Why These Energy Stocks are Gaining This Week

In this article, we are going to discuss the energy stocks that are gaining this week.

The American energy sector received a massive boost this week after the United States struck a major trade deal with the European Union, fundamentally rebalancing the economic relationship between the world’s two largest economies. As part of the agreement, the European bloc has committed to significantly ramp up energy imports from the United States to $250 billion annually through 2028, strengthening America’s energy dominance and reducing European reliance on adversarial sources. Moreover, South Korea has also expressed interest in investing and purchasing fuel from an Alaskan LNG project as it seeks a trade deal of its own.

However, it remains to be seen whether such a massive volume of energy trade is even realistic, since the total American energy exports to all buyers worldwide in 2024 amounted to $318 billion, with the EU importing a combined $76 billion of petroleum, LNG, and solid fuels from the US, according to Reuters’ calculations based on Eurostat data. More than tripling these figures in such a constrained time span is going to be nothing short of a miracle.

Our Methodology

To collect data for this article, we have referred to several stock screeners to find energy stocks that have surged the most between July 23 and July 30, 2025. Following are the Energy Stocks that Gained the Most This Week. The stocks are ranked according to their share price surge during this period.

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10. Vistra Corp. (NYSE:VST)

Share Price Gains Between July 23 – July 30: 3.46%

Vistra Corp. (NYSE:VST) is a leading Fortune 500 integrated retail electricity and power generation company based in Texas. Vistra is the largest competitive power generator in the US with a capacity of approximately 41 gigawatts.

One of the biggest winners of the ongoing AI boom, Vistra Corp. (NYSE:VST), soared to an all-time high this week after the company announced a regular quarterly dividend of $0.2260 per share. This dividend is up 3% compared to last year and reflects an estimated aggregate payment of approximately $75 million this quarter.

Vistra Corp. (NYSE:VST) also declared a semi-annual dividend of $40 per share on the company’s Series A Preferred Stock, to be paid on October 15, 2025.

Following the recent surge, the share price of Vistra Corp. (NYSE:VST) has shot up by over 38% since the beginning of 2025.

9. Venture Global, Inc. (NYSE:VG)

Share Price Gains Between July 23 – July 30: 4.07%

Venture Global, Inc. (NYSE:VG) develops and constructs LNG export projects to provide clean, affordable energy to the world. The company is currently the second-largest LNG exporter in the United States.

Venture Global, Inc. (NYSE:VG) shot up this week following reports that the company has decided to go ahead with the construction of its CP2 export facility in Louisiana after it closed $15.1 billion in financing for the first phase of the project. According to VG, the facility has secured over $34bn in commitments, making it the largest standalone project financing to date.

With a peak capacity of 28 million metric tons per annum, CP2 is expected to boost Venture Global, Inc. (NYSE:VG)’s export capacity by more than 70% within two years, turning it into the largest exporter of American LNG.