American Eagle Outfitters Inc (NYSE:AEO) has a beta value of 1.52 and has seen 1.14 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $1.80B, closed the recent trade at $10.40 per share which meant it lost -$0.34 on the day or -3.12% during that session. The AEO stock price is -141.83% off its 52-week high price of $25.15 and 9.23% above the 52-week low of $9.44. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 9.42 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 6.49 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that American Eagle Outfitters Inc (AEO) is Hold stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 2.77. 1 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 4 out of 8 have rated it as a Hold, with 3 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight. The expected earnings per share for the stock is 0.11.
American Eagle Outfitters Inc (NYSE:AEO) trade information
Sporting -3.12% in the red today, the stock has traded in the red over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the AEO stock price touched $10.40 or saw a rise of 5.71%. Year-to-date, American Eagle Outfitters Inc shares have moved -37.58%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -2.21%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of American Eagle Outfitters Inc (NYSE:AEO) have changed -12.12%. Short interest in the company has seen 15.56 million shares shorted with days to cover at 2.06.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $16.5, which means that the shares’ value could jump 36.97% from the levels at last check today.. The projected low price target is $13.0 while the price target rests at a high of $20.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -92.31% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock gain -25.0% from the levels at last check today..
American Eagle Outfitters Inc (AEO) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have lost -51.49% over the past 6 months. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be -2.15%.
8 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of 1.08B for the current quarter. 8 have an estimated revenue figure of 1.24B for the next ending quarter. Year-ago sales stood 1.14B and 1.29B respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will shrink by -5.28% for the current quarter and -2.15% for the next.
If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was 8.42% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest -20.39% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to decrease by -5.13%.
AEO Dividends
American Eagle Outfitters Inc is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Mar-11 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 0.50 at a share yield of 4.81%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months, with a 5 Year Average Dividend Yield of 2.8%.
American Eagle Outfitters Inc (NYSE:AEO)’s Major holders
Insiders own 6.93% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 108.39% with a share float percentage of 116.46%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with American Eagle Outfitters Inc having a total of 471.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are BLACKROCK INC. with over 28.93 million shares worth more than $577.45 million. As of 2024-06-30, BLACKROCK INC. held 14.9386% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, with the holding of over 20.9 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $417.21 million and represent 10.6413% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 6.27% shares in the company for having 10.81 shares of worth $111.75 million while later fund manager owns 5.54 shares of worth $57.32 million as of Dec 31, 2024 , which makes it owner of about 3.21% of company’s outstanding stock.
