Growth Story Still Intact For American Eagle Outfitters Inc (AEO)

American Eagle Outfitters Inc (AEO) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $13.44, with 5.37 million shares of worth about $72.21 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -39.38% during that period and on Wednesday the price saw a gain of about 0.60%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 192.10M shares, out of which, 176.57M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of -6.93% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -19.90%. Year-to-date (YTD), AEO shares are showing a performance of -19.38% which decreased to -42.37% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $13.31 but also hit the highest price of $26.44 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for American Eagle Outfitters Inc shares is 4.96 million. The stock is currently trading -9.85% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -15.83% for SMA50 and it goes to -30.81% lower than SMA200.

American Eagle Outfitters Inc (NYSE: AEO) currently have 192.10M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 93.53% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $2.58B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.54. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 11.51, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.17 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.23 and has Quick Ratio of 0.63 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.80. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for AEO, volatility over the week remained 3.94% while standing at 3.21% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 12.25% while it is estimated to increase by 6.07% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 9.38% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -10.10% made by the stock over the past 5-years.

Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Morgan Stanley on February 05, 2025 offering an Equal-weight rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $19 and $17 to it. Coverage by Morgan Stanley stated American Eagle Outfitters Inc (AEO) stock as an Equal-weight in their note to investors on January 21, 2025, suggesting a price target of $16 for the stock. Stock get a Market perform rating from Telsey Advisory Group on December 05, 2024.

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