VST Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Vistra Corp. | NYSE:VST)

Vistra Corp. is one of the largest power producers and retail energy providers in the US. It owns 44 gigawatts of generation capacity, including natural gas (27 GW), nuclear (6.5 GW), coal (8.7 GW), and solar and battery storage (1.3 GW). The Cogentrix acquisition will add 5.5 GW of gas generation. Vistra's retail electricity business serves 5 million customers in 20 states, including almost a third of all Texas electricity consumers. Vistra emerged from the Energy Future Holdings bankruptcy as a stand-alone entity in 2016.

Vistra Corp. trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol VST.

As of November 11, 2026, VST stock price climbed to $133.45 with 3,816,443 million shares trading.

VST has a beta of 0.74, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. VST has a correlation of 0.04 to the broad based SPY ETF.

VST has a market cap of $45.29 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Vistra Corp. reported $6 billion in Revenue and $3.23 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $65 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.71.

In the last 3 years, VST traded as high as $219.82 and as low as $34.24.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that VST belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, VO, XLU, IVV.

VST has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -28.6% while the SPY ETF gained +12.6%. VST has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -6.4% and -9.0%, respectively, while the SPY returned -1.5% and -1.3%, respectively.

VST support price is $126.27 and resistance is $136.09 (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 VST shares will trade within this expected range on the day.