$VST

James A. Burke

Vistra

President & CEO • Since 2022 • Utilities

📊 CEO Reputation Score

FY2025 vs FY2024 · Source: SEC EDGAR filings

8/100

Blend of this company's year-over-year free-cash-flow and profit improvement, each ranked as a percentile against every scored company in the three indexes.

Free cash flow: $2.5B → $1.3B (−47.0% YoY) — fiscal 2025 vs fiscal 2024
Profit (net income): $2.7B → $944M (−64.5% YoY) — fiscal 2025 vs fiscal 2024

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Overview

James A. Burke is the president & ceo of Vistra since 2022. Vistra is a Utilities company headquartered in Irving, Texas, founded in 2016, and one of the 500 companies in the S&P 500 — every one of which is profiled on this site.

Leadership

James holds the chief executive role at Vistra with the title President & CEO — in post since 2022. This page is the concise leadership record for Vistra in the S&P 500 CEO index; the site's fully researched long-form profiles (career timelines, education, achievements, setbacks, philosophy and sourced quotes) currently cover the index's ten largest companies, and this entry will be expanded in the same format.

At a Glance

Sector: Utilities
Ticker: $VST
Headquarters: Irving, Texas
Founded: 2016
CEO since: 2022
Index: S&P 500 (#473 of 500)