Currently, there are 711.07M common shares owned by the public and among those 708.30M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 9.42% and -9.75% over the past three months. AES shares are trading -4.35% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -22.77% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $9.88 and touched a high of $22.21 over the same period. AES has an average intraday trading volume of 15.24 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 11.09%, 8.64%, and -20.50% respectively.
Institutional ownership of AES Corp (NYSE: AES) shares accounts for 93.64% of the company’s 711.07M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $8.76B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.79. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 5.19, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $2.37. The company has a PEG of 2.11 and a Quick Ratio of 0.73 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 6.42. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 4.41% over the week and 4.47% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -1.27%, and 4.86% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of 2.46% over the next five years, compared to 39.18% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the AES, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. BofA Securities stated their Neutral rating for the stock in a research note on March 04, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $11-$13. HSBC Securities was of a view on December 13, 2024 that the stock is Buy, while BofA Securities gave the stock Underperform rating on November 25, 2024, issuing a price target of $11. Jefferies on their part issued Buy rating on September 11, 2024.
