Currently, there are 195.06M common shares owned by the public and among those 181.01M shares have been available to trade.
Insiders at the company have transacted a total of 71 times over the past 12 months, according to data filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 39 of these insider trades were purchases, accounting for 514,392 shares. Insider sales of the common stock occurred on 32 occasions, with total insider shares sold totaling 272,932 shares.
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However, the script later moved the day high at 24.47, up 0.50%. The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 9.22% and 43.66% over the past three months. AEO shares are trading 13.04% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 63.50% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $9.95 and touched a high of $23.89 over the same period. AEO has an average intraday trading volume of 4.30 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 10.26%, 13.37%, and 43.47% respectively.
Institutional ownership of American Eagle Outfitters Inc. (NYSE: AEO) shares accounts for 98.22% of the company’s 195.06M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $4.73B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.58. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 21.60, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $1.11. The company has a PEG of 1.22 and a Quick Ratio of 0.70 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.70. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.81% over the week and 2.82% over the month.
Analysts forecast that American Eagle Outfitters Inc. (AEO) will achieve an EPS of $0.5 for the current quarter, $0.24 for the next quarter and $1.56 for 2025. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is $0.44 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of $0.52. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was $0.37 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 45.67%, and 12.40% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 17.70% over the next five years, compared to -10.85% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the AEO, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Telsey Advisory Group stated their Market Perform rating for the stock in a research note on January 09, 2024, with the firm’s price target at $19-$22. BofA Securities coverage for the American Eagle Outfitters Inc. (AEO) stock in a research note released on November 15, 2023 offered a Neutral rating with a price target of $19. Barclays was of a view on August 01, 2023 that the stock is Overweight, while Jefferies gave the stock Hold rating on February 15, 2023, issuing a price target of $18- $16. Morgan Stanley on their part issued Underweight rating on January 12, 2023.
