Buying AES Corp (NYSE: AES)? Here Are Some Things To Consider

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AES Corp (NYSE:AES) shares, rose in value, with the stock price up by 1.32% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $12.59.

Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $12.43, falling within a range of $12.4728 and $12.675. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 0.931 whereas the PE ratio is 5.31 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $22.21, and the low was $9.88. On the whole, AES has fluctuated by 21.33% over the past month.

With the market capitalization of AES Corp currently standing at about $8.97 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Feb-27. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 0.69, with its dividend yield at 5.51%.

Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 12.76B, with a low estimate of 2.97B and a high estimate of 3.37B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 3.13B.

Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that AES’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a Hold on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Sell.

The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 1.95, with the price of AES currently trading nearly 3.44% and 10.48% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 58.61, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 2.91% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 4.39%. Furthermore, AES Corp (AES)’s beta value is 0.82, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.44.

A comparison of AES Corp (AES) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. AES showed an intraday change of 1.32% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it shrunk by -24.32%%.

Data on historical trading for AES Corp (NYSE:AES) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 12.9 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 15.39 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 711.07 million shares outstanding.

Nearly 0.51% of AES Corp’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 93.64% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 30.56 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 1.65. According to the data, the short interest in AES Corp (AES) stood at 493.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 40.26 million. The stock has fallen by -2.15% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the AES stock heading into the next quarter.

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