How is NRG Energy (NRG) doing?
NRG Energy is a company in the independent power producers industry, based in Houston, TX, worth $22.8B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.
Updated Oct 9, 2026
Weak
NRG Energy shares are down 36% over the past year, 44 points behind the S&P 500. Its type is Sleepy Staple. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 6th percentile on market beat, the 55th on staying power and the 7th on business growth. It appears on 12 of our dashboards.
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Financials, earnings and news on Stox ›The past year
Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.
What kind of stock is it?
Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.
Sleepy Staple
Lagging steadily on a soft business, with light selling. Slow and predictable.
Sleepy Staple since Aug; Wallflower before that.
Also Sleepy Staple (80 in all): BAX · UAA · UA · CNP · FE · SHW
How is it doing against its group?
Its group is Electrification, 26 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Power, grid and data-center build-out — the AI-capex spillover.
NRG Energy is −36% over the past year, against +22% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 26th of 26 in Electrification.
How much does it move?
Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.
About usual NRG Energy typically moves 4.3% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings more than 82% of large US stocks.
NRG on our dashboards
Every question where NRG Energy appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with NRG highlighted. Select a column to sort.
| Question | Reading | Place | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| How far are stocks from their highs? Market health | 7Slowing | 34 of 60 | Below high −41% · Days since high 158 · 1Y change −36% |
| What moved this week? What’s leading | 99Rare | 9 of 60 | This week +13.4% · × normal week 1.4× · 1M −3% |
| What are this year’s biggest winners and losers? What’s leading | 5Bottom | 57 of 60 | This year −32% · vs S&P −46 pts · Past month −3% |
| How much do stocks move on earnings? Earnings | 90Big mover | 40 of 60 | Reports 2026-11-05 · Typical move 9.3% · Largest 31% |
| Who beat, and did it stick? Earnings | 1Miss | 53 of 60 | Next day −4.3% · Next month −15.3% |
| Is the market rewarding earnings beats? Earnings | –Miss | 34 of 60 | Surprise −12% · Move vs S&P −14.4% · Reported 2026-08-04 |
| Which companies do analysts expect to grow fastest? Earnings | 88Fast | 60 of 60 | EPS growth +25% · This year 8.89 · Next year 11.07 |
| Which stocks keep losing? Leading stocks | 9231 of 52 wks | 44 of 60 | vs S&P, 1Y −51 pts |
| Which companies are growing fastest? Business quality | 89Fast | 57 of 60 | Revenue, 1Y +25% · Change +23 pts · Earnings, 1Y +63% |
| Which stocks are cheap for their growth? Value | 100Cheap | 10 of 60 | PEG 0.46 · Forward P/E 11.3× · Expected EPS growth +25% |
| Which stocks fell even though the business grew? Value | – | 8 of 38 | Price, 1Y −36% · Sales, 1Y +25% · EPS, 1Y +73% |
| Where is trading volume surging? Who’s buying and selling | 93Heavy | 38 of 60 | vs normal 1.3x · Traded a day $430.2M · 5D +13.4% |
Go deeper on Stox
NRG’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.
How to read this page
How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.
Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.
Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.
Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.
Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.
For financial statements, earnings and news, see NRG’s full profile on Stox.
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