72M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 29.58% and 43.19% over the past three months. NRG shares are trading 66.94% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 98.64% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $65.11 and touched a high of $120.92 over the same period. NRG has an average intraday trading volume of 3.06 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 36.99%, 49.31%, and 60.12% respectively.
Institutional ownership of NRG Energy Inc (NYSE: NRG) shares accounts for 96.99% of the company’s 203.67M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $30.67B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.00. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 29.84, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $5.05. The company has a PEG of 3.32 and a Quick Ratio of 0.96 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 4.44. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 4.60% over the week and 3.91% over the month.
Analysts forecast that NRG Energy Inc (NRG) will achieve an EPS of 1.39 for the current quarter, 2.0 for the next quarter and 8.22 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 0.78 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 0.78. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 9.58%, and 7.02% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 9.00% over the next five years, compared to -20.43% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the NRG, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Goldman stated their Buy rating for the stock in a research note on April 04, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $129. Evercore ISI coverage for the NRG Energy Inc (NRG) stock in a research note released on January 21, 2025 offered a Outperform rating with a price target of $126. Jefferies was of a view on November 26, 2024 that the stock is Buy, while Jefferies gave the stock Hold rating on September 13, 2024, issuing a price target of $82. Wells Fargo on their part issued Overweight rating on January 23, 2024.
