American Eagle Outfitters (AEO) Stock Price, News & Analysis

9 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for American Eagle Outfitters in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" AEO shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in AEO, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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9 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for American Eagle Outfitters' shares. Their AEO share price targets range from $10.00 to $31.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $21.27 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 5.5%.
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American Eagle Outfitters' stock was trading at $21.16 at the beginning of the year. Since then, AEO shares have increased by 6.4% and is now trading at $22.52.
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American Eagle Outfitters saw a increase in short interest in the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 22,990,000 shares, an increase of 14.5% from the March 15th total of 20,080,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 4,590,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 5.0 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 22nd 2024.
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American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. (NYSE:AEO) announced its earnings results on Thursday, March, 7th. The apparel retailer reported $0.61 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.50 by $0.11. The apparel retailer earned $1.68 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.67 billion. American Eagle Outfitters had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 17.76% and a net margin of 3.23%. The company's revenue was up 12.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $0.37 earnings per share.

American Eagle Outfitters declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, March 4th. Shareholders of record on Friday, April 12th will be paid a dividend of $0.125 per share on Friday, April 26th. This represents a $0.50 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.22%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, April 11th.
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American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE:AEO) pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.23%. The dividend payout ratio is 58.14%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, AEO will have a dividend payout ratio of 26.46% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE:AEO) stock in their portfolio include American Customer Satisfaction ETF (ACSI), Invesco S&P SmallCap Consumer Discretionary ETF (PSCD), Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF (CALF), Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows Growth Leaders ETF (CAFG), Alpha Architect U.S. Quantitative Momentum ETF (QMOM), SPDR S&P Retail ETF (XRT), AlphaMark Actively Managed Small Cap ETF (SMCP) and Direxion Daily Retail Bull 3X Shares (RETL).

American Eagle Outfitters announced that its board has initiated a share buyback program on Thursday, February 1st 2024, which authorizes the company to buyback 30,000,000 outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are usually an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

American Eagle Outfitters updated its FY 2024 earnings guidance on Friday, March, 8th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $5.4 billion-$5.5 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $5.4 billion.

1,054 employees have rated American Eagle Outfitters Chief Executive Officer Jay Schottenstein on Glassdoor.com. Jay Schottenstein has an approval rating of 81% among the company's employees.

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American Eagle Outfitters' stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.27%), Artemis Investment Management LLP (0.22%), Leeward Investments LLC MA (0.17%), Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.07%), Bridge City Capital LLC (0.06%) and State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.06%). Insiders that own company stock include Andrew J Mclean, Andrew J Mclean, Cary D Mcmillan, David M Sable, James H Keefer Jr, Jennifer M Foyle, Michael R Rempell, Noel Joseph Spiegel, Revathi Advaithi, Stacy Siegal and Steven A Davis.
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