With 4.02 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 5.31 million shares. During the session, the Asset Management company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $136.09 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $128.61. The 52-week range on APO shows that it touched its highest point at $189.49 and its lowest point at $95.11 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $183.28. With its current market cap of 74.30 billion, APO has annualized dividend of $1.85 while the current yield stands at 1.42%. APO paid its most recent dividend on 1739836800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1739836800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.65.
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 APO was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -3.37%, but this was down by -17.61% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -24.49% while six-month performance rose 22.02%. The stock gained 19.75% in the past year, while it has lost -21.14% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for APO yields 7.23 with Next year EPS estimates of 9.84. For the next quarter, that number is 1.94. This implies an EPS growth rate of 12.45% for this year and 17.81% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 16.12% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 14.07%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 565.74 million APO shares are outstanding with a float of 400.45 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-02-28, short shares totaled 36.18 million, which was 634.0 higher than short shares on 1738281600. In addition to Mr. Marc Jeffrey Rowan as the firm’s Co-Founder, CEO & Director, Mr. Scott Martin Kleinman serves as its Co-President & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.66746 of APO’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 2024-12-31, APO reported revenue of $5283000000.0 and operating income of $1922000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $2336000000.0 and diluted EPS was $nan.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for APO since 22 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 10 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 11 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 APO analysts setting a high price target of 214.0 and a low target of 163.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 183.4706. Based on these targets, APO could surge 64.31% to reach the target high and rise by 25.15% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 40.87% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $7.19577 being high and $6.93556 being low. For APO, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $7.09569. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $2.13 and the low estimate is $1.96. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $2.04.
