AES (NYSE:AES) Releases FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

AES (NYSE:AES - Get Free Report) updated its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Friday. The company provided EPS guidance of 2.100-2.260 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 2.030. The company issued revenue guidance of -. AES also updated its FY25 guidance to $2.10-2.26 EPS.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several equities research analysts have recently issued reports on the company. HSBC assumed coverage on AES in a report on Friday, December 13th. They set a "buy" rating and a $17.00 price objective on the stock. Mizuho decreased their price objective on AES from $24.00 to $16.00 and set an "outperform" rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, November 21st. Bank of America assumed coverage on AES in a report on Monday, November 25th. They set an "underperform" rating and a $11.00 price objective on the stock. Barclays decreased their price objective on AES from $17.00 to $12.00 and set an "overweight" rating on the stock in a report on Monday, January 27th. Finally, Hsbc Global Res upgraded AES to a "strong-buy" rating in a report on Friday, December 13th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, two have assigned a hold rating, eight have issued a buy rating and two have issued a strong buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company has an average rating of "Moderate Buy" and a consensus price target of $18.80.

AES Trading Down 3.5 %

Shares of AES traded down $0.41 during trading hours on Monday, hitting $11.18. The stock had a trading volume of 25,008,212 shares, compared to its average volume of 16,107,001. The company's fifty day simple moving average is $11.51 and its 200 day simple moving average is $14.52. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.21, a quick ratio of 0.80 and a current ratio of 0.85. AES has a 12-month low of $9.88 and a 12-month high of $22.21. The firm has a market cap of $7.95 billion, a P/E ratio of 7.76, a P/E/G ratio of 0.82 and a beta of 0.99.

AES (NYSE:AES - Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings data on Friday, February 28th. The utilities provider reported $0.54 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.34 by $0.20. AES had a return on equity of 27.30% and a net margin of 8.34%. The company had revenue of $2.96 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.07 billion. During the same period last year, the company posted $0.73 earnings per share. Equities research analysts forecast that AES will post 1.93 EPS for the current fiscal year.

AES Announces Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, May 15th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, May 1st will be given a $0.176 dividend. This represents a $0.70 annualized dividend and a yield of 6.30%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 1st. AES's dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 48.61%.

AES Company Profile

The AES Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a diversified power generation and utility company in the United States and internationally. The company owns and/or operates power plants to generate and sell power to customers, such as utilities, industrial users, and other intermediaries; owns and/or operates utilities to generate or purchase, distribute, transmit, and sell electricity to end-user customers in the residential, commercial, industrial, and governmental sectors; and generates and sells electricity on the wholesale market.