AES (NYSE:AES) Releases FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

AES (NYSE:AES) updated its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Friday. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 2.100-2.260 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of 2.030. The company issued revenue guidance of -. AES also updated its FY25 guidance to $2.10-2.26 EPS.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several research analysts recently issued reports on the stock. HSBC assumed coverage on shares of AES in a research report on Friday, December 13th. They set a “buy” rating and a $17.00 price target on the stock. Mizuho reduced their price target on shares of AES from $24.00 to $16.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, November 21st. Bank of America assumed coverage on shares of AES in a research report on Monday, November 25th. They set an “underperform” rating and a $11.00 price target on the stock. Hsbc Global Res upgraded shares of AES to a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Friday, December 13th. Finally, Susquehanna cut their target price on shares of AES from $24.00 to $21.00 and set a “positive” rating on the stock in a research report on Tuesday, November 5th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, two have given a hold rating, eight have issued a buy rating and two have assigned a strong buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $18.80.

AES Stock Performance

Shares of NYSE:AES opened at $11.59 on Friday. The company has a market capitalization of $8.24 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 8.05, a P/E/G ratio of 0.82 and a beta of 0.99. The firm’s 50 day simple moving average is $11.51 and its 200 day simple moving average is $14.53. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.21, a current ratio of 0.85 and a quick ratio of 0.80. AES has a fifty-two week low of $9.88 and a fifty-two week high of $22.21.

AES (NYSE:AES) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Friday, February 28th. The utilities provider reported $0.54 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.34 by $0.20. The business had revenue of $2.96 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.07 billion. AES had a net margin of 8.34% and a return on equity of 27.30%. During the same period last year, the company posted $0.73 EPS. As a group, sell-side analysts forecast that AES will post 1.93 earnings per share for the current year.

AES Announces Dividend

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, May 15th. Investors of record on Thursday, May 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.176 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 1st. This represents a $0.70 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 6.08%. AES’s payout ratio is 48.61%.

AES Company Profile

The AES Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a diversified power generation and utility company in the United States and internationally. The company owns and/or operates power plants to generate and sell power to customers, such as utilities, industrial users, and other intermediaries; owns and/or operates utilities to generate or purchase, distribute, transmit, and sell electricity to end-user customers in the residential, commercial, industrial, and governmental sectors; and generates and sells electricity on the wholesale market.