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We have scored 90 news catalysts on Vistra Corp. (VST) over the past 12 months. The biggest single-day move next to one of them came May 9, 2026, when VST closed −4.0%: “BlackRock's Larry Fink Says AI Is Creating a New Trillion Dollar Asset Class — And Trump's Policies May Accelerate It”. Coverage across the window leans positive (average ticker sentiment +0.55). Most of the impact sits in sector utilities and forward growth expectations.
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Market cap
47.4B
P/E
—
EPS
—
Beta
1.41
52W range
132.66-219.82
Day range
140.21–144.44
Open
143.41
Prev close
143.56
Volume
5M
Avg volume
4.6M
Dividend
0.91
IPO
2016-10-05
Analysts publish price targets on VST, and they disagree. Where the share price actually sits among them shows which of their arguments the market is buying — and which it is ignoring.
11 analyst price targets from $169 to $298
as of 2026-08-27
The market is 34% below the median target — more cautious than the analysts.
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Suppliers, customers, partners and competitors, derived from what the news actually says about Vistra Corp. — not a sector bucket. Click an edge to see the articles that established the link.
Suppliers, customers, partners and competitors of Vistra Corp., taken from what the news actually said about them rather than from a sector bucket. The count is how many articles established each link.
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Vistra Corp., along with its various holdings, functions as a unified entity primarily engaged in retail electricity supply and power generation. The company organizes its operations across six distinct segments: Retail, Texas, East, West, Sunset, and Asset Closure. It directly provides electricity and natural gas to residential, commercial, and industrial clients throughout 20 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Beyond its retail endeavors, Vistra also participates in generating electricity, facilitating wholesale energy transactions, managing commodity-related risks, producing fuel, and overseeing fuel logistics. With approximately 4.3 million customers, Vistra commands an impressive generation capacity of about 38,700 megawatts. This capacity is sustained by a diverse portfolio of facilities, including those powered by natural gas, nuclear energy, coal, solar, and advanced battery energy storage systems. The enterprise, initially known as Vistra Energy Corp., adopted its current name, Vistra Corp., in July 2020. Tracing its origins back to 1882, Vistra Corp. maintains its corporate headquarters in Irving, Texas.
The reconstruction
The price sits 34% below the median published target and at the very bottom of the $169-$298 analyst range, meaning the market fully acknowledges the data-center narrative but refuses to pay for its execution until cash flows materialize.
What the disagreement turns on
Will Vistra actually sign and execute long-term, above-market data-center power contracts at sufficient scale to lift its 2027 EBITDA above $7.4B and its free-cash-flow margin above 0.8%, and the available data cannot settle this because contract pricing is not measurable.
The price pays for
It declines to pay for
Written by a language model from the published models, the reported segments and a reverse-DCF — not a recommendation, and not a house view.
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