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Company Dossier · Utilities

Vistra Corp.

VSTNYSEElectric UtilitiesDOVER, US-DE, USLarge capWebsite ↗
  • S&P 500
  • Russell 1000

What Vistra Corp. is doing, read from its filings, its own words and the news, with every figure dated and sourced. Not investment advice: no ratings, no price targets.

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The latest read

Computed from the data on Oct 22, 2026. Every figure links back to its source in the sections below.

  • Revenue over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $19.0 billion, up 19% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital expenditure) over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $2.26 billion, up 37% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Capital expenditure over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $2.87 billion, up 12% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Share buybacks in the fiscal year to December 31, 2025: $1.03 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
  • Long-term debt issued in the fiscal year to December 31, 2025: $2.51 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
  • Latest earnings call or results release (August 7, 2026): sentiment 0.30 on a −1 to +1 scale (mixed), confidence 0.70 of 1.Palanor Discourse
  • Latest annual report (filed February 27, 2026): 2 risk factors added, 0 removed.Risk Factor Changes (10-K Item 1A)
  • Insiders were net sellers in Q3 2026: $8.6 million on the open market.SEC Form 4
  • 1,416 institutional managers reported a position at June 30, 2026 (+93 on the quarter before).SEC Form 13F
  • H-1B filings certified in Q2 2026: 7 (13 a year earlier).U.S. Department of Labor (OFLC)
  • Headlines in the last 30 days: 6, of which 2 read positive and 0 negative.Palanor headline tone

Risk events (12 months): 1 — latest OSHA inspection, Apr 21, 2026 →

Company Posture

How Company Posture is measured →

What Vistra Corp. is doing, on three axes, from its filings and its own words, as of 2026-10-22. A description, not a rating: Company Posture never says whether to buy.

Steady · Mixed

Expanding ↔ Retrenching

Steady

RetrenchingExpanding

Confident ↔ Hedging

Mixed

HedgingConfident

Pressure

Components only: Not yet shown as a score: in the back-test it did not add to a naive reader's forecast of impairment, debt acceleration or bankruptcy filings (8-K 2.06, 2.04, 1.03) (not enough events (17 in half 1; needs 20)).

Credit

How these are built →

Vistra Corp.'s borrowing from its SEC filings: the bonds it priced and the debt on its latest balance sheet. A description, not a rating.

Debt on the balance sheet

$19.6B

  • Due within a year $1.9B
  • Longer term $17.7B
  • Default point $10.7B (short + ½ long)

Finance leases included · Jun 30, 2026 filing

Bonds priced, last 12 months

None

U.S. dollar tranches with a term sheet on EDGAR. Deals sold under Rule 144A file none and are not counted.

Charts

Live charts: each one redraws from today’s data and has an image link to paste into a document or slide.

Cash flow

Business

Vistra Corp.: free cash flow, trailing twelve months

Operating cash flow minus capital expenditure, $ billions, from SEC filings

$2.3BData to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Vistra Corp.: operating cash flow and capital expenditure

Trailing twelve months, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Vistra Corp.: revenue, trailing twelve months

$ billions, from SEC filings

$19.0BData to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Capital returned and raised

Business

Vistra Corp.: share buybacks by fiscal year

Cash paid to repurchase common stock, $ billions, from the 10-K

$1.0BData to Dec 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Vistra Corp.: debt issued and repaid by fiscal year

Long-term debt, $ billions, from the 10-K

Data to Dec 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Vistra Corp.: debt maturity schedule, latest annual report

Scheduled repayments of long-term debt principal by year from the fiscal year end, $ billions, from the 10-K

Data to Dec 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Vistra Corp.: debt due within a year and cash

At each balance-sheet date, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Vistra Corp.: interest coverage

Operating income ÷ interest expense, trailing twelve months, from SEC filings

3.2Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

What the company says

Business

Vistra Corp.: guidance raised minus lowered

Guidance Ledger statements by quarter

2.0Data to Dec 2024
ImageDataGuidance Ledger by Palanor · source: SEC EDGAR
Business

Vistra Corp.: earnings call sentiment

Palanor Discourse score per call, −1 to +1

0.30Data to Aug 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
Business

Vistra Corp.: earnings call confidence

Palanor Discourse score per call, 0 to 1

0.70Data to Aug 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
Business

Vistra Corp.: risk factors added per annual report

New Item 1A risk factors in each 10-K

2.0Data to Feb 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Hiring and ownership

Business

Vistra Corp.: H-1B filings certified

Labor Condition Applications by quarter received

7.0Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data, dol.gov
Business

Vistra Corp.: insider net buying

Open-market purchases minus sales by officers and directors, $ millions, by quarter

−$8.6MData 22 days ago
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Vistra Corp.: institutional holders

Managers reporting a position on Form 13F, by quarter

1,416Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

In the news

Headlines that name Vistra Corp., with the publisher and a link. The tone is read from each headline’s own words, never from a summary of the article.

30 days
6 headlines
33% positive · 0% negative
90 days
7 headlines
29% positive · 0% negative

Filings and records

The last two years of notable 8-Ks, offerings, annual reports, federal awards, lobbying reports, patents and other public records, newest first.

  1. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (PUBLIC STRATEGIES WASHINGTON, INC.)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  2. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (VISTRA CORPORATE SERVICES COMPANY (FKA VISTRA CORP.))third_quarter 2026 · $0.3 million
  3. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (BRACEWELL LLP)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  4. Oct 19, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (ARENTFOX SCHIFF LLP)third_quarter 2026
  5. Oct 16, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  6. Oct 14, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (HUNTON ANDREWS KURTH LLP (FORMERLY HUNTON & WILLIAMS LLP))third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  7. Oct 5, 20268-K
    Material agreement signedItem 1.01
  8. Sep 24, 20268-K
    Material agreement signedItem 1.01
  9. Jul 29, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (PUBLIC STRATEGIES WASHINGTON, INC.)third_quarter 2022 · $0.1 million
  10. Jul 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (PUBLIC STRATEGIES WASHINGTON, INC.)second_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  11. Jul 16, 20268-K
    Material agreement signedItem 1.01
  12. Jun 30, 20268-K
    Material agreement signedItem 1.01
  13. May 4, 20268-K
    Shareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
  14. Apr 28, 20268-K
    Material agreement signedItem 1.01
  15. Apr 21, 2026Risk event
    OSHA referral inspection: LUMINANT GENERATION COMPANY, LLCOSHA
  16. Feb 27, 202610-K
    Annual report (10-K)2 risk factors added, 0 removed
  17. Jan 27, 20268-K
    Material agreement signedItem 1.01
  18. Jan 5, 20268-K
    Material agreement signedItem 1.01
  19. Oct 28, 20258-K
    Acquisition or sale completedItem 2.01
  20. Oct 15, 20258-K
    Material agreement signedItem 1.01
  21. Oct 6, 20258-K
    Material agreement signedItem 1.01
  22. Jul 16, 20258-K
    Material agreement signedItem 1.01
  23. May 21, 20258-K
    Material agreement signedItem 1.01
  24. May 5, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  25. May 5, 20258-K
    Shareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
  26. Mar 12, 2025Risk event
    OSHA referral inspection: LUMINANT GENERATION COMPANY, LLCOSHA
  27. Feb 28, 202510-K
    Annual report (10-K)1 risk factors added, 2 removed
  28. Dec 30, 20248-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  29. Dec 19, 20248-K
    Material agreement signedItem 1.01
  30. Dec 16, 20248-K
    Material agreement signedItem 1.01
  31. Dec 9, 20248-K
    Material agreement signedItem 1.01
  32. Nov 20, 20248-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  33. Nov 19, 20248-K
    Material agreement signedItem 1.01
  34. Feb 29, 202410-K
    Annual report (10-K)2 risk factors added, 2 removed
  35. Jun 27, 2023Patent
    Patent granted: SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HOME AUTOMATION SERVICESUS 11687847

Peers

Companies in the same industry in the S&P 500, Russell 1000 or MidCap 400, closest in revenue first. Trailing twelve months, from SEC filings.

CompanyRevenueFree cash flowThrough
Edison International EIX$19.6B−$0.6BMar 31, 2026
American Electric Power AEP$22.0B$2.6BMar 31, 2026
FirstEnergy FE$15.5B−$1.7BMar 31, 2026
Constellation Energy CEG$24.8B$0.3BJun 30, 2026
Exelon EXC$24.8B−$2.2BMar 31, 2026
Eversource Energy ES$14.0B$0.3BJun 30, 2026
NextEra Energy NEE$25.9B—Mar 31, 2026
Entergy ETR$13.3B−$2.8BMar 31, 2026

Identity

SEC CIK
1692819
LEI
549300KP43CPCUJOOG15
Wikidata
Q104158381
SAM UEI
G1QLW6S552L1
SAM UEI
UYXBWJFEPL43

Built from SEC EDGAR filings (public domain), the Guidance and KPI Ledgers, Palanor Discourse, U.S. Department of Labor filings, USPTO, USAspending and Senate lobbying records, and rights-checked news headlines. Updated nightly; this page was built Oct 22, 2026. How the Dossier is built

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