The AES Co. Forecasted to Post Q1 2025 Earnings of $0.22 Per Share (NYSE:AES)

The AES Co. (NYSE:AES) – Equities researchers at Zacks Research increased their Q1 2025 earnings estimates for shares of AES in a research note issued on Monday, September 30th. Zacks Research analyst R. Department now anticipates that the utilities provider will earn $0.22 per share for the quarter, up from their prior forecast of $0.21. The consensus estimate for AES’s current full-year earnings is $1.90 per share. Zacks Research also issued estimates for AES’s Q2 2025 earnings at $0.30 EPS, Q1 2026 earnings at $0.37 EPS and FY2026 earnings at $2.14 EPS.

A number of other analysts have also recently commented on AES. Jefferies Financial Group started coverage on shares of AES in a research note on Wednesday, September 11th. They issued a “buy” rating and a $20.00 target price for the company. Barclays cut their target price on AES from $23.00 to $22.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a research report on Monday, July 22nd. Finally, Evercore ISI raised AES to a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, September 18th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, two have issued a hold rating, six have given a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $21.50.

AES Price Performance

NYSE AES opened at $20.25 on Wednesday. AES has a 12-month low of $11.43 and a 12-month high of $22.21. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $17.69 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $18.20. The company has a current ratio of 0.97, a quick ratio of 0.91 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.63. The firm has a market capitalization of $14.39 billion, a P/E ratio of 28.11 and a beta of 1.07.

AES (NYSE:AES) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, August 1st. The utilities provider reported $0.38 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.36 by $0.02. The company had revenue of $2.94 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.22 billion. AES had a net margin of 6.07% and a return on equity of 32.74%. AES’s revenue was down 2.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the company posted $0.21 earnings per share.

AES Dividend Announcement

The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, August 15th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, August 1st were given a dividend of $0.1725 per share. This represents a $0.69 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.41%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, August 1st. AES’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 95.83%.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On AES

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Rise Advisors LLC boosted its holdings in shares of AES by 92.4% in the second quarter. Rise Advisors LLC now owns 1,499 shares of the utilities provider’s stock valued at $26,000 after acquiring an additional 720 shares in the last quarter. Rothschild Investment LLC purchased a new position in shares of AES during the 2nd quarter worth approximately $28,000. UMB Bank n.a. lifted its holdings in shares of AES by 102.3% in the 2nd quarter. UMB Bank n.a. now owns 1,776 shares of the utilities provider’s stock valued at $31,000 after buying an additional 898 shares during the period. Riverview Trust Co acquired a new position in AES during the first quarter worth $33,000. Finally, nVerses Capital LLC acquired a new stake in AES in the second quarter valued at $33,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 93.13% of the company’s stock.

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.