AES (NYSE:AES) Releases FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

AES (NYSE:AES) issued an update on its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Friday morning. 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.

AES Stock Up 12.3 %

AES stock traded up $1.28 during trading on Friday, reaching $11.66. 27,517,765 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 14,713,907. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of $11.54 and a 200 day simple moving average of $14.59. AES has a 12 month low of $9.88 and a 12 month high of $22.21. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.21, a quick ratio of 0.80 and a current ratio of 0.85. The company has a market capitalization of $8.29 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 8.10, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.82 and a beta of 0.99.

AES (NYSE:AES) last posted its earnings results on Friday, February 28th. The utilities provider reported $0.54 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.34 by $0.20. AES had a net margin of 8.34% and a return on equity of 27.30%. The company had revenue of $2.96 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $3.07 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $0.73 earnings per share. On average, equities research analysts anticipate that AES will post 1.93 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

AES Dividend Announcement

The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, May 15th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, May 1st will be given a dividend of $0.176 per share. This represents a $0.70 annualized dividend and a yield of 6.04%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 1st. AES’s dividend payout ratio is presently 48.61%.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several equities research analysts have recently commented on the stock. HSBC began coverage on shares of AES in a research note on Friday, December 13th. They set a “buy” rating and a $17.00 price objective for the company. Mizuho cut their price objective on AES from $24.00 to $16.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, November 21st. Susquehanna reduced their price objective on AES from $24.00 to $21.00 and set a “positive” rating for the company in a research note on Tuesday, November 5th. Barclays cut their price target on shares of AES from $17.00 to $12.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a report on Monday, January 27th. Finally, Hsbc Global Res upgraded shares of AES to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Friday, December 13th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, two have assigned a hold rating, eight have assigned a buy rating and two have given a strong buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $18.80.

About AES

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.