The AES Corporation
Utilities · Utilities - Diversified · Price, fundamentals, signals, and forward-looking context in one research view.
Utilities
$10.5B
4.8%
5.52
Current price
$14.73
0.0% todayUpdated 2h ago
Open
$14.73
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Previous close
$14.73
Day range
$14.71 – $14.75
Volume
N/A
5.5x P/E
Awaiting filing
4.8% yield
35/100 measured
Easy to trade
Recent price movement, key market context and the latest company information.
The latest saved price history for AES, with its range and direction at a glance.
The AES Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a power generation and utility company. It operates through four segments: Renewables, Utilities, Energy Infrastructure, and New Energy Technologies. 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, as well as investments in technologies to support leading-edge greener energy solutions. It uses various fuels and technologies to generate electricity, such as solar, hydro, wind, coal, and gas, as well as renewables comprising energy storage and landfill gas. The company owns and/or operates a generation portfolio of approximately 34,740 megawatts and distributes power to 2.7 million customers. The company operates in the United States, Chile, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico, Bulgaria, Panama, Colombia, Argentina, Vietnam, Jordan, Puerto Rico, and internationally. The company was formerly known as Applied Energy Services, Inc. and changed its name to The AES Corporation in April 2000. The AES Corporation was incorporated in 1981 and is based in Arlington, Virginia.
Investors usually follow AES for its dividend profile, valuation signal, sector position, and upcoming company events. The goal here is not just to show numbers, but to explain what they mean in plain English.
Whisone is mixed because income looks acceptable with a 4.8% yield while there is no strong bear warning from the current data. Whisone has low conviction here. The final read is being balanced by the weighted scores for fundamentals, technicals, insider flow, sentiment, event flow, and liquidity.
Whisone v2 splits the read into weighted parts so the score is not just one hidden number.
Fundamentals
Growth, margins, cash flow, and valuation.
Latest net profit
$426M
TTM (2026-06-30)
ROE
9.6%
Return on equity
ROA
3.0%
Return on assets
Debt / equity
6.50
Lower is usually safer.
P/B ratio
2.13
Useful for book value support.
Dividend yield
4.8%
Current income signal.
85/100
Direction
Range-bound
Main supports
Recent price and fundamentals refreshes improve signal reliability.
What can go wrong
Execution risk and market swings can still delay the forecast playing out.
Fair value
$14.87
Analyst view
None
Analyst target
$15.00
Forecast refresh
Updated 6h ago
Quality score
56
Growth score
50
These are the external analyst numbers and business outlook figures already synced into the company record.
No external analyst outlook is available for this company yet.
$0.18
2025-01-31
Payment: TBA | Qualification: 2025-01-31 | Yield at declaration: N/A
$0.17
2024-11-01
Payment: TBA | Qualification: 2024-11-01 | Yield at declaration: N/A
A plain-English reading of momentum, trend, volatility, range position, and trading participation.
RSI
N/A
Momentum data is not available yet.
Recent trend
Sideways
+0.3% across the latest saved price window.
Volatility
Moderate
Beta is 0.95. Price sensitivity is broadly around the market range.
52-week position
45% of range
Price is sitting around the middle of its 52-week range.
Volume confirmation
N/A
Comparable volume data is not available.
industry_profile_adjustment_+1.5
AES may also move because the UTILITIES sector may move with industry_profile_adjustment_+1.5. Confidence 63%.
IA states it applies a +1.5 Industry Profile Adjustment to Nigerian power generation, reflecting regulatory support, barriers to entry and low cyclicality, partly offset by offtaker concentration, gas-supply and liquidity risks; IA says the Geregu default alone does not change th
regulatory intervention / board replacement
AES may also move because the UTILITIES sector may move with regulatory intervention / board replacement. Confidence 60%.
NERC dissolved the board of Kaduna DisCo and appointed an interim board due to financial and operational failures, indicating regulatory actions impacting distribution utilities.
private_embedded_IPPs
AES may also move because the UTILITIES sector may benefit from private_embedded_ipps. Confidence 60%.
Article describes a wave of private embedded and independent power plants being built alongside distribution companies to narrow Nigeria's electricity supply gap, which would increase generation capacity and support utilities' service reliability efforts.
credit/bond_concerns
AES may also move because the UTILITIES sector may move with credit/bond_concerns. Confidence 49%.
The article highlights bond default concerns for a listed utilities company (Geregu), indicating credit concerns impacting the utilities firm.
credit_market_scrutiny
AES may also move because the UTILITIES sector may move with credit_market_scrutiny. Confidence 49%.
Analysts have questioned deployment of bond proceeds and restricted cash tied to an unfinished power-plant acquisition, drawing scrutiny to financing and disclosure in the utilities/power context.
debt obligations
AES may also move because the UTILITIES sector may move with debt obligations. Confidence 49%.
Geregu Power (a utilities company) had outstanding bond obligations requiring intervention, indicating debt servicing can affect utilities operations.
sector credit risk
AES may also move because the UTILITIES sector may move with sector credit risk. Confidence 49%.
A utilities company (Geregu Power) recently defaulted and then made a partial bond payment, indicating credit/default developments within the sector.
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Industry
Utilities - Diversified
Employees
8336
Exchange
NYQ
Ticker
AES