TLN Talen Energy Corporation
Talen Energy Corporation (TLN) trend channel, buy level and 3-month target on Trade The Path. Sector: Utilities. Listed on NASDAQ. Levels below are fitted to this ticker's own swing highs and lows (TheilβSen, log-price), then projected 3 months. If this ticker has no settled sample yet, treat the numbers as a geometric read, not a track record. Information only, not financial advice.
Mid-channel
Price is between the two trend lines. Nothing to act on yet.
Read from the last 18 months of history we hold: rising, drifting +8% a year. The target of US$336.85 is below the nearest ceiling (US$478.15), so it does not depend on a breakout. What would overturn this: a close below US$277.24 β the floor of the channel being read β after which the trend, not the entry, is what was wrong.
- 18 months read from
- US$277.24 β US$478.15 Rising channel, +8% a year
- Position in that channel
- 27% 0% at the floor, 100% at the ceiling
What broke this trend
- The fall
- -37% from US$445.938 Oct 2025 β 15 Sept 2026
- Whose problem it was
- This companyno peer group to compare against
- Does it resolve?
- Temporary falls like it have resolved on the record
- Regained so far
- 30%of what it lost
- What the record says
- 80% of 1051 comparable falls came back, typically in 80 days measured across every stock we hold history for, its peer group being too small
The trend broke in October 2025: price fell 37% from 445.93 to 282.28 by September 2026, and has regained 30% of that fall since. Its peers did not fall with it, so this was about the company rather than its sector. The wire that week: βTalen Energy Launches $1.2B Term Loan B, Upsizes Revolver To $900M And L/C Facility To $1.1B, Extends Maturity To 2027β. Falls like it have resolved: falls of about 37% here have come back to the old high 80% of the time (1051 comparable falls), typically in 80 days. On that record the fall is treated as temporary, and the trend lines are fitted to the regime it created rather than through it.
Reported at the time: Talen Energy Launches $1.2B Term Loan B, Upsizes Revolver To $900M And L/C Facility To $1.1B, Extends Maturity To 2027 β 6 Oct 2025
Price history, with the path projected 3 months forward
- Daily close
- Upper trend line (18 months)
- Lower trend line (18 months)
- Dashed after today: projected 3 months
- Our buy
- Our target
Suggested path
Buy at or below
US$306.22
level as at 22 Oct 2026
Our target
US$336.85
by 7 Oct 2026
Projected move
10.0%
gross, before costs
Price sits between our buy level and our target.
The lines are drawn where this stock has actually turned: 5 touches on the ceiling, 3 on the floor, each fitted to the slope that catches the most of them. Buying one average daily range below its 50-day mean, on heavier volume than usual and while it is still above its 200-day mean, has come up 791 times; measured against the 6% floor β the least a call has to be worth to be worth making, not what it aims at β 73% cleared it, typically in 34 days, with price going about 5% against the entry along the way (63% in the worst case we have on record). Trades that have not reached the target within 3 months are counted as misses, whatever they are worth at the time. The prices above are this stockβs own β its average, its volatility β but the setup is the same one we apply everywhere: derived on eight unrelated tickers, then confirmed on 87 others it was never fitted to. We deliberately do not tune it to each stock: doing so scores worse on history the tuning never saw β 58% against 71% β because it fits the past rather than the future. On this stock the setup has come up 2 times so far, reaching target 100% of the time β too few to mean much on its own. The sell price is the exit with the highest expected return per day held among the levels this path actually supports β the historical size that path supports, not a farther peak the line never reaches. The fitted path's nearer top is more than 30% above the entry; 10% is the size that paid the most per day of money tied up here, measured over 48 stretches of this stockβs own record, reached 47% of the time, typically in 18 days. A recovery back to an old high is only published when its expected $/day, dated by when the path itself would get there, truly beats this nearer top. Holding through a dip past this exit would lower that rate. It is a prediction, so it can be revised: if the run tops out before it gets there, the target is cut to what is actually on the table and you are told the same day. An ordinary pullback is not treated as topping out β those go on to make a new high about 8 times in 10, so they are ridden through. What triggers the revision is price closing below its 50-day trend and staying there, after which the odds of recovery fall to roughly 3 in 10.
- Upper line touches
- 5
- Lower line touches
- 3
- Fit confidence
- 45%
- Fitted
- 6 Oct 2026
About Talen Energy Corporation
Talen Energy Corporation functions as an independent power producer and infrastructure enterprise, providing electricity, capacity, and essential ancillary services to wholesale energy markets across the United States. The company's diverse generation assets include nuclear, fossil fuel, solar, and coal-powered facilities. Additionally, it is currently engaged in the development of battery energy storage projects. Overall, Talen Energy owns and manages an extensive portfolio of power infrastructure, amounting to approximately 10.7 gigawatts. The firm's headquarters are situated in Houston, Texas.
- Sector
- Utilities
- Industry
- Independent Power Producers
- CEO
- Mark Allen McFarland
- Employees
- 1,880
- Country
- US
Scorecard
Our own pillar scores, computed from the fundamentals below. They are not Morningstar ratings β that data is licensed and we do not redistribute it.
- Valuation
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- Profitability
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- Financial health
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- Cash generation
- β
Key statistics
- Market cap
- US$15.07B
- Enterprise value
- β
- Beta
- 1.63
- Avg volume
- 843.99K
- Revenue per share
- β
- Dividend yield
- β
- 52-week range
- 279.77-449.841
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
Key ratios
- P/E (TTM)
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- PEG
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- Price / sales
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- Price / book
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- EV / EBITDA
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- Gross margin
- β
- Operating margin
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- Net margin
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- Current ratio
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- Quick ratio
- β
- Debt / equity
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- Interest cover
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Income statement
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Cash flow
Trend lines are fitted statistically to past swing highs and lows and projected forward on the assumption the same rhythm continues. It often does not. This is information, not advice.