With 0.94 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.34 million shares. During the session, the Rental & Leasing Services company that operates in wider Industrials sector, reached to the highest price of $105.03 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $103.66. The 52-week range on AER shows that it touched its highest point at $107.36 and its lowest point at $81.93 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $121.00. With its current market cap of 19.54 billion, AER has annualized dividend of $1.02 while the current yield stands at 0.98%. AER paid its most recent dividend on 1731456000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1741737600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.46.
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 AER was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 5.58%, but this was down by -0.80% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 7.50% while six-month performance rose 10.27%. The stock gained 21.26% in the past year, while it has gained 9.30% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for AER yields 10.77 with Next year EPS estimates of 12.90. For the next quarter, that number is 2.74. This implies an EPS growth rate of -3.10% for this year and 10.85% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 6.05% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 5.36%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 181.71 million AER shares are outstanding with a float of 180.93 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-02-28, short shares totaled 1.64 million, which was 88.0 higher than short shares on 1738281600. In addition to Mr. Aengus Kelly A.C.A. as the firm’s CEO & Executive Director, Mr. Peter L. Juhas J.D. serves as its Chief Financial Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.91310996 of AER’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, AER reported revenue of $2072282000.0 and operating income of $573362000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $1083453000.0 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 AER since 7 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 6 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 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 AER analysts setting a high price target of 130.0 and a low target of 112.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 121.0. Based on these targets, AER could surge 24.28% to reach the target high and rise by 7.07% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 15.68% 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 $11.25776 being high and $10.95136 being low. For AER, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $11.11939. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $3.15 and the low estimate is $2.24. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $2.83.
