AES Corp (NYSE:AES) has a beta value of 0.93 and has seen 3.21 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $9.34B, closed the recent trade at $13.12 per share which meant it lost -$0.02 on the day or -0.18% during that session. The AES stock price is -54.73% off its 52-week high price of $20.30 and 27.9% above the 52-week low of $9.46. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 25.95 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 18.21 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that AES Corp (AES) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 2.18. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 1 out of 8 have rated it as a Hold, with 7 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight.
AES Corp (NYSE:AES) trade information
Sporting -0.18% 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 AES stock price touched $13.12 or saw a rise of 2.02%. Year-to-date, AES Corp shares have moved -30.56%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -1.08%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of AES Corp (NYSE:AES) have changed 14.65%. Short interest in the company has seen 38.84 million shares shorted with days to cover at 2.09.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $15, which means that the shares’ value could jump 12.53% from the levels at last check today.. The projected low price target is $7.0 while the price target rests at a high of $15.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -14.33% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock lose 46.65% from the levels at last check today..
AES Corp (AES) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have gained 12.20% over the past 6 months.
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 39.18% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest 0.48% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 2.78%.
AES Dividends
AES Corp is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-May-01 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 0.70 at a share yield of 5.31%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months, with a 5 Year Average Dividend Yield of 3.42%.
AES Corp (NYSE:AES)’s Major holders
Insiders own 0.46% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 91.27% with a share float percentage of 91.69%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with AES Corp having a total of 932.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 92.86 million shares worth more than $1.63 billion. As of 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC held 13.1263% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INVESTORS, with the holding of over 69.47 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $1.22 billion and represent 9.8197% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund . As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 3.16% shares in the company for having 22.48 shares of worth $292.01 million while later fund manager owns 19.77 shares of worth $256.77 million as of Mar 31, 2025 , which makes it owner of about 2.78% of company’s outstanding stock.
