AES Corp (AES) saw downtrend of -1.87% in the recent trading with $16149999.999999998 being its most recent. The current price level -48.18% lower than the highest price of $20.30 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 11.21% higher than the lowest price of $9.46 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on AES appeared in (Motley Fool) under the title “Why AES Corporation Stock Flopped Today” on Today.
Do analysts rate it as a buy, sell or hold?
Irrespective of recent performance, what’s important is what the future holds. In uncertain economic times, a clear picture is difficult to get. Analysts generally have a good understanding of the market works, which gives them a leg up in making predictions. Currently, the stock has been recommended as Moderate Buy by 8 of the brokerage firms. Analyst ratings are often compiled into a single score from 1 to 5. The score of 1 signifies buy or strong buy, the score of 2 signifies outperform, the score of 3 means hold, and the score of 4 indicates underperform. The simple numeric range of brokerage firm referenced at the scale of 1 to 5 reads a current average recommendation of 2.12 for the stock.
AES Corp Earnings – What Happened With AES
Coming around sales and income figures on AES Stock Income Statement, public trading companies under normal circumstances post earnings and revenues near to average estimates by the Wall Street analysts, but those could came either above or below estimates and known as surprise factor.
AES Corp – Insider Activity and Holdings
Investors get the exact data about the key information of institutional ownership in a listed company through its 13F filings at the Stock Exchange Commission (SEC). The total number of common shares currently owned by the public is 711.91 million. AES does have institutional investors; and they hold 90.50% of the stock.
As on 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC was the top most holder in AES Corp (NYSE:AES) with an ownership of 92.86 million shares of the company or 13.1263 of the stake worth $1.63 billion. The filing also reveals CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INVESTORS as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 9.8197 of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $1.22 billion for having 69.47 million shares in hand.
BLACKROCK INC. also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 7.6753 of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 940.0 institutions which have possession in AES’s shares.
Key Metrics forAES
The liquidity is a key characteristic of any stock and is the main point of focus of both short-term as well as long term investors before start trading into a stock. In recently reported quarter, AES Corp has a debt to equity ratio of 7.00.
Technical Analysis of AES Corp (NYSE:AES) stock
To comprehend better with the trade moves and investors’ behavior, exploring the short, medium and long term technical indicators along with average volume of a stock is an effective way to make use of. When looking into those indicators for AES Corp (AES), we notice that the stock’s 20-day average volume is at 15,502,064 shares and 50% of short term indicators are suggesting the stock as Sell. Medium term indicators at an average of 100% are spotting the stock at Sell with its 50-day average volume of 16,777,609 shares. And to end, AES’s 100-day average volume is 16,268,458 shares with 100% of the long-term indicators pointing towards Sell for the stock.
