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VSTVistra Corp.

Utilities · Electric Utilities · NYSE

Vistra is an integrated retail electricity and power generation company that provides essential power resources to customers, businesses, and communities from California to Maine. 10-K, Item 1

Employees
6,390
Headquarters
Irving, TX
CEO
James A. Burke
Next results
around Feb 25, 2027
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Dilution: new shares, stock pay and buybacks

prospectuses (S-3, 424B) of the last three years and the 10-K cash flow From EDGAR

Shares offered

Since Nov 11, 2023: 1 shelf registration; also 3 resales by holders.

“Stock Preferred Stock Vistra Corp. may offer any of the securities described in this prospectus in one or more offerings from time to time in amounts authorized from time to time.”

S-3ASR, Sep 9, 2026 ↗
Every offering filing →

Paid in stock

$113.0M

stock-based pay, year to Dec 31, 2025

Bought back

$1.0B

cash paid for its own shares, year to Dec 31, 2025: 9.1× the stock pay

Diluted shares: 345.66M in the year to Dec 31, 2025 2025 -2.0%2024 -6.0%2023 -11.2%2022 -12.4%

Change in the diluted weighted average share count from the fiscal year before, stock splits taken out. Bars use one scale for stock pay and buybacks. Prospectuses are read from their cover page; preliminary ones are left out. Cash & buybacks, year by year → · How

Where the cash came from and where it went

FY2025, from the cash flow statement in the 10-K, added up.

Operating cash flowDebt raisedCash on hand usedCapital spendingBuybacksDividendsDebt repaidOther, net Operating cash flow: $4.1B Operating cash flow $4.1B Debt raised: $2.5B Debt raised $2.5B Cash on hand used: $400.0M Cash on hand used $400.0M Capital spending: $2.8B Capital spending $2.8B Buybacks: $1.0B Buybacks $1.0B Dividends: $306.0M Dividends $306.0M Debt repaid: $2.6B Debt repaid $2.6B Other, net: $306.0M Other, net $306.0M

Each number is a line of the cash flow statement as the company tagged it. "Other, net" is what those lines do not cover (investments bought and sold, other financing and investing lines, and exchange rates); Tickdelta does not estimate it.

Each CEO's years

The CEO of each fiscal year as named in the proxy's pay versus performance table, and what the 10-Ks show for those years. Facts, not a grade.

James A. Burke (PEO)

FY2023 to FY2025 · 3 years in the table
Operating cash flow
$14.1B
Capital spending
$6.5B
Acquisitions
$3.1B
Buybacks
$3.5B
Dividends
$924.0M
Stock-based pay
$290.0M
Diluted shares since FY2022
-18.2%
Revenue since FY2022
+13%
Debt since FY2022
+$6.2B
CEO pay (reported)
$38.7M
The proxy that names the CEO ↗

Curtis A. Morgan (PEO)

FY2021 · 1 year in the table
Operating cash flow
-$206.0M
Capital spending
$1.0B
Buybacks
$471.0M
Dividends
$290.0M
Stock-based pay
$47.0M
Diluted shares since FY2020
-1.8%
Revenue since FY2020
+55%
Debt since FY2020
+$1.4B
CEO pay (reported)
$10.1M
The proxy that names the CEO ↗
Buybacks, year to Dec 31, 2025
$1.0B
cash paid for its own shares
Paid in stock to employees
$113.0M
buybacks were 9.1× this
Share count, 1 year
-2.0%
fewer shares: each share owns more
Share count, 3 years
-18.2%
diluted average shares
Fiscal year toBuybacksDividendsStock payShares issued for cashDiluted shares
2025-12-31$1.0B $306.0M$113.0M -345.66M
2024-12-31$1.3B $305.0M$100.0M -352.57M
2023-12-31$1.2B $313.0M$77.0M -375.19M
2022-12-31$1.9B $302.0M$63.0M -422.45M
2021-12-31$471.0M $290.0M$47.0M -482.21M

From the XBRL of the 10-Ks (cash flow statement and diluted weighted average shares); each year as reported in the latest 10-K that includes it. Concepts: buybacks = PaymentsForRepurchaseOfCommonStock; dividends = PaymentsOfDividendsCommonStock; sbc = ShareBasedCompensation; diluted_shares = WeightedAverageNumberOfDilutedSharesOutstanding.

Price paid per share

What VST paid on average for each share it bought back, each fiscal year: dollars spent divided by shares bought, both from the 10-K.

Cheapest year
$20.90
fiscal year to Dec 31, 2021
Dearest year
$154.65
fiscal year to Dec 31, 2025
Average over these years
$31.45
$7.4B spent
Fiscal year toShares boughtSpentAverage price
2025-12-31 6.55M$1.0B $154.65
2024-12-31 16.56M$1.2B $75.48
2023-12-31 44.99M$1.3B $28.16
2022-12-31 78.47M$1.8B $23.41
2021-12-31 27.99M$585.0M $20.90
2019-12-31 27.00M$641.0M $23.74
2018-12-31 32.82M$778.0M $23.71

Shares and dollars from the statement of shareholders' equity (the cash flow line also counts shares withheld for taxes, so it is not used). Share counts filed before a stock split are put on today's count. A year where the 10-K does not tag both numbers is left out.

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