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Vistra company profile

CEO
James A. Burke
Employees
6,390
Headquarters
6555 Sierra Drive, Irving, TX 75039, US
Sector
Utilities
Industry
Independent Power Producers
IPO date
5 Oct 2016
Stock exchange
NYSE
ISIN
US92840M1027

Website:vistracorp.com

About the company

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.

Employees

Vistra had about 6,390 employees at the end of fiscal year 2025 (31 December 2025), by its annual report. That is 6.7% fewer than a year before.

Employees Change on the year
Fiscal yearEmployeesChange on the yearRevenue per employeeNet income per employee
FY20256,390-6.72%2.78M USD147.73K USD
FY20246,850+40.66%2.51M USD388.18K USD
FY20234,870-0.81%3.03M USD306.57K USD
FY20224,910-2.96%2.80M USD-249.90K USD
FY20215,060-5.68%2.39M USD-251.78K USD
FY20205,365-2.01%2.13M USD118.55K USD
FY20195,475+3.79%2.16M USD169.50K USD
FY20185,275+27.11%1.73M USD-10.24K USD
FY20174,150—1.31M USD-61.20K USD

Employees at each fiscal year end, as the company reports them in its annual report (10-K); revenue and net income per employee are the fiscal year's over that count.

Who owns Vistra

Institutions such as funds, banks and insurers held 84.5% of Vistra's shares on 30 June 2026, 1,522 of them reporting holdings to the SEC; the rest is held by individual investors and other shareholders.

Institutions 84.5%Other shareholders 15.5%

Shares free to trade

Free float 316.72M shares ·93.3% Closely held 22.67M shares ·6.7%

Closely held shares belong to insiders, founders and owners of more than 5%, and seldom change hands. The free float is the rest: the shares anyone can buy and sell.

How Vistra pays its executives

The chief executive was paid 15.99M USD for fiscal 2025, 72% of it in shares and options.

Name and positionSalaryStock awardsCash incentiveOther payTotal pay
James A. Burke President and Chief Executive Officer1.39M USD11.43M USD2.97M USD198.39K USD15.99M USD
Stacey Doré Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer & EVP Public Affairs654.72K USD5.20M USD869.95K USD35.80K USD6.76M USD
Kristopher E. Moldovan EVP and Chief Financial Officer665.15K USD5.20M USD810.16K USD36.94K USD6.71M USD
Scott A. Hudson EVP and President Vistra Retail650.00K USD2.60M USD838.16K USD42.33K USD4.13M USD
Stephanie Zapata Moore EVP, General Counsel, and Chief Compliance Officer604.77K USD1.82M USD709.04K USD38.21K USD3.17M USD

FY2025 · From the company's proxy statements to the SEC: what each named executive was paid for the fiscal year, shares and options at their value when granted. The latest filing

Common questions about Vistra

Source: Financial Modeling Prep