NRG · Utilities
What a holder would want to know before buying NRG: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.
Today’s price is 13% above the lowest point of the past year and 41% below the highest.
Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 7% of days and more expensive on 93%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 86% of days.
23% below its average price of the last 200 trading days.
Fell 20% or more 8 times in 10 years. The deepest fall was 49%; the longest took 24 months to get back to its peak. 7 of 8 have recovered so far.
It is in one now: 41% below the Feb 2026 peak.
NRG Energy, Inc. · Utilities · Utilities - Independent Power Producers · a large company worth $22.70B
NRG Energy, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an energy and home services company in the United States and Canada. It operates through the Texas, East, West/Other, Vivint Smart Home, and Corporate…
revenue profit
Sales of $30.71B in 2025, with $864.00M of profit. Sales grew in 1 of the last 3 years.
Keeps about 3 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.
Would need about 30 years of free cash flow to repay all its debt.
You pay $28 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $10 for every $1 of profit expected next year.
A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.
Pays 1.79% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Aug 3.
16 analysts: 13 say buy, 3 hold, 0 sell. Their average 12-month target is $185.50 (range $104.00–$270.00).
Insiders made 0 purchases and 3 sales in the last 6 months. Executives routinely sell shares they were paid in; buying with their own money is the rarer signal.
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