VST Stock Recent News

This eclectic list speaks to some of the hottest investment themes of the year. So let's get straight into the five and why a couple in particular still look like excellent values.

Electricity and power generation stock Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST) is down 1.7% at $171.09 at last check, following news of a fire at the company's battery facility in its Moss Landing power plant in Monterey County, California.

Vistra Corp. NYSE: VST, a utility giant providing electricity and power generation services, was a standout performer in 2024, capturing significant attention from both retail and institutional investors. The stock soared nearly 260% last year, closing 2024 as the second-best-performing S&P 500 stock, trailing only Palantir Technologies.

Vistra Corp. (VST) reachead $169.17 at the closing of the latest trading day, reflecting a -0.79% change compared to its last close.

Last month, OpenAI unveiled its latest model, o3, which exceeded even their own expectations. By one benchmark—the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus for Artificial General Intelligence (ARC-AGI)—OpenAI claims to have achieved AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), though some researchers remain skeptical about whether this milestone has truly been reached.

The energy sector seems to be in constant boom or bust, resulting in wildly swinging performance from year to year relative to most other sectors. That said, energy is still essential for civilization to function and that requires ways to produce and move it. Today, we are comparing several closed-end funds in the energy infrastructure space, including a few that are more heavily focused on MLPs.

Shares in Vistra (VST -1.57%) rose by an incredible 257.9% in 2024, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. The company started the year as an integrated retail electricity and power generation company, and it ended the year by becoming one of the year's hottest artificial intelligence (AI) plays on the market.

Recently, Zacks.com users have been paying close attention to Vistra (VST). This makes it worthwhile to examine what the stock has in store.

Dividend stocks boomed from early July 2024 to late November 2024. However, since then, they have pulled back sharply. I discuss the bad news that may continue weighing on many dividend stocks.

YPF, TTDKY, and VST it to the Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) growth stocks list on January 9, 2024.