American Eagle Outfitters Inc (NYSE:AEO) shares, rose in value on Wednesday, January 22, with the stock price down by -0.35% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $17.18.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $17.24, falling within a range of $16.97 and $17.52. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.5 whereas the PE ratio was 14.71 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $26.44, and the low was $15.36. On the whole, AEO has fluctuated by 4.76% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of American Eagle Outfitters Inc currently standing at about $3.30 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for in February. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 0.50, with its dividend yield at 2.91%.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that AEO’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 1.57, with the price of AEO currently trading nearly 3.93% and -1.49% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 53.49, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 3.37% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 3.38%. Furthermore, American Eagle Outfitters Inc (AEO)’s beta value is 1.51, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.69.
A comparison of American Eagle Outfitters Inc (AEO) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. AEO showed an intraday change of -0.35% in last session, and over the past year, it shrunk by -15.03%%.
Data on historical trading for American Eagle Outfitters Inc (NYSE:AEO) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 5.28 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 5.18 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 192.10 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 8.09% of American Eagle Outfitters Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 97.90% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 14.98 million shares as on 2024-11-15, resulting in a short ratio of 4.02. According to the data, the short interest in American Eagle Outfitters Inc (AEO) stood at 1476.00 of shares outstanding as of 2024-11-15; the number of short shares registered in 2024-10-15 reached 16.32 million. The stock has risen by 3.06% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the AEO stock heading into the next quarter.
