Stock · NRG · Utilities
United States · Large Cap · listed since 2000 · Revenue 12 mo. $33.2B
Price as of 11/06/2026
NRG Energy, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an energy and home services company in the United States and Canada.
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 Activities segments. The company offers retail electricity, energy management, demand response and virtual power plant programs, carbon offsets, smart home security, and automation services. It also offers system power, distributed and backup generation, energy storage, energy management, renewable and low-carbon products, and carbon management solutions for large business and commercial customers; a cloud-based home platform, including hardware, software, sales, installation, customer service, technical support, and professional monitoring solutions; and generation portfolio includes fossil fuel and renewable generation assets diversified by fuel type and dispatch level, with ongoing development of new natural gas and renewable projects. In addition, the company trades in power, natural gas, and related products; environmental products; weather products; and financial products, including forwards, futures, options, and swaps. It offers its products and services under the NRG, Reliant, Direct Energy, Green Mountain Energy, and Vivint. It serves residential, commercial, government, industrial, data center, and wholesale customers. NRG Energy, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
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Summary
43.1 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €687.4M (2025), it supports €7.6B. The remaining €9.3B of the market value assume it grows 11.1% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
11.1%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 12.0×, within its usual range.
Middle half of 16 quarters: 7.5× to 20.0×, median 11.7×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q1 → Q2 2026
2 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., Net debt
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 51.40% | 9.62% | Rank 99 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 20.83% | 6.41% | Rank 94 |
| EBIT margin | 6.02% | 19.18% | Rank 15 |
| FCF margin | 2.49% | −1.66% | Rank 62 |
| Gross margin | 21.85% | 29.12% | Rank 34 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 9.17% | 4.81% | Rank 68 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | −5.68% | 7.55% | Rank 15 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | 15.93% | 6.85% | Rank 77 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 3.73% | 28.08% | Rank 9 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 4.92% | 4.89% | Rank 51 |
| FCF yield | 4.07% | −0.91% | Rank 79 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 0.93 | 4.63 | Rank 95 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 15.50 | 21.24 | Rank 85 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | −57.70% | −1.83% | Rank 2 |
| Share price, 6 months | −35.59% | 0.12% | Rank 3 |
| Share price, 3 months | −20.13% | 6.83% | Rank 2 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −52.02% | −9.51% | Rank 2 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | 2.22% | 3.91% | Rank 68 |
| Change in share countlower is better | −6.13% | 0.35% | Rank 97 |
| Dividend streak in years | 8 | 8 | Rank 55 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | −17.12% | 0.04% | Rank 1 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 5.77% | 28.29% | Rank 2 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | 3.00 | 5.05 | Rank 74 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 9.97 | 1.51 | Rank 1 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 48.95% | 22.48% | Rank 7 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF | Shares | Net debt, $B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 8.9 | 0.4% | $1.1B | 316M | 17.3 |
| 2017 | 9.1 | −8.2% | $1.4B | 317M | 15.4 |
| 2018 | 9.5 | 10.4% | $989.0M | 308M | 6.0 |
| 2019 | 9.8 | 13.1% | $1.2B | 264M | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 9.1 | 12.2% | $1.6B | 246M | 5.1 |
| 2021 | 27.0 | 12.4% | $224.0M | 245M | 8.0 |
| 2022 | 31.5 | 6.4% | −$13.0M | 236M | 7.9 |
| 2023 | 28.8 | 1.3% | −$819.0M | 228M | 10.4 |
| 2024 | 28.1 | 8.6% | $1.8B | 212M | 10.0 |
| 2025 | 30.7 | 6.0% | $766.0M | 199M | 12.0 |
4 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
NRG Energy Inc. mainly meets criteria in the Profitability category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
NRG Energy Inc. is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
4 of 7 rules met
7 of 11 points
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Selected fundamental metrics for NRG Energy Inc.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 20.3 | 19.8 |
| P/B ratio | 10.5 | 1.9 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 51.4% | 9.6% |
| Equity ratio | 5.8% | 28.3% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 9.97 | 1.51 |
| Dividend yield | 2.2% | 3.3% |
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