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Vistra Corp.

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Vistra Corp.

VST·NYSE·Energy & Transportation·CIK 0001692819

Vistra is an integrated retail electricity and power generation company that provides power resources to customers, businesses, and communities from California to Maine. The company combines a customer-centric approach to retail sales with power generation. Its integrated power generation and wholesale operation allows it to obtain electricity to serve customers. This integrated model enables the company to structure products and contracts. Vistra brings its products and services to market in 18 states and the District of Columbia, including all major competitive wholesale power markets in the U.S. It serves approximately 5 million residential, commercial, and industrial retail customers with electricity and natural gas. The company's generation fleet totals approximately 44,000 megawatts of generation capacity powered by a diverse portfolio, including natural gas, nuclear, coal, solar, and battery energy storage facilities. Vistra's operations are aligned into five reportable business segments: Retail, Texas, East, West, and Asset Closure. The Texas, East, and West segments include its electricity generation operations. The Asset Closure segment is engaged in the decommissioning and reclamation of retired generation facilities, including mines, and battery removal and remediation activities. Vistra is one of the largest competitive residential retail electricity providers in the U.S. Its retail operations are engaged in retail sales of electricity, natural gas, and related services to approximately 5 million customers. Substantially all of its retail activities are conducted by TXU Energy, Ambit Energy, Dynegy Energy Services, Homefield Energy, Energy Harbor, and U.S. Gas & Electric across 16 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The largest portion of its retail operations are in Texas, where it provides retail electricity to approximately 2.6 million customers.

Vistra Corp. (NYSE:VST) is a publicly traded company in the Energy & Transportation sector. Wiseek has independently scored 22 items for VST at importance 7 or higher on its 1–10 market-impact scale. Its most recent item scored 7 or higher is dated 2026-10-05, rated 7/10. Across its 20 most recent items scored 7 or higher, the top rating is 9/10, with 13 rated 8 or above. Recent SEC coverage for VST spans FWP, 424B5, 10-Q, 8-K.

Recent high-impact activity:

  • DoE Confirms $4.2B Loan to Vistra for Nuclear Expansion, Shares Jump 3.5%
  • US Offers $4B Loan to Vistra to Expand Nuclear Capacity
  • Vistra Prices $1.5B Junior Subordinated Notes at 7.000% and 7.250%
  • Vistra Prices $1.5B Junior Subordinated Notes Offering at 7.00% and 7.25%
  • Vistra Files Preliminary Prospectus for Junior Subordinated Notes Offering to Redeem Preferred Stock

Financial Snapshot

Fiscal year ended December 31, 2025
Revenue
$17.74B
Net Income
$944M
Diluted EPS
$2.18
Op. Cash Flow
$4.07B
Free Cash Flow
$1.32B
Operating Income
$1.91B
Cash & Equivalents
$785M
Total Debt
$18.84B
Debt / Equity
3.70×
Net Margin
5.3%
Shares Outstanding
338.06M sh
Source: 10-K · filed 2026-02-27 · accession 0001692819-26-000006

Short Interest & Short Volume

2.04 days to cover

FINRA reported short interest of 9,701,865 shares in VST as of the September 15, 2026 settlement, a 10.0% decrease from the prior period — about 2.0 days to cover at its recent average daily volume. On October 7, 2026, 47.6% of VST volume reported to FINRA trade-reporting facilities was marked short.

Short interest (bi-monthly positions)9,701,865 shares as of September 15, 2026
Change vs prior period▼ 10.0%
Days to cover2.04 at avg daily volume of 4,746,115
Daily short volume (FINRA facilities)47.6% of 5,890,225 shares on October 7, 2026
5-day average short volume46.8%

Daily short sale volume covers trades reported to FINRA trade-reporting facilities and is not the same as short interest (bi-monthly reported positions). Source: FINRA — FINRA is the owner and source of this short interest and short sale volume data; it may not be redistributed.

Dilution Risk

Low risk

Filing-implied dilution signals for VST, detected from its recent SEC filings · based on capital-structure filings through 2026-09-11.

1 recent capital raise1 shelf registration

Universal Shelf Registration Filed · No Immediate Dilution

A filing-implied signal, not a realized share count. How Wiseek tracks dilution →

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$160.19 -6.53% today
52-week range · as of 2026-09-11 $132.66 – $219.82
Market cap
$53.77B
Volume
4.8M (0.8× avg)
3-mo avg 5.8M
Live data · 2026-10-08 16:22 UTC · Market open

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VST
Oct 05, 2026, 6:36 PM EDT
Source: Seeking Alpha
Importance Score:
7
Price at Filing: $146.72
Real-time Price: $160.19 info
Change: +$13.47 (+9%) info
Market Cap: $53.765B info
VST
Oct 02, 2026, 3:20 PM EDT
Source: Reuters
Importance Score:
8
Updated Oct 3, 9:26 AM ET — The loan amount is $4.2 billion, to be announced Monday at Vistra's Ohio nuclear plant, and will fund uprates at at least three of its four…
Price at Filing: $139.49
Real-time Price: $160.19 info
Change: +$20.70 (+15%) info
Market Cap: $53.765B info
VST
Sep 10, 2026, 8:56 PM EDT
Filing Type: FWP
Importance Score:
7
Price at Filing: $148.68
Real-time Price: $160.19 info
Change: +$11.51 (+8%) info
Market Cap: $53.765B info
VST
Sep 10, 2026, 6:48 PM EDT
Source: PR Newswire
Importance Score:
7
Price at Filing: $147.18
Real-time Price: $160.19 info
Change: +$13.01 (+9%) info
Market Cap: $53.765B info
VST
Sep 10, 2026, 9:26 AM EDT
Filing Type: 424B5
Importance Score:
7
Price at Filing: $148.80
Real-time Price: $160.19 info
Change: +$11.39 (+8%) info
Market Cap: $53.765B info
VST
Sep 10, 2026, 9:25 AM EDT
Source: PR Newswire
Importance Score:
7
Price at Filing: $148.75
Real-time Price: $160.19 info
Change: +$11.44 (+8%) info
Market Cap: $53.765B info
VST
Aug 07, 2026, 6:11 PM EDT
Filing Type: 10-Q
Importance Score:
8
Price at Filing: $142.15
Real-time Price: $160.19 info
Change: +$18.04 (+13%) info
Market Cap: $53.765B info
VST
Aug 07, 2026, 1:57 PM EDT
Source: Benzinga
Importance Score:
8
Price at Filing: $141.57
Real-time Price: $160.19 info
Change: +$18.62 (+13%) info
Market Cap: $53.765B info
VST
Aug 07, 2026, 7:41 AM EDT
Source: dpa-AFX
Importance Score:
7
Price at Filing: $137.91
Real-time Price: $160.19 info
Change: +$22.28 (+16%) info
Market Cap: $53.765B info
VST
Aug 07, 2026, 7:00 AM EDT
Filing Type: 8-K
Importance Score:
8
Price at Filing: $145.00
Real-time Price: $160.19 info
Change: +$15.19 (+10%) info
Market Cap: $53.765B info
VST
Jul 14, 2026, 5:29 PM EDT
Filing Type: 8-K
Importance Score:
7
Price at Filing: $160.25
Real-time Price: $160.19 info
Change: -$0.060 (-0.04%) info
Market Cap: $53.765B info
VST
Jun 30, 2026, 4:33 PM EDT
Source: Wiseek News
Importance Score:
8
Price at Filing: $158.68
Real-time Price: $160.19 info
Change: +$1.51 (+0.95%) info
Market Cap: $53.765B info
VST
Jun 30, 2026, 4:30 PM EDT
Filing Type: 8-K
Importance Score:
9
Price at Filing: $158.68
Real-time Price: $160.19 info
Change: +$1.51 (+0.95%) info
Market Cap: $53.765B info
VST
Jun 30, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT
Source: Dow Jones Newswires
Importance Score:
8
Price at Filing: $158.76
Real-time Price: $160.19 info
Change: +$1.43 (+0.90%) info
Market Cap: $53.765B info
VST
May 07, 2026, 7:30 PM EDT
Filing Type: 10-Q
Importance Score:
8
Price at Filing: $156.87
Real-time Price: $160.19 info
Change: +$3.32 (+2%) info
Market Cap: $53.765B info
VST
May 07, 2026, 8:06 AM EDT
Source: Reuters
Importance Score:
9
Price at Filing: $168.00
Real-time Price: $160.19 info
Change: -$7.81 (-5%) info
Market Cap: $53.765B info
VST
May 07, 2026, 7:01 AM EDT
Filing Type: 8-K
Importance Score:
8
Price at Filing: $165.00
Real-time Price: $160.19 info
Change: -$4.81 (-3%) info
Market Cap: $53.765B info
VST
Apr 28, 2026, 4:15 PM EDT
Filing Type: 8-K
Importance Score:
8
Price at Filing: $161.73
Real-time Price: $160.19 info
Change: -$1.54 (-0.95%) info
Market Cap: $53.765B info
VST
Feb 26, 2026, 7:00 AM EST
Filing Type: 8-K
Importance Score:
8
Price at Filing: $175.89
Real-time Price: $160.19 info
Change: -$15.70 (-9%) info
Market Cap: $53.765B info
VST
Jan 27, 2026, 5:06 PM EST
Filing Type: 8-K
Importance Score:
8
Price at Filing: $163.82
Real-time Price: $160.19 info
Change: -$3.63 (-2%) info
Market Cap: $53.765B info
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