Utilities
NRG Energy, Inc.(NRG)
Live Price
Offline$135.06
+2.22% today
1Y Change
-11.97%
Window
Jun 26, 2025 โ Jun 24, 2026
- Market Cap
- $32.91B
- Revenue Growth
- +9.2%
- EPS Growth
- -20.4%
- Dividend Yield
- 1.2%
Coverage: 250 bars ยท Jun 26, 2025 โ Jun 24, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
NRG Energy, Inc. (NRG) is a Utilities stock with a market cap of $32.91B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $135.06 and down 12.0% across the available one-year price window (Jun 26, 2025 โ Jun 24, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +9.2%, EPS growth of -20.4%, a dividend yield of 1.2%. What stands out right now is revenue +9.2%, EPS -20.4%, free cash flow -58.2% with operating margin 6.0% and ROIC 7.0%. The dividend is present but secondary, with a yield around 1.2%. Valuation already assumes a fairly strong business story at P/E 33.8 and price/sales 1.1. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines NRG price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Utilities peers on this page.
Sector Context
How this name stacks up against nearby peers on first-pass metrics.
Revenue Growth
Above sector median
+9.2% vs +6.1% peer median
Operating Margin
Below sector median
+6.0% vs +21.0% peer median
P/E
Above sector median
33.8 vs 19.5 peer median
What Changed This Quarter
Latest report context and the signals most likely to have changed the story.
Latest report is on the board
2026 was reported on May 11, 2026, but the surprise data is still limited.
The operating picture looks softer than before
Revenue is at +9.2% and EPS is at -20.4%, with operating margin around 6.0%.
Shareholder return is still part of the story
The stock is still offering a dividend yield around 1.2%, which matters if the thesis depends on income as much as growth.
Earnings Reaction Memory
How the stock has tended to move after recent reports.
Across the last 3 reported quarters, the stock averaged -7.6% over the next 5 trading days and finished higher after 0 of those reports.
View quarter-by-quarter reaction table
| Quarter | EPS ฮ | 1D | 5D | 20D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2026 May 11, 2026 | โ | +0.0% | -8.6% | -5.3% |
2026 Feb 24, 2026 | +6.0% | -0.2% | -11.9% | -17.9% |
2025 Nov 6, 2025 | +28.5% | +1.4% | -2.3% | -4.2% |
Benchmark Edge
NRG vs SPY, QQQ, and Sector ETFs
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
NRG
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
NRG Max Drawdown
-34.44%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Calendar-Year Returns
Uses the longest available daily history for NRG and SPY.
Company Overview
NRG Energy, Inc.
New York Stock Exchange
NRG Energy, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated power company in the United States. It operates through Texas, East, and West. The company is involved in the producing, selling, and delivering electricity and related products and services to approximately 6 million residential, commercial, industrial, and wholesale customers. It generates electricity using natural gas, coal, oil, solar, nuclear, and battery storage. The company also provides system power, distributed generation, renewable products, backup generation, storage and distributed solar, demand response, and energy efficiency, and advisory services, as well as carbon management and specialty services; and on-site energy solutions. In addition, it trades in electric power, natural gas, and related commodities; environmental products; weather products; and financial products, including forwards, futures, options, and swaps. Further, the company procures fuels; provides transportation services; and directly sells energy, services, and products and services to retail customers under the NRG, Reliant, Direct Energy, Green Mountain Energy, Stream, and XOOM Energy. As of December 31, 2021, it owns and leases power generation portfolio with approximately 18,000 megawatts of capacity at 25 plants. NRG Energy, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
- Leadership
- Lawrence Stephen Coben
- IPO Date
- Dec 2, 2003
- Employees
- 15.6k
- Street Address
- 1301 McKinney Street
- Mailing
- Houston, TX, 77010
- Region
- Houston, TX, US
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 713 537 3000
- Last Updated
- May 2, 2026
Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
- 33.8
- EV/EBITDA
- 11.8
- Price/Sales
- 1.1
- Price/Book
- 17.4
Growth
- Revenue
- +9.2%
- EPS
- -20.4%
- Free Cash Flow
- -58.2%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 21.8%
- Operating Margin
- 6.0%
- Net Margin
- 2.8%
- ROE
- 39.7%
- ROIC
- 7.0%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 9.97
- Current Ratio
- 1.64
Earnings Reports
Latest News
Official Releases
Company announcements and filings-style updates.
Next Step
Keep the research moving
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