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

9 Wall Street research 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 research 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 brokers have issued 12 month price targets for American Eagle Outfitters' stock. Their AEO share price targets range from $10.00 to $31.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $21.27 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.7%.
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American Eagle Outfitters' stock was trading at $21.16 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, AEO stock has increased by 4.4% and is now trading at $22.09.
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American Eagle Outfitters saw a increase in short interest in 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 trading volume, of 4,590,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 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 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.50 by $0.11. The apparel retailer had revenue of $1.68 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.67 billion. American Eagle Outfitters had a net margin of 3.23% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 17.76%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 12.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $0.37 earnings per share.

American Eagle Outfitters announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, March 4th. Stockholders 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 2.26%. 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 2.17%. 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 declared that its Board of Directors has approved a share buyback program on Thursday, February 1st 2024, which permits the company to repurchase 30,000,000 shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to repurchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are generally an indication that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

American Eagle Outfitters issued an update on 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 Artemis Investment Management LLP (0.22%), Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.07%), Bridge City Capital LLC (0.06%), FCF Advisors LLC (0.03%), Global Assets Advisory LLC (0.01%) and Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.00%). Insiders that own company stock include Andrew J Mclean, Andrew J Mclean, Cary D Mcmillan, Charles F Kessler, David M Sable, James H Keefer Jr, Jennifer M Foyle, Michael R Rempell, Michael R Rempell, Noel Joseph Spiegel, Revathi Advaithi, Stacy Siegal, Steven A Davis and Thomas R Ketteler.
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