American Electric Power Company Inc. (NASDAQ: AEP) started the day on Thursday, with a price increase of 0.57% at $86.86, before settling in for the price of $86.37 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, AEP posted a 52-week range of $69.38-$94.73.
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It was noted that the giant of the Utilities sector posted annual sales growth of 4.02% over the last 5 years. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 1.73%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 6.67%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $526.18 million, simultaneously with a float of $525.79 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $45.70 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $83.30, while the 200-day Moving Average is $80.28.
American Electric Power Company Inc. (AEP) Ownership Facts and Figures
Now let’s turn our focus to how large-scale investors are working with this stock of the Utilities – Regulated Electric Industry. American Electric Power Company Inc.’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.08%, in contrast to 76.25% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on May 02 ’23, this organization’s Executive Chair sold 10,491 shares at the rate of 92.75, making the entire transaction reach 973,040 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 125,520. Preceding that transaction, on May 02 ’23, Company’s Executive Vice President sold 1,616 for 92.75, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 149,884. This particular insider is now the holder of 8,925 in total.
American Electric Power Company Inc. (AEP) Earnings and Revenue Records
American Electric Power Company Inc.’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 6.67% and is forecasted to reach 5.96 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 5.72% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 1.73% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.
American Electric Power Company Inc. (NASDAQ: AEP) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for American Electric Power Company Inc. (AEP). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 0.36. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 1.70. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $20.45, and its Beta score is 0.50. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 2.36.
In the same vein, AEP’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 4.25, a figure that is expected to reach 1.26 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 5.96 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of American Electric Power Company Inc. (AEP)
If we take a close look at the recent performances of American Electric Power Company Inc. (NASDAQ: AEP), its last 5-days Average volume was 3.69 million that shows plunge from its year to date volume of 3.77 million. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 96.94% While, its Average True Range was 1.77.
Raw Stochastic average of American Electric Power Company Inc. (AEP) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 97.16%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 95.77% 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 21.03% that was higher than 20.93% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
