This Energy Stock Is Crushing the S&P 500 in 2025, and Shows No Signs of Stopping

It's rare for a well-established energy stock to absolutely pulverize the S&P 500's returns, but that's exactly what Texas-based electric company Vistra (NYSE: VST) is doing. The stock is up 47.5% so far in 2025, beating the S&P's 12.8% return by nearly 35 percentage points.And Vistra doesn't show any signs of stopping, thanks to two big trends that both happen to be working in its favor. Here's why Vistra is likely to continue to outpace the market.In 1979, Reactor No. 2 at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania suffered a partial meltdown in the worst U.S. nuclear disaster in history. In the wake of the disaster, "No Nukes!" became a national rallying cry that spurred the country into investigating safer forms of clean power generation. Indeed, the country hasn't opened a new nuclear facility since 1996. Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool