American Electric Power Company Inc (NASDAQ:AEP) currently has a daily average trading volume of 3.35M but it saw 2786554 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 56.44B USD, the company’s current market price of $105.84 came falling about -0.14 while comparing to the previous closing price of $105.99. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $109.52 and as low as $79.16. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $105.14 while lowest mark touched by it was $106.3.
Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of American Electric Power Company Inc (AEP) gives us an average price of $105.37, while its current price level is -3.36% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 33.70% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $101.01 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $97.20. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.52% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 2.05%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 56.31 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.
BofA Securities upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Buy” from “Underperform” on January 13, 2025 while assigning a price target range of $98-$104. Scotiabank issued its recommendations for the stock as it downgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $105 and $102.
Over the week, AEP’s stock price is moving 2.80% up while it is 3.56% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 14.76% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 28.90%.
The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Feb-12, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 1.4 while estimate for next year EPS is 5.88. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $5.11B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $21.25B and seeing the company making $22.23B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $5.33B for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, American Electric Power Company Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 532.91M with 0.03% of that held by the insiders while 80.25% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 4.44% and return on equity (ROE) at 11.37%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 18.94 while having a 16.80 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.44. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 2.09 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 2.83. Its return on asset (ROA) is 2.89% on average.
