NRG Energy Inc.

NRG · Utilities · United States

NRG Energy Inc. (NRG) is a company in the Utilities sector, based in United States. The stock is held in 18 ETFs we track – with its largest weight of 1.00 % in XMUW (msci-world-utilities). Anyone holding one of these ETFs also owns a small indirect stake in NRG Energy.

Above-average ETF coverage: 18 of the 95 ETFs we cover hold NRG Energy, spread across 7 indices. That puts the stock in more ETFs than 79.6 % of the 4,334 stocks we cover.

Held in18 ETFs

Highest weight1.00 %

Indices7

SectorUtilities

CountryUnited States

ISINUS6293775085

WKNA0BLR4

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Price chart

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Performance

Performance
Year to date	-32.6 %	1 year	-34.6 %
1 month	-12.2 %	3 months	-18.7 %
Calendar year 2025	+76.5 %

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Measured in euros, NRG Energy returned -31.3 % year to date and -33.1 % over one year. The gap to the dollar figures above comes from the exchange rate alone: each daily price is converted at the ECB euro reference rate for the same day.

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Risk metrics

Max drawdown-42.4 %

Volatility p.a.51.2 %

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Below peak-41.7 %

Beta to S&P 5001.42

Correlation to S&P 5000.38

The close on Sep 16, 2026 was 41.7 % below the highest close since Aug 12, 2024, reached on Feb 24, 2026. Over the last 252 trading days, on days when the S&P 500 rose or fell 1 %, NRG Energy moved on average 1.42 % in the same direction. The correlation of 0.38 shows how reliable that average is: the broad market explained only a small share of the daily moves.

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Correlated with

The strongest co-movers on top, the most inverse below. Low or negative values improve portfolio diversification.

Correlated with
Instrument	r	−1 … +1
Vistra Corp.	+0.79
Constellation Energy Corporation	+0.69
Rockwell Automation Inc.	+0.61
Cummins Inc.	+0.52
Comfort Systems USA Inc.	+0.51
Eaton Corp. Plc	+0.50
Gartner Inc.	-0.52
Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc.	-0.43
Palantir Technologies Inc. Class A	-0.42

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Key financials

Latest reported fiscal year (FY2025, period end 2025-12-31) as filed with the SEC.

Revenue30.3 bn $

Net income0.9 bn $

Diluted EPS4.01 $

Net margin2.8 %

Revenue growth+9.4 %

Revenue and profit by fiscal year
Fiscal year	Revenue	Net income	Margin
FY2023	28.3	-0.2	-0.7 %
FY2024	27.7	1.1	4.1 %
FY2025	30.3	0.9	2.8 %

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Held in these ETFs

Held in these ETFs
ETF	Index	Weight	per €1,000 in the ETF
XDWU / XMUW	msci-world-utilities	1.00 %	€10.00
WUTI	msci-world-utilities	1.00 %	€10.00
SPYL / SPY5	sp500	0.04 %	€0.40
SPYI / SPSA	msci-acwi-imi	0.04 %	€0.40
SWWD	msci-world	0.03 %	€0.30
SXR8	sp500	0.03 %	€0.30
SPPW	msci-world	0.03 %	€0.30
XD9U / XD9D	msci-usa	0.03 %	€0.30
WIMI	msci-world-imi	0.02 %	€0.20
SPYY	msci-acwi	0.02 %	€0.20
EUNL	msci-world	0.02 %	€0.20
IUSQ	msci-acwi	0.02 %	€0.20
XDWD / XDWL	msci-world	0.02 %	€0.20

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The last column turns the weight into euros: this much of €1,000 invested in one of these funds is allocated to NRG Energy as of the fund's latest holdings list.

Weight in EUNL since 2019

Sep 30, 2019Sep 16, 2026

In EUNL, a fund tracking the MSCI World, NRG Energy had a weight of 0.03 % on Sep 30, 2019 and 0.02 % on Sep 16, 2026. Its share peaked at 0.05 % on Jun 30, 2025. The weight rises and falls with the stock's price relative to the other index members, and it also shifts when the index provider changes the composition.

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How much NRG Energy Inc. overlaps with other holdings in a portfolio is shown by the Portfolio X-Ray and the ETF overlap check.

Stocks with similar ETF exposure

Names that reach a portfolio through largely the same funds as NRG Energy — the figure counts the ETFs holding both.

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Key figures side by side

Key figures compared with stocks of similar ETF exposure
Stock	1 year	Volatility p.a.	Net margin	Revenue growth
NRG Energy	-34.6 %	51.2 %	2.8 %	+9.4 %
CenterPoint Energy	+1.8 %	17.5 %	11.3 %	+9.2 %
Evergy	+12.7 %	16.2 %	15.0 %	+0.0 %
NextEra Energy	+15.1 %	24.8 %	–	–
NiSource Inc	+3.3 %	18.6 %	14.3 %	+23.5 %
Public Service Enterprise Group Inc	-13.3 %	20.5 %	17.3 %	+18.3 %
Vistra	-33.0 %	60.1 %	5.4 %	+19.1 %
Ameren Corporation	+4.5 %	17.5 %	–	+15.4 %
CMS Energy Corporation	-5.7 %	16.9 %	12.9 %	+13.5 %

Return and volatility from our daily closing prices in US dollars; margin and growth from the latest SEC annual filing. Fiscal years do not all end on the same date.