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AES vs VST

Side-by-side comparison of The AES Corporation (AES) and Vistra Corp. (VST): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both AES and VST operate in Electric Utilities: Central (Utilities), so they compete in similar markets.
  • VST is the larger of the two at $50.16B, about 4.8x AES ($10.46B).
  • Over the past year, AES is up 35.2% and VST is down 13.1% - AES leads by 48.3 points.
  • VST has hit the wire 14 times in the past 4 weeks while AES has been quiet.
  • AES has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 24 for VST).
PerformanceAES+35.19%VST-13.13%
2025-06-09+0.00%2026-06-08
MetricAESVST
Company
The AES Corporation
Vistra Corp.
Price
$14.70+0.10%
$147.18-1.06%
Market cap
$10.46B
$50.16B
1M return
+2.91%
-4.50%
1Y return
+35.19%
-13.13%
Industry
Electric Utilities: Central
Electric Utilities: Central
Exchange
NYSE
NYSE
IPO
News (4w)
0
14
Recent ratings
25
24
AES

The AES Corporation

The AES Corporation operates as a diversified power generation and utility company. It owns and/or operates power plants to generate and sell power to customers, such as utilities, industrial users, and other intermediaries. The company also owns and/or operates utilities to generate or purchase, distribute, transmit, and sell electricity to end-user customers in the residential, commercial, industrial, and governmental sectors; and generates and sells electricity on the wholesale market. It uses a range of fuels and technologies to generate electricity, including natural gas, coal, pet coke, diesel, and oil, as well as renewables, such as hydro, solar, wind, energy storage, biomass, and landfill gas. The company owns and/or operates a generation portfolio of approximately 30,308 megawatts. It has operations in the United States, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia. The company was formerly known as Applied Energy Services, Inc. and changed its name to The AES Corporation in April 2000. The AES Corporation was incorporated in 1981 and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

VST

Vistra Corp.

Vistra Corp., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the electricity business in the United States. It operates through six segments: Retail, Texas, East, West, Sunset, and Asset Closure. The company retails electricity and natural gas to residential, commercial, and industrial customers across 20 states in the United States and the District of Columbia. It is also involved in the electricity generation, wholesale energy sales and purchases, commodity risk management, fuel production, and fuel logistics management activities. The company serves approximately 4.5 million residential, commercial, and industrial customers. It has a generation capacity of approximately 38,700 megawatts with a portfolio of natural gas, nuclear, coal, solar, and battery energy storage facilities. The company was formerly known as Vistra Energy Corp. and changed its name to Vistra Corp. in July 2020. Vistra Corp. was founded in 1882 and is based in Irving, Texas.

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