NRG Energy is a consumer services company. Co. is engaged in producing and selling energy and related products and services. Co. sells power, natural gas, and home and power services, and develops sustainable solutions, under the brand names NRG, Reliant, Direct Energy, Green Mountain Energy, Stream and XOOM Energy. Co.'s segments are: Texas, which includes all activity related to customer, plant and market operations in Texas, other than Cottonwood Generating Station; East, which includes all activity related to customer, plant and market operations in the East; and West/Services/Other, which includes all activity related to customer, plant and market operations in the West and Canada. The NRG YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the NRG YTD return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the total return for a given investment year-to-date for the current calendar year
(up to the end of prior trading session). Arguably, choosing the current calendar year for a measurement
period is on the one hand completely arbitrary, but on the other hand a year-to-date look can be extremely
useful in the context of our country's tax system which taxes gains and income on a calendar year basis.
Thus, researching Year-To-Date Returns is good practice for investors — whether NRG YTD return or other benchmarks/peers
— and when doing so it is also important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's YTD return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon. Our website aims to empower investors
by performing the NRG YTD return calculation (with any dividends reinvested as applicable), and to provide a
coverage universe of many stocks and ETFs to be able to compare YTD returns.
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