Currently, there are 711.91M common shares owned by the public and among those 708.34M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 7.93% and -3.20% over the past three months. AES shares are trading -15.38% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -46.85% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $9.46 and touched a high of $20.90 over the same period. AES has an average intraday trading volume of 15.73 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 0.23%, 1.17%, and -18.60% respectively.
Institutional ownership of AES Corp (NYSE: AES) shares accounts for 90.47% of the company’s 711.91M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $7.75B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.94. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 5.95, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $1.83. The company has a PEG of 2.13 and a Quick Ratio of 0.78 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 7.00. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.14% over the week and 4.10% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 0.46%, and 3.46% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of 2.79% over the next five years, compared to 39.18% over the past 5-year period.
Jefferies coverage for the AES Corp (AES) stock in a research note released on May 20, 2025 offered a Underperform rating with a price target of $9. Jefferies was of a view on April 10, 2025 that the stock is Hold, while BofA Securities gave the stock Neutral rating on March 04, 2025, issuing a price target of $11- $13. Seaport Research Partners on their part issued Sell rating on March 03, 2025.
