Aaron's (AAN) Stock Price, News & Analysis

6 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Aaron's in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" AAN shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in AAN, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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6 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Aaron's' shares. Their AAN share price targets range from $7.00 to $18.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $11.67 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 59.6% from the stock's current price.
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Aaron's' stock was trading at $10.88 at the start of the year. Since then, AAN stock has decreased by 32.8% and is now trading at $7.31.
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Aaron's saw a decrease in short interest in the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 433,900 shares, a decrease of 18.6% from the March 15th total of 533,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 272,400 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.6 days. Approximately 1.4% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, May 6th 2024.
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Aaron's will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, May 7th at 8:30 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

The Aaron's Company, Inc. (NYSE:AAN) released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February, 27th. The company reported ($0.26) EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.03 by $0.29. The business had revenue of $529.50 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $542.07 million. Aaron's had a net margin of 0.13% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 3.59%. The firm's revenue was down 10.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $0.09 EPS.

Aaron's declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, February 26th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, March 14th will be given a dividend of $0.125 per share on Wednesday, April 3rd. This represents a $0.50 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 6.84%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, March 13th.
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Aaron's (NYSE:AAN) pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 7.09%. AAN has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The company has been increasing its dividend for 13 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 625.00%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on earnings estimates, AAN will have a dividend payout ratio of 74.63% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Roundhill Acquirers Deep Value ETF holds 50,257 shares of AAN stock, representing 1.06% of its portfolio.

Aaron's updated its FY 2024 earnings guidance on Tuesday, February, 27th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of -0.100-0.250 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 1.090. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.1 billion-$2.2 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.2 billion.

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Aaron's' stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.53%) and DGS Capital Management LLC (0.04%). Insiders that own company stock include Douglas A Lindsay, Douglass L Noe, Hubert L Jr Harris, John W Robinson, Kelly Hefner Barrett, Marvonia P Moore, Rachel G George, Stephen W Olsen and Wangdali Bacdayan.
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