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NRG vs POR

Side-by-side comparison of NRG Energy Inc. (NRG) and Portland General Electric Co (POR): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both NRG and POR operate in Electric Utilities: Central (Utilities), so they compete in similar markets.
  • NRG is the larger of the two at $29.31B, about 5.0x POR ($5.81B).
  • Over the past year, NRG is down 8.7% and POR is up 22.2% - POR leads by 30.8 points.
  • NRG has been more active in the news (14 items in the past 4 weeks vs 1 for POR).
  • Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
PerformanceNRG-8.66%POR+22.15%
2025-06-23+0.00%2026-06-22
MetricNRGPOR
Company
NRG Energy Inc.
Portland General Electric Co
Price
$138.83+2.75%
$50.15-0.10%
Market cap
$29.31B
$5.81B
1M return
+3.62%
+0.91%
1Y return
-8.66%
+22.15%
Industry
Electric Utilities: Central
Electric Utilities: Central
Exchange
NYSE
NYSE
IPO
News (4w)
14
1
Recent ratings
25
25
NRG

NRG Energy Inc.

NRG Energy, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated power company in the United States. It operates through Texas, East, and West. The company is involved in the producing, selling, and delivering electricity and related products and services to 3.6 million residential, industrial, and commercial consumers. It generates electricity using natural gas, coal, oil, solar, nuclear, and battery storage. The company also provides system power, distributed generation, renewable products, backup generation, storage and distributed solar, demand response, energy efficiency, advisory, and on-site energy solutions; and carbon management and specialty services. In addition, it trades in electric power, natural gas, and related commodities; environmental products; weather products; and financial products, including forwards, futures, options, and swaps. Further, the company procures fuels; provides transportation services; and directly sells energy, services, and products and services to retail customers under the NRG, Reliant, Green Mountain Energy, Stream, XOOM Energy, and other brand names. As of December 31, 2020, it owns power generation portfolio with approximately 23,000 megawatts of capacity at 33 plants. NRG Energy, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey.

POR

Portland General Electric Co

Portland General Electric Company, an integrated electric utility company, engages in the generation, wholesale purchase, transmission, distribution, and retail sale of electricity in the state of Oregon. The company operates six thermal plants; seven hydroelectric plants; and three wind farms. As of December 31, 2020, it owned an electric transmission system consisting of 1,269 circuit miles, including 287 circuit miles of 500 kilovolt line, 414 circuit miles of 230 kilovolt line, and 568 miles of 115 kilovolt line. The company has 27,939 circuit miles of distribution lines. It also purchases and sells wholesale natural gas in the United States and Canada. The company serves approximately 908 thousand residential, commercial, and industrial customers in 51 cities. Portland General Electric Company was founded in 1889 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

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