NRG Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (NRG Energy | NYSE:NRG)

NRG Energy is one of the largest retail energy providers in the US, with 6 million customers. Vivint Smart Home, which NRG acquired in 2023, has 2 million home-services customers. NRG also is one of the largest US independent power producers, with 13 gigawatts of coal, gas, and oil power generation capacity primarily in Texas. The LS Power asset acquisition adds 13 GW of gas-fired power plants mostly in the Eastern US. NRG exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy as a stand-alone entity in December 2003.

NRG Energy trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol NRG.

As of January 23, 2026, NRG stock price declined to $149.30 with 2,066,294 million shares trading.

NRG has a beta of 1.77, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. NRG has a correlation of 0.36 to the broad based SPY ETF.

NRG has a market cap of $28.61 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter NRG Energy reported $8 billion in Revenue and $2.78 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $298 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.59.

In the last 3 years, NRG traded as high as $180.54 and as low as $30.25.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that NRG belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, VB, XLU, VBR.

NRG has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +36.7% while the SPY ETF gained +14.2%. However, in the short term, NRG had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning -8.6% vs +2.9% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, NRG shares have fared better than the market returning 0.0% compared to SPY -0.7%.

NRG support price is $146.72 and resistance is $155.46 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that NRG shares will trade within this expected range on the day.