NRG Energy Inc. (NRG): Price and Financial Metrics

NRG Energy Inc. (NRG): $52.35

0.64 (-1.21%)

POWR Rating

Component Grades

Momentum

C

Stability

D

Sentiment

Quality

D

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Industry: Utilities - Domestic

Industry

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NRG Price/Volume Stats

Current price $52.35 52-week high $55.36
Prev. close $52.99 52-week low $30.25
Day low $51.94 Volume 2,834,600
Day high $53.19 Avg. volume 3,211,496
50-day MA $50.83 Dividend yield 3.04%
200-day MA $41.18 Market Cap 11.82B

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NRG POWR Grades

  • Growth is the dimension where NRG ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 83.54% of US stocks.
  • The strongest trend for NRG is in Growth, which has been heading up over the past 26 weeks.
  • NRG's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 10.91% of US stocks).

NRG Stock Summary

  • The capital turnover (annual revenue relative to shareholder's equity) for NRG is 8.49 -- better than 95.51% of US stocks.
  • NRG's price/sales ratio is 0.39; that's higher than the P/S ratio of merely 12.68% of US stocks.
  • Over the past twelve months, NRG has reported earnings growth of -158.32%, putting it ahead of merely 8.61% of US stocks in our set.
  • Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to NRG ENERGY INC are BERY, GLT, BALY, WWW, and FLL.
  • NRG's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit NRG ENERGY INC's official web site, go to www.nrg.com.

NRG Valuation Summary

  • In comparison to the median Utilities stock, NRG's price/sales ratio is 77.78% lower, now standing at 0.4.
  • NRG's EV/EBIT ratio has moved NA NA over the prior 240 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for NRG.

Stock Date P/S P/B P/E EV/EBIT
NRG 2023-12-27 0.4 3.3 -6.4 -16.5
NRG 2023-12-26 0.4 3.3 -6.3 -16.4
NRG 2023-12-22 0.4 3.2 -6.2 -16.3
NRG 2023-12-21 0.4 3.2 -6.2 -16.3
NRG 2023-12-20 0.4 3.2 -6.1 -16.2
NRG 2023-12-19 0.4 3.2 -6.2 -16.3

NRG Growth Metrics

    Its 2 year price growth rate is now at 28.89%.
  • The 4 year revenue growth rate now stands at -18.57%.
  • Its 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 20.55%.
NRG's revenue has moved up $18,853,000,000 over the prior 67 months.

The table below shows NRG's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date Revenue Operating Cash Flow Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30 30,734 396 1,889
2022-06-30 28,833 3,305 3,440
2022-03-31 26,794 3,086 4,005
2021-12-31 26,989 493 2,187
2021-09-30 21,970 2,306 2,441
2021-06-30 18,170 1,522 1,072

NRG's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.
  • NRG has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 32.91% of graded US stocks.
  • NRG's asset turnover comes in at 1.069 -- ranking 3rd of 105 Utilities stocks.
  • VST, NEP, and PCG are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with NRG.

The table below shows NRG's key quality metrics over time.

Period Asset Turnover Gross Margin ROIC
2021-06-30 1.069 0.259 0.103
2021-03-31 1.033 0.212 0.051
2020-12-31 0.696 0.281 0.072
2020-09-30 0.742 0.290 0.084
2020-06-30 0.800 0.291 0.090
2020-03-31 0.879 0.265 0.080

NRG Price Target

For more insight on analysts targets of NRG, see our NRG price target page. And for a list of of all stocks sorted by upside potential based on analyst target price, see our Top Price Target page.

Average Price Target $47.30 Average Broker Recommendation 1.59 (Moderate Buy)

NRG Energy Inc. (NRG) Company Bio


NRG Energy, Inc. is an American energy company, headquartered in HoustonTexas. It was formerly the wholesale arm of Northern States Power Company (NSP), which became Xcel Energy, but became independent in 2000. NRG Energy is involved in energy generation and retail electricity. Their portfolio includes natural gas generation, coal generation, oil generation, nuclear generation, wind generation, utility scale generation, and distributed solar generation. NRG serves 6 million retail customers in 24 US states including Texas, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio; the District of Columbia, and eight provinces in Canada. (Source:Wikipedia)


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NRG Price Returns

1-mo 1.99%
3-mo 15.80%
6-mo 45.18%
1-year 56.26%
3-year 38.81%
5-year 46.11%
YTD 2.03%
2023 69.35%
2022 -23.47%
2021 18.54%
2020 -2.14%
2019 0.69%

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