In recent trading session, AES Corp (NYSE:AES) saw 2.84 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 0.95. Company’s recent per share price level of $9.95 trading at -$0.17 or -1.71% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $7.08B. That most recent trading price of AES’s stock is at a discount of -123.22% from its 52-week high price of $22.21 and is indicating a premium of 3.82% from its 52-week low price of $9.57. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 12.97 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 15.62 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For AES Corp (AES), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 2.00. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 8 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 1 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 7 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of 0.34 in the current quarter.
AES Corp (NYSE:AES) trade information
Upright in the red during last session for losing -1.71%, in the last five days AES remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Wednesday, 04/23/25 when the stock touched $9.95 price level, adding 4.78% to its value on the day. AES Corp’s shares saw a change of -22.72% in year-to-date performance and have moved -2.29% in past 5-day. AES Corp (NYSE:AES) showed a performance of -20.36% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 28.15 million shares which calculate 1.64 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 15 to the stock, which implies a rise of 33.67% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 7 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 15. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 29.65% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 29.65% for stock’s current value.
AES Corp (AES) estimates and forecasts
This year revenue growth is estimated to rise 3.21% from the last financial year’s standing.
4 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 3.06B for the same. And 4 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 3.11B in the next quarter. Company posted 3.08B and 2.94B 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 39.18% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 1.40% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 2.94%.
AES Dividends
AES Corp is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Feb-27 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 6.97%, the share has a forward dividend of 0.69 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 3.28%.
AES Corp (NYSE:AES)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 0.46% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 99.05 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 99.51%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 99.05% institutions for AES Corp that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at AES for having 92.86 million shares of worth $1.63 billion. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 13.1263 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INVESTORS, which was holding about 69.47 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 9.8197 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $1.22 billion.
On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Dec 31, 2024 , the former fund manager was holding 22.29 shares of worth $222.92 million or 3.13% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 19.25 shares on Dec 31, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $192.49 million in the company or a holder of 2.70% of company’s stock.
