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Market cap

29.1B

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Market data

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E13.9

P25 15.3P50 18.3P75 20.8

Trailing P/E159.6

P25 16.2P50 20.2P75 23.8

ROE6.2

P25 4.7P50 8.5P75 10.2

ROIC3.5

P25 2.4P50 3.8P75 4.8

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All NRG market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

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Showing 259 of 259 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0001013871
Company name	NRG Energy, Inc.
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	629377508
Employees	16,702
Employees Change	1,065%
Employees Change Percent	6.81
Enterprise value	$52.3B
Exchange	NYSE
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
In Index	SP500
Industry	Utilities - Independent Power Producers
IPO Date	2000-05-25
Isin	US6293775085
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$29.1B
Market cap category	Large-Cap
Price	$138
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	1,938,929.47x
Sector	Utilities
Sic	4911
Symbol	NRG
Website	https://www.nrg.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	0.59%
EV Earnings	304.18x
EV Sales Forward	1.46x
EV/EBIT	44.79x
EV/EBITDA	23.17x
EV/Sales	1.62x
FCF yield	-1.16%
Forward P/E	13.89x
P/B ratio	6.96x
P/E ratio	159.57x
P/S ratio	0.9x
PE Ratio10 Y	21.72x
PE Ratio3 Y	42.44x
PE Ratio5 Y	25.98x
PEG ratio	0.66x
PS Forward	0.81x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	3.61%
EBITDA Margin	6.97%
Gross margin	16.45%
Gross Profit	$5.3B
Net Income	$172M
Net Income Growth	-82.48%
Net Income Growth Q	-83.33%
Net Income Growth Years	0%
Net Income Growth5 Y	-10.94%
Pretax Margin	0.72%
Profit Margin	0.74%
Profit Per Employee	$10,298
Profitable Years	2
ROA	2.24
Roa5y	5.05
ROCE	4.14
ROE	6.25
Roe5y	38.61
ROIC	3.48

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	27.02%
Cagr15y	14.58%
Cagr1y	17.73%
Cagr20y	10.69%
Cagr3y	67.45%
Cagr5y	35.4%
Div CAGR10	14.68%
Div CAGR3	7.94%
Div CAGR5	7.92%
EPS Growth	-86.03
EPS Growth Q	-85.6
EPS Growth Years	0
EPS Growth5 Y	-7.09
OCF Growth	-69.28%
OCF Growth10 Y	-5.72%
OCF Growth5 Y	4.54%
Revenue Growth	10.58x
Revenue Growth Q	19.46x
Revenue Growth Quarters	6x
Revenue Growth Years	1x
Revenue Growth3 Y	1.07x
Revenue Growth5 Y	16.39x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$1
Assets	$40.1B
Cash	$178M
Current Assets	$9.9B
Current Liabilities	$11.8B
Debt	$23.4B
Debt EBITDA	$9.29
Debt Equity	$4.79
Equity	$4.9B
Interest Coverage	1.35
Liabilities	$35.2B
Long Term Assets	$30.1B
Long Term Liabilities	$23.3B
Net Cash	$-23.2B
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-79.55
Net Debt EBITDA	$10.27
Net Debt Equity	$4.76
Tangible Book Value	$-7.1B
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$-33.46
WACC	7.67

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	0.84
Inventory Turnover	52.13
Net Working Capital	$1.3B
Quick ratio	0.33
Working Capital	$-1.9B
Working Capital Turnover	$-47.98

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	4.3%
Dividend Growth	7.96%
Dividend Growth Years	6%
Dividend per share	$1.9
Dividend Years	15
Dividend Yield	1.38%
Ex Div Date	2026-05-01
Last Dividend	$0.48
Payout Frequency	Quarterly
Payout Ratio	211.43%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
10Y total return	993.18%
1Y total return	17.71%
200-day SMA	159.7
3Y total return	369.67%
50-day SMA	155.8
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50under200
5Y total return	355.01%
All Time High	190
All Time High Change	-27.3%
All Time High Date	2026-02-25
All Time Low	8.8
All Time Low Change	1,469.43%
All Time Low Date	2015-12-07
ATR	6.65
Beta	1.32
Beta1y	1.54
Beta2y	1.67
Ch YTD	-13.27
High	145
High52	190
High52 Date	2026-02-25
High52ch	-27.3%
Low	137.8
Low52	117.4
Low52 Date	2025-05-09
Low52ch	17.61%
Ma50ch	-11.38%
Premarket Change Percent	1.5
Premarket Price	$144
Premarket Volume	707
Price vs 200-day SMA	-13.52%
RSI	35.41
RSI Monthly	53.8
RSI Weekly	40.58
Sharpe ratio	0.49x
Sortino ratio	0.89
Total Return	5.68%
Tr YTD	-12.73
Tr15y	670.18%
Tr1m	-9.49%
Tr1w	-9.95%
Tr3m	-9.64%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	13
Analyst Count Top	9
Analyst Price Target Top	$211
Analyst Ratings	Strong Buy
Analyst Ratings Top	Strong Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate	$1.73
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	-33.97
Earnings Revenue Estimate	8,983,738,064x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	4.64x
Operating Income	$1.2B
Operating margin	3.61
Price target	$203
Price Target Change	$46.98
Price Target Change Top	$53.02

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	210,105,052%
Float Percent	99.58%
Net Borrowing	9,046,000,000
Shares Insiders	0.31%
Shares Institutions	92.31%
Shares Out	210,986,470
Shares Qo Q	7.77%
Shares Yo Y	-4.3%
Short Float	2.38%
Short Ratio	2.1
Short Shares	2.37

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$-484M
Average Volume	2,739,637.25x
Bv Per Share	19.85
CAPEX	$-1.2B
Ch10y	789.9
Ch15y	473.3
Ch1m	-9.77
Ch1w	-9.95
Ch1y	16.38
Ch20y	467.3
Ch3m	-9.92
Ch3y	341.5
Ch5y	297.3
Ch6m	-19.94
Change	-2.64%
Change From Open	-3.79
Close	141.9
Days Gap	1.19
Depreciation Amortization	1,512,000,000
Dollar Volume	341,822,664.3
Earnings Date	2026-05-06
Earnings Time	bmo
EBIT	$1.2B
EBITDA	$2.3B
EPS	$0.87
F Score	4
FCF	$-338M
FCF EV Yield	-0.65x
FCF Per Share	$-1.6
Financing CF	6,656,000,000
Fiscal Year End	December
Founded	1,989
Goodwill	8,881,000,000
Graham Number	19.66271
Graham Upside	-85.76
Income Tax	$-7M
Investing CF	-8,576,000,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-05-06
Last Report Date	2026-03-31
Last Split Date	2007-06-01
Last Split Type	Forward
Last10k Filing Date	2026-02-24
Lynch Fair Value	$4.33
Lynch Upside	-96.87
Ma150	160.5
Ma150ch	-13.98%
Ma20	156.6
Ma20ch	-11.83%
Net CF	-1,027,000,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-08-05
Open	143.6
Optionable	Yes
P OCF Ratio	32.78
Payment Date	2026-05-15
Position In Range	4.86
Post Close	138.1
Postmarket Change Percent	1.33
Postmarket Price	$140
Ppne	13,686,000,000
Pre Close	141.9
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$12.9
Relative Volume	0.9x
Revenue	32,384,000,000x
SBC By Revenue	0.45x
Share Based Comp	146,000,000
Tax By Revenue	-0.02x
Tr20y	662.11%
Tr6m	-19.44%
Us State	Texas
Volume	2,475,003

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Income

NRG dividend yield, growth & safety

Yield, payout sustainability, and the multi-year growth streak.

Dividend yield

+1.4%

$1.90 annual per share

Payout ratio

+211.4%

Share of earnings returned as dividends. Below 60% is generally sustainable.

5Y dividend CAGR

+7.9%

6 consecutive years of growth

Total shareholder yield

+5.7%

Next ex-dividend date: 2026-05-01

Performance

NRG stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns NRG?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+92.3%

Float: +99.6% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+0.3%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

NRG momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

35.4

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

-13.5%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

1.32

More volatile than the market

Sharpe ratio

0.49

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

NRG vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
NEE	NextEra Energy Inc.	194.1B	23.6x	7.0x	3.1%	+10.2%	+42.3%	Kopen

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