NRG Energy, Inc. (NRG)

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NRG Energy, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 3 warning events of 2 kinds: a bankruptcy or receivership notice (8-K item 1.03, 2 times, the latest 2017-12-18); a debt default or acceleration notice (8-K item 2.04, the latest 2017-06-14) (its current reports).

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NRG Energy, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $8.9 billion in fiscal 2016 to $31 billion in fiscal 2025, up 14.7% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 11% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 7 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, NRG Energy, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 5.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 100% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 11 sales (11 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-04 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, NRG Energy, Inc. earned about 51 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 94 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 6.1% over the year (the filed statements).

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NRG Energy, Inc.'s standing among 52 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $31 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 1% by size; a net margin of 2.8% ranks in the bottom 20%; revenue growth of -0.9% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 22% (its annual reports).

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NRG Energy, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Gaudette, Robert J (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2026-05-04, 6 months (bottom 7% of its family); the 23 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 2.9 years (bottom 22%); 12 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 23 people in charge now (bottom 23%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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NRG Energy, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $4.7 billion against debt of $16 billion leaves -40.2% of its assets as net cash, bottom 27% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 2.5% of revenue (top 41%) (its annual report).

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NRG Energy, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -0.9% a year over the last three filed years against 14.7% over all 10, slowing (bottom 7% of its family); the newest year grew 9.2% (top 38%); research spending grew -28.6% a year (bottom 45%); capital spending grew 46.2% a year (top 16%) (its annual reports). NRG Energy, Inc. reported 4 lines of business in fiscal 2025: East at $14 billion, Texas at $11 billion, West and Other at $3.2 billion, and 1 more. 3 of 4 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 46% of revenue (its annual report).

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NRG Energy, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $31 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 15.6% above the $27 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 17% of its family); net income of $864 million against a prior three-year average of $715 million (top 44%); a net margin of 2.8% against 2.4% before (bottom 48%) (its annual reports).