In today’s recent session, 1.4 million shares of the American Eagle Outfitters Inc (NYSE:AEO) have been traded, and its beta is 1.36. Most recently the company’s share price was $12.14, and it changed around -$0.1 or -0.86% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $2.09B. AEO at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $26.25, offering almost -116.23% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $10.74, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 11.53% since then. We note from American Eagle Outfitters Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 9.38 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 5.30 million.
American Eagle Outfitters Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, based on a mean score of 2.77. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 12 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 0 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 10 recommended AEO as a Hold, whereas 1 deemed it a Buy, and 1 rated it as Underweight. American Eagle Outfitters Inc is expected to report earnings per share of 0.11 for the current quarter.
American Eagle Outfitters Inc (NYSE:AEO) trade information
Instantly AEO has been showing red trend so far today with a performance of -0.86% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 13.06 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 7.04%. The company’s shares are currently down -27.20% year-to-date, but still up 1.89% over the last five days. On the other hand, American Eagle Outfitters Inc (NYSE:AEO) is -9.17% down in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 14.23 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 2.33 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $16.5, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 26.42% from its current value. Analyst projections state that AEO is forecast to be at a low of $13 and a high of $20.
American Eagle Outfitters Inc (AEO) estimates and forecasts
The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be -1.60%, down from the previous year.
Consensus estimates provided by 8 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 1.09B in revenue for the current quarter. 8 analysts expect American Eagle Outfitters Inc to make 1.25B in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 1.14B and 1.29B respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will drop, forecast at -5.06%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at -3.54%.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 8.42%. American Eagle Outfitters Inc earnings are expected to increase by -15.12% in 2025, but the outlook is negative -5.93% per year for the next five years.
AEO Dividends
American Eagle Outfitters Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-Mar-11. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 4.12 percent and its annual dividend per share was 0.50. It is important to note, however, that the 4.12% dividend yield ratio should be regarded as a guide only, as many other factors should be taken into consideration before making any investment decision. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 2.84 per year.
American Eagle Outfitters Inc (NYSE:AEO)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 6.89% of American Eagle Outfitters Inc shares, and 110.31% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 118.47%. American Eagle Outfitters Inc stock is held by 475.0 institutions, with BLACKROCK INC. being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 14.9386% of the shares, which is about 28.93 million shares worth $577.45 million.
VANGUARD GROUP INC, with 10.6413% or 20.9 million shares worth $417.21 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Feb 28, 2025. The former held 11.14 shares worth $134.18 million, making up 6.46% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held roughly 5.54 shares worth around $66.78 million, which represents about 3.21% of the total shares outstanding.
