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TLN

Talen Energy Corporation Common Stock

Utilities · ·

$338.31

$8.47 (+2.6%)

Market Cap

$16.21B

Day Range

$329.43 - $345.00

52-Week Range

$301.45 - $451.28

Beta

Next Earnings

03.11.2026

TLN is a stock from the Utilities sectorElectricity, water, and residential gas — steady demand and heavy regulation, considered a defensive, dividend-paying sector.

🏢 Similar Stocks in the Same Sector

-9.9% (1Y)

Investor Score
38/ 100F
🔴 Weak

This score and all analysis on this page are for informational and educational purposes only and do not constitute investment advice. Read the full disclaimer

📈16FTechnical
💰22FFundamental
🚀54C-Growth
💎38FValuation
📰100A+News
🏦42DQuality
⚠️36FRisk

Weighted: Technical 25% · Fundamental 20% · Growth 15% · Valuation 15% · News 10% · Quality 10% · Risk 5%

🔍 Cross-Check

Overall Score

🔴 Bearish

Technical Trend

🔴 Bearish

Insiders

🔴 Bearish

✅ Why is the score relatively high?

  • 🟢 Revenue growth (last year): 22.0%
  • 🟢 Free cash flow growth: 254.4%

⚠️ What's concerning?

  • 🔴 Estimated fair value: $42.31 vs. price $338.31 (-87.5%)
  • 🔴 Operating margin: -3.5% (negative)
  • 🔴 Net margin: -8.5% (negative)
  • 🔴 Operating margin is eroding over time
  • 🔴 ATR: 5.9% of price

🚦 Quality & Risk Checks

🔴 Operating margin stability🟡 Conservative leverage🔴 Daily volatility (ATR)🔴 Leverage risk🟡 Liquidity risk

📰 News Trend

Based on real financial news (Finnhub)
🟢 Positive

Everyone's writing about Talen Energy Corporation Common Stock. News trend score: 100. Reason: 14 of the last 20 articles are positive, versus 1 negative.

News trend analysis is based on article sentiment only, and is not investment advice or financial counsel. Read the full disclaimer

📈 Technical Analysis

Based on the last 251 trading days, calculated from real price data. Click an indicator for details and a chart.

🔴 Most indicators support a downtrend (0 bullish · 9 bearish · 2 neutral)

Conclusions

  • 🔴Price vs. SMA 50Price is below the 50-day average
  • 🔴Price vs. SMA 200Price is below the 200-day average
  • 🔴MACDMACD histogram is negative — falling momentum
  • 🔴RSIRSI 43.0 — weak/negative bias
  • 🟡Stochastic%K 37.0 — neutral range
  • 🟡ADX (trend strength)ADX 20.6 — weak trend/choppy
  • 🔴Relative strength vs. S&P 500-22.2% over the last 3 months relative to the index
  • 🔴Bollinger BandsPrice is in the lower third of the Bollinger Bands (30%B) — weakness (chance of a recovery)
  • 🔴ROC (rate of change)ROC 12 days: -7.6%
  • 🔴Parabolic SARPrice is below the SAR point — downtrend
  • 🔴CMF (money flow)CMF 20 days: -0.19

Wyckoff Method Analysis

A market-structure read based purely on real price and volume data — not full classic Wyckoff schematic identification (Phase A-E), but a quantitative analysis of what can reliably be computed: trading ranges, "effort vs. result", volume within the range, and Spring/Upthrust detection.

Markdown

The stock is in a clear downtrend with no defined trading range in the period examined.

Medium confidence

Evidence Behind This Read

  • 🔴Falling price trendA -10.9% change over the last 50 days, with no defined trading range.

The Wyckoff Method, developed by Richard Wyckoff in the early 20th century, reads the balance of supply and demand through price and volume, based on the premise that large investors ("smart money") quietly accumulate shares before rallies and quietly distribute them before declines. The read here is based solely on real price and volume data — full, precise identification of classic Wyckoff patterns (such as Phases A-E) requires human chart-reading experience and judgment, so this is an approximate algorithmic read, not a substitute for professional analysis. This should not be considered investment advice.

🎯 Trade Planning (M.A.E.E Framework)

Based on a mechanical trading method: market structure → value zone → ATR-based exit point. Not investment advice — a calculation tool only.

1️⃣ Market Structure

🔴 Downtrend

The price is below the 200-day average — an environment that mainly favors looking for selling (Short) opportunities, not buying.

2️⃣ Value Zone

🟡 Price far from value zone

The price is currently far from the 50-day average — the method recommends waiting for a "pullback" before entering, rather than chasing prices.

3️⃣ Suggested Exit Point (ATR-based)

Method formula: Stop-loss = resistance plusone ATR margin — this way the stop adapts to the stock's actual volatility, rather than an arbitrary number.

Entry

$338.31

Stop-Loss

$469.65

Risk per Share

$131.34

Direction

Short

Profit Targets by Risk/Reward Ratio (R)

1:2 R

$75.63

1:3 R

-$55.70

1:5 R

-$318.38

💰 Position Size Calculator

A core principle of the method: never risk a fixed dollar amount — risk a fixed percentage of equity, and let the position size vary according to the risk per share.

Suggested Position Size

0 sh.

💰 Financial Health

Profitability

Gross Margin

Operating Margin

-3.5%

Net Margin

-8.5%

EBITDA Margin

7.3%

Efficiency

ROE

-20.0%

ROA

-2.0%

ROIC

EPS

-$4.79

Balance Sheet

Cash

$689.00M

Total Debt

$6.81B

Current Ratio

1.28

Debt/Equity

6.23

Conclusions

  • 🔴Operating marginOperating margin: -3.5% (negative)
  • 🔴Net marginNet margin: -8.5% (negative)
  • 🔴Return on equity (ROE)Return on equity (ROE): -20.0% (negative)
  • 🔴Return on assets (ROA)Return on assets (ROA): -2.0% — weak
  • 🟡Current ratio (liquidity)Current ratio: 1.28
  • 🔴Debt-to-equityDebt/equity: 6.23

🚀 Growth

Revenue

Earnings per Share (EPS)

Net Income

Free Cash Flow (FCF)

Conclusions

  • 🟢Revenue growth (last year)Revenue growth (last year): 22.0%
  • 🔴Earnings per share (EPS) growthEarnings per share (EPS) growth: -127.1%
  • 🟢Free cash flow growthFree cash flow growth: 254.4%
  • 🔴Net income growthNet income growth: -121.9%

💎 Fair Value (Valuation)

Current Price

$338.31

Estimated Fair Value (DCF)

$42.31

Gap

-87.5%

🔴 Appears expensive relative to estimated value

Show all model (DCF) assumptions →

Year 1 Growth Rate

-4.7%

Discount Rate (WACC)

9.0%

Terminal Growth Rate

2.5%

Projection Years

5

YearGrowth RateProjected FCFPresent Value
1-4.7%$577.22M$529.56M
2-2.9%$560.27M$471.57M
3-1.1%$553.97M$427.77M
40.7%$557.78M$395.14M
52.5%$571.72M$371.58M

Base FCF (last actual year)

$606.00M

Terminal Value

$9.02B

Present Value of Terminal Value

$5.86B

Enterprise Value

$8.06B

Net Debt

$6.12B

Equity Value

$1.93B

*The DCF model is an estimate based on assumptions — not a guaranteed forecast. You can change the assumptions to examine different scenarios.

Book Value per Share

$23.92

Tangible Book Value per Share (Tangible NAV)

$23.92

Conclusions

  • 🔴DCF Fair ValueEstimated fair value: $42.31 vs. price $338.31 (-87.5%)
  • 🟡Tangible Net Asset Value (NAV)NAV per share: $23.92
  • 🟡P/EP/E: -70.6

🕴️ Insider Trading

Real transactions by officers and insiders, as reported to the SEC on Form 4 — 0 purchases and 1 sales out of the last 25 filings.

NameTransaction TypeDateSharesChangePrice
Nutt Terry LExercise of Derivative Securities15.7.202676,136+8,312
Nutt Terry LTax Withholding in Shares15.7.202672,865-3,271$385.80
Nutt Terry LExercise of Derivative Securities15.7.20260-20,780
ABBAS GIZMAN IOpen Market Sale15.6.20262,606-2,600$380.00
McFarland Mark AllenOther Transaction8.6.2026117-260,335
McFarland Mark AllenOther Transaction8.6.2026260,335+260,335
Olagues Darren JExercise of Derivative Securities22.5.20267,512+7,395
Olagues Darren JTax Withholding in Shares22.5.20264,601-2,911$324.21
Olagues Darren JExercise of Derivative Securities22.5.20260-18,487
ABBAS GIZMAN IExercise of Derivative Securities22.5.20266,736+4,133
ABBAS GIZMAN IDisposition to the Company22.5.20265,206-1,530$324.21
ABBAS GIZMAN IExercise of Derivative Securities22.5.20260-4,133
Schwartzstein Christine BensonExercise of Derivative Securities22.5.20266,736+4,133
Schwartzstein Christine BensonExercise of Derivative Securities22.5.20260-4,133
Nigro JosephExercise of Derivative Securities22.5.20266,736+4,133
Nigro JosephDisposition to the Company22.5.20265,206-1,530$324.21
Nigro JosephExercise of Derivative Securities22.5.20260-4,133
Hyde Karen TExercise of Derivative Securities22.5.20266,736+4,133
Hyde Karen TDisposition to the Company22.5.20265,206-1,530$324.21
Hyde Karen TExercise of Derivative Securities22.5.20260-4,133
Horton Anthony RExercise of Derivative Securities22.5.20269,265+4,133
Horton Anthony RExercise of Derivative Securities22.5.20260-4,133
SCHAEFER STEPHENExercise of Derivative Securities22.5.20268,265+4,133
SCHAEFER STEPHENExercise of Derivative Securities22.5.202626,614+18,349
SCHAEFER STEPHENDisposition to the Company22.5.202619,825-6,789$324.21

📉 Short Interest

Official FINRA data — the number of shares open in short positions, plus daily short-sale activity.

Monthly Trend — Open Short Interest

-0.9%

2,516,502 shares short as of 2026-07-15 · vs. 2,538,663 on 2026-06-30

Official biweekly report (FINRA Rule 4560) — no real higher-frequency data exists for this metric.

Weekly Trend — Daily Short-Sale Activity

+16.1%

63.2% of trading volume this week was short selling, vs. 54.4% the prior week

Based on daily short-sale volume (Reg SHO) — a different metric from the open short interest above: this is daily trading volume, not an open position, so it updates weekly rather than biweekly.

📰 News & Sentiment

Sentiment based on basic keywords (not AI) — 14 positive, 5 neutral, 1 negative out of the last 20 articles.