IRVING, Texas, Feb. 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Vistra Energy (NYSE: VST) today announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.125 per share of Vistra's common stock, or $0.50 per share on an annualized basis. The dividend is payable on March 29, 2019, to shareholders of record as of March 15, 2019. The ex-dividend date will be March 14, 2019.

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About Vistra Energy
Vistra Energy (NYSE: VST) is a premier, integrated power company based in Irving, Texas, combining an innovative, customer-centric approach to retail with a focus on safe, reliable, and efficient power generation. Through its retail and generation businesses which include TXU Energy, Homefield Energy, Dynegy, and Luminant, Vistra operates in 12 states and six of the seven competitive markets in the U.S., with about 5,400 employees. Vistra's retail brands serve approximately 2.9 million residential, commercial, and industrial customers across five top retail states, and its generation fleet totals approximately 41,000 megawatts of highly efficient generation capacity, with a diverse portfolio of natural gas, nuclear, coal, solar, and battery storage facilities. The company is currently developing the largest battery energy storage system of its kind in the world – a 300-MW/1,200-MWh system in Moss Landing, California.

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