American Equity Investment Life Holding Company (NYSE: AEL) open the trading on March 16, 2023, with great promise as it jumped 2.39% to $33.88. During the day, the stock rose to $34.46 and sunk to $31.57 before settling in for the price of $33.09 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, AEL posted a 52-week range of $28.05-$48.37.
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In the past 5-years timespan, the Financial sector firm’s annual sales growth was -18.40%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 40.70%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 182.40%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $85.22 million, simultaneously with a float of $84.19 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $3.00 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $44.00, while the 200-day Moving Average is $40.15.
If we measure the efficiency of the company that is accounted for 840 employees. For the Profitability, stocks operating margin was +42.03 and Pretax Margin of +41.04.
American Equity Investment Life Holding Company (AEL) Ownership Facts and Figures
Sometimes it helps to make our mind if we keep our tabs on how bigger investors are working with the stock of the Insurance – Life industry. American Equity Investment Life Holding Company’s current insider ownership accounts for 1.60%, in contrast to 99.80% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Aug 09, this organization’s EVP-Chief Risk Officer sold 25,000 shares at the rate of 40.00, making the entire transaction reach 1,000,078 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 36,439. Preceding that transaction, on May 16, Company’s Director sold 4,237 for 34.84, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 147,607. This particular insider is now the holder of 51,003 in total.
American Equity Investment Life Holding Company (AEL) Earnings and Revenue Records
So, what does the last quarter earnings report of the company that was made public on 9/29/2022 suggests? It has posted $1.29 earnings per share (EPS) beating the forecaster’s viewpoint (set at $0.82) by $0.47. This company achieved a net margin of +32.40 while generating a return on equity of 25.72. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.15 per share during the current fiscal year.
American Equity Investment Life Holding Company’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 182.40% and is forecasted to reach 5.72 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 26.81% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 40.70% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.
American Equity Investment Life Holding Company (NYSE: AEL) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for American Equity Investment Life Holding Company (AEL). The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 1.77. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $2.72, and its Beta score is 0.91. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 2.12. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 1.50.
In the same vein, AEL’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 12.47, a figure that is expected to reach 1.07 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 5.72 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of American Equity Investment Life Holding Company (AEL)
[American Equity Investment Life Holding Company, AEL] recent stats showed that its last 5-days Average volume was superior the volume it posted in the year-ago period. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 13.27% While, its Average True Range was 1.93.
Raw Stochastic average of American Equity Investment Life Holding Company (AEL) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 28.70%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 20.90% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 57.10% that was lower than 59.42% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.