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Talen Energy Corporation (TLN)

Nasdaq: TLN · Electric Services · Houston, TX · filing with the SEC since 2014
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Grade5.0
◀ Past 6.3● Present 4.2▶ Future 5.2
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The grade of Talen Energy Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.0/10
◀ Past6.325% of the headline
● Present4.245% of the headline
▶ Future5.230% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

Of the nine metrics, 7 read as filed from the record and 2 are SI estimates, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

6.3/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
6.6/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 45% of this tense · 66th percentile among 59 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Talen Energy Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
0.9/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

-5.8% a year over 3 filed years; profitable in 1 of 3.

weight 22% of this tense · 9th percentile among 51 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Talen Energy Corporation's 3 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $3.1 billion in fiscal 2022 to $2.6 billion in fiscal 2025, down 5.8% a year; it rose in 1 of 2 years; the deepest fall was 32% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 1 of 3 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span-5.8%bottom 1% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 11% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 9% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak31.5%bottom 15% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
9.5/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 5.3% a year. 100% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 1 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 95th percentile among 39 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 11 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Talen Energy Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 5.3% 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 1 sale and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 8% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 2% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

4.2/1045% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
4.0/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE -20%: lost 20¢ per shareholder dollar. Leverage 90%: owes 90¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 40th percentile among 53 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Talen Energy Corporation lost about 20 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 90 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 19.1% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 8% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 12% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 1% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
2.0/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 21% of 52 in its family; net margin -8.5%.

weight 33% of this tense · 21st percentile among 52 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Talen Energy Corporation's standing among 52 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.6 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 42% by size; a net margin of -8.5% ranks in the bottom 14%; revenue growth of -5.8% a year over the last 2 filed years ranks in the bottom 5% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$2.58Bbottom 42% of its family
  • net margin-8.5%bottom 14% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-5.8%bottom 5% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

SI estimate
7.7/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 7.7/10, confidence 35 of 100 (one part).

weight 22% of this tense · 77th percentile among 37 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
Read from one part only, officer and director changes on Form 8-K over three years, against the people in charge, which ranks in the top 23% of 37 in its family; the record of its people begins on 2024-07-09 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 2.3 years and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
What the record cannot read
The record of its people begins on 2024-07-09 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 2.3 years and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
How it was reasoned
one part: officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge, the one part on file, ranked among 37 in its family.
Confidence
35 of 100
What would change it
A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Talen Energy Corporation's leadership is put at 7.7 of 10 with a confidence of 35 of 100, because read from one part only, officer and director changes on Form 8-K over three years, against the people in charge, which ranks in the top 23% of 37 in its family; the record of its people begins on 2024-07-09 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 2.3 years and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge. A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

5.2/1030% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Room to expand

as filed
4.7/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 47% of 47 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 47th percentile among 47 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Talen Energy Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $689 million against debt of $6.8 billion leaves -55.9% of its assets as net cash, bottom 3% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 23.5% of revenue (top 10%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-55.9%bottom 3% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue23.5%top 10% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
5.3/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 47% of 51 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 53rd percentile among 51 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Talen Energy Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -5.8% a year over the last three filed years against -5.8% over all 3, speeding up (top 39% of its family); the newest year grew 22% (top 7%); capital spending grew -14.2% a year (bottom 5%) (its annual reports). Talen Energy Corporation reported 2 product lines in fiscal 2025: Energy and Other at $2.1 billion (82%), Operating Revenue Capacity at $485 million (19%); 2 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+0.0 points a yeartop 39% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth22.0%top 7% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-14.2%bottom 5% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

SI estimate
5.4/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

SI estimate 5.4/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 33% of this tense · 50th percentile among 49 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
The record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 49 members with one.
What the record cannot read
The record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change.
How it was reasoned
family median, 49 readings behind it.
Confidence
20 of 100
What would change it
Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Talen Energy Corporation's expectations vs reality is put at 5.4 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because the record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 49 members with one. Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton TLN · research, not advice