20 Trending AI Stocks on Latest News and Analyst Ratings

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7. Vistra Corp. (NYSE:VST)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 92  

Vistra Corp. (NYSE:VST) operates as an integrated retail electricity and power generation company. The stock has rallied in the past few days after investment advisory Jefferies named the firm the top pick in the power sector and reiterated a Buy rating on the stock. Jefferies analyst Julien Dumoulin-Smith noted that Vistra had many ways to win following years of acquisitions, rationalizations, and lessons learned about risk that had positioned it well for the power markets of the present. The analyst added that the timely acquisition of nuclear portfolio Energy Harbor in 2023 gave the company a coveted nuclear portfolio.

The nuclear portfolio of Vistra Corp. (NYSE:VST) provided a traditional opportunity set of collocating a data center at one of its nuclear plants, per the analyst. The investor note highlighted that the efficient gas fleet of Vistra could profit from higher volume, even though a material increase to natural gas volumes was not the biggest upside angle.

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