American Eagle Outfitters Inc (NYSE:AEO) price on current trading day, rose 16.79% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $11.27.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $9.65, moving within a range at $9.565 and $11.71. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.373 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 6.73. Turning to its 52-week performance, $25.50 and $9.44 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, AEO moved -1.91% over the past month.
American Eagle Outfitters Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $1.94 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Mar-11. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.50, with its dividend yield at 4.44%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 1.08B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 1.07B and 1.1B respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -5.23% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 5.21B, representing a -2.14% decline on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that AEO is a 100% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Sell category.
8 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 4 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 3 recommend AEO as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 1 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Hold which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
AEO’s current price about -2.61% and -13.62% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 45.92, while 7-day volatility ratio is 15.51% and 7.51% in the 30-day chart. Further, American Eagle Outfitters Inc (AEO) has a beta value of 1.52, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.95. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $16.5, forecast between a low of $13 and high of $20. Looking at the price targets, the low is -15.35% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -77.46%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -46.41% jump to $16.5 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on American Eagle Outfitters Inc (NYSE:AEO), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 10.41 over the past 10 days and 6.19 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 188.62 million shares.
The 8.24% of American Eagle Outfitters Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 104.23% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 14.23 million on 2025-03-14, giving us a short ratio of 2.33. The data shows that as of 2025-03-14 short interest in American Eagle Outfitters Inc (AEO) stood at 1452.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 16.52 million registered in 2025-02-14. Current price change has pushed the stock -32.39% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the AEO stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
