Is American Eagle Outfitters Inc (NYSE:AEO), -129.26% Away From High, Poised For A Strong Comeback?

In last trading session, American Eagle Outfitters Inc (NYSE:AEO) saw 7.01 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 1.51. Company’s recent per share price level of $10.97 trading at -$0.06 or -0.54% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $1.89B. That closing price of AEO’s stock is at a discount of -129.26% from its 52-week high price of $25.15 and is indicating a premium of 13.95% from its 52-week low price of $9.44. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 7.9 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 6.51 million if we extend that period to 3-months.

For American Eagle Outfitters Inc (AEO), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Hold while assigning it a mean rating of 2.77. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 8 analysts covering the stock, 1 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 4 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 3 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of 0.11 in the current quarter.

American Eagle Outfitters Inc (NYSE:AEO) trade information

Upright in the red during last session for losing -0.54%, in the last five days AEO remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Wednesday, 04/23/25 when the stock touched $10.97 price level, adding 6.4% to its value on the day. American Eagle Outfitters Inc’s shares saw a change of -34.19% in year-to-date performance and have moved 5.99% in past 5-day. American Eagle Outfitters Inc (NYSE:AEO) showed a performance of -13.76% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 15.56 million shares which calculate 2.06 days to cover the short interests.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 16.5 to the stock, which implies a rise of 33.52% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 13 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 20. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -18.51% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -18.51% for stock’s current value.

American Eagle Outfitters Inc (AEO) estimates and forecasts

This year revenue growth is estimated to fall -2.15% from the last financial year’s standing.

8 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 1.08B for the same. And 8 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 1.24B in the next quarter. Company posted 1.14B and 1.29B of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.

Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 8.42% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around -20.39% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of -5.13%.

AEO Dividends

American Eagle Outfitters Inc is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Mar-11 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 4.56%, the share has a forward dividend of 0.50 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 2.8%.

American Eagle Outfitters Inc (NYSE:AEO)’s Major holders

Insiders are in possession of 6.93% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 108.37 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 116.44%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 108.37% institutions for American Eagle Outfitters Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. BLACKROCK INC. is the top institutional holder at AEO for having 28.93 million shares of worth $577.45 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 14.9386 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, which was holding about 20.9 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 10.7934 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $417.21 million.

On the other hand, iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 10.81 shares of worth $118.58 million or 6.27% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 5.54 shares on Dec 31, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $60.82 million in the company or a holder of 3.21% of company’s stock.