With 5.43 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 3.0 million shares. During the session, the Utilities – Regulated Electric company that operates in wider Utilities sector, reached to the highest price of $103.05 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $98.16. The 52-week range on AEP shows that it touched its highest point at $105.18 and its lowest point at $75.22 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $101.36. With its current market cap of 54.66 billion, AEP has annualized dividend of $3.57 while the current yield stands at 3.48%. AEP paid its most recent dividend on 1731024000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1739145600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.57.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of AEP was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 5.53%, but this was up by 10.52% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 1.79% while six-month performance rose 7.08%. The stock gained 33.30% in the past year, while it has gained 11.28% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for AEP yields 4.98 with Next year EPS estimates of 5.88. For the next quarter, that number is 1.23. This implies an EPS growth rate of 6.83% for this year and 4.83% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 6.26% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 1.73%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 532.47 million AEP shares are outstanding with a float of 530.92 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 10.08 million, which was 189.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. David M. Feinberg J.D. as the firm’s Executive VP, General Counsel & Secretary, Mr. Christian T. Beam serves as its Executive Vice President & Senior Advisor.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.80737996 of AEP’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, AEP reported revenue of $5420100000.0 and operating income of $1351500000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $2279200000.0 and diluted EPS was $1.8.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for AEP since 9 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 5 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With AEP analysts setting a high price target of 116.0 and a low target of 92.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 99.57059. Based on these targets, AEP could surge 13.03% to reach the target high and fall by -10.36% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -2.98% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $5.67955 being high and $5.33777 being low. For AEP, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $5.60918. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.75 and the low estimate is $1.34. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.43.
