US stock market: Vistra stock pops in premarket on $4.7B Cogentrix deal amid AI power-demand boom
New York, January 6, 2026, 06:10 EST — Premarket Vistra shares were up 4.4% at $170.17 in premarket trading on Tuesday after the U.S. power producer said it would buy Cogentrix Energy from Quantum Capital Group in a deal valued at about $4.7 billion. TradingView+1 The purchase lands as investors sharpen their focus on electricity supply, with data centers racing to support artificial intelligence workloads pushing demand higher across the U.S. grid. The Energy Information Administration has forecast U.S. power consumption will hit record highs in 2026. Reuters For Vistra, the deal is another bet that owning dispatchable generation —