During the recent session, American Eagle Outfitters Inc (NYSE:AEO)’s traded shares were 1.54 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.49. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $10.26, reflecting an intraday gain of 2.24% or $0.23. The 52-week high for the AEO share is $22.83, that puts it down -122.51 from that peak though still a striking 9.65% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $9.27. The company’s market capitalization is $1.78B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 6.57 million shares, and the average trade volume was 7.63 million shares over the past three months.
American Eagle Outfitters Inc (AEO) received a consensus recommendation of Hold from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.85. AEO has a Sell rating from 1 analyst(s) out of 8 analysts who have looked at this stock. 4 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 3 recommend a Buy rating for it.
American Eagle Outfitters Inc (NYSE:AEO) trade information
American Eagle Outfitters Inc (AEO) registered a 2.24% upside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 2.24% in intraday trading to $10.26, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -0.53%, and it has moved by -1.01% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -38.48%. The short interest in American Eagle Outfitters Inc (NYSE:AEO) is 17.42 million shares and it means that shorts have 1.81 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $11.5, which implies an increase of 10.78% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $10 and $13 respectively. As a result, AEO is trading at a discount of -26.71% off the target high and 2.53% off the low.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 8.42%. While earnings are projected to return -54.27% in 2025, the next five years will return -7.60% per annum.
AEO Dividends
American Eagle Outfitters Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-May-29. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for American Eagle Outfitters Inc is 0.50, with the dividend yield indicating at 4.88 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years. The average dividend yield of the company for the last 5 years is 2.79%.
American Eagle Outfitters Inc (NYSE:AEO)’s Major holders
American Eagle Outfitters Inc insiders own 6.83% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 106.71%, with the float percentage being 114.53%. BLACKROCK INC. is the largest shareholder of the company, while 461.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 28.93 million shares (or 14.9386% of all shares), a total value of $577.45 million in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 20.9 million shares, is of VANGUARD GROUP INC’s that is approximately 10.7934% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $417.21 million.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of American Eagle Outfitters Inc (AEO) shares are iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . Data provided on May 31, 2025 indicates that iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF owns about 10.52 shares. This amounts to just over 6.07 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $108.03 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 5.58, or about 3.22% of the stock, which is worth about $57.32 million.
