Views of Wall Street’s Leading Experts on Advanced Energy Industries Inc

With 0.28 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.37 million shares. During the session, the Electrical Equipment & Parts company that operates in wider Industrials sector, reached to the highest price of $88.37 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $84.62. The 52-week range on AEIS shows that it touched its highest point at $132.16 and its lowest point at $75.01 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $125.70. With its current market cap of 3.27 billion, AEIS has annualized dividend of $0.40 while the current yield stands at 0.46%. AEIS paid its most recent dividend on 1740355200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1740355200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.51.

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 AEIS was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.09%, but this was down by -18.33% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -27.47% while six-month performance fell -18.61%. The stock lost -8.59% in the past year, while it has lost -24.94% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for AEIS yields 1.43 with Next year EPS estimates of 6.09. For the next quarter, that number is 1.06. This implies an EPS growth rate of 29.55% for this year and 26.72% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 23.21% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -3.21%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 37.71 million AEIS shares are outstanding with a float of 37.38 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 2.59 million, which was 683.0 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. Stephen D. Kelley J.D. as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Paul R. Oldham serves as its Executive VP & CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 1.09947 of AEIS’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, AEIS reported revenue of $415403000.0 and operating income of $34912000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $62758000.0 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 AEIS since 4 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 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 AEIS analysts setting a high price target of 145.0 and a low target of 98.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 125.7. Based on these targets, AEIS could surge 67.07% to reach the target high and rise by 12.92% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 44.83% 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 $3.5183 being high and $3.4982 being low. For AEIS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.50825.