NRG Energy Inc (NRG) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $154.47, with 3.95 million shares of worth about $609.91 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 61.78% during that period and on May 29, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -1.02%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 196.46M shares, out of which, 191.99M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -0.64% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 41.03%. Year-to-date (YTD), NRG shares are showing a performance of 71.21% which increased to 79.62% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $65.11 but also hit the highest price of $161.78 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for NRG Energy Inc shares is 3.35 million. The stock is currently trading 8.22% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 33.08% for SMA50 and it goes to 55.95% higher than SMA200.
NRG Energy Inc (NYSE: NRG) currently have 196.46M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 97.94% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $30.20B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.12. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 24.33, while it has posted earnings per share of $6.35 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.98 and has Quick Ratio of 1.02 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 3.96. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for NRG, volatility over the week remained 1.19% while standing at 5.38% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that NRG Energy Inc (NRG) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 1.39 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 2.0 and it is 7.77 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 0.78 which is 1.75 at the higher side of the target for the same. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 12.38% while it is estimated to increase by 9.06% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 12.26% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -20.43% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Goldman on April 04, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $129 to it. Coverage by Evercore ISI stated NRG Energy Inc (NRG) stock as an Outperform in their note to investors on January 21, 2025, suggesting a price target of $126 for the stock. On November 26, 2024, Jefferies Upgrade their recommendations, while on September 13, 2024, Jefferies Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $82. Stock get an Overweight rating from Wells Fargo on January 23, 2024.
