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Gold is on fire - hitting $3,500 and outpacing stocks, tech, even Bitcoin. Analyst Sean Brodrick called it, and now he's forecasting a surge to $6,900. But the biggest opportunity isn't bullion. It's a little-known investment that's returned up to 1,000x more than physical gold.
Shares Stats
| Shares Outstanding | 711,910,000 |
| Shares Float | 708,340,000 |
| Shares Short | 38,840,000 |
| Insider Holdings | 46% |
| Institution Holdings | 91.31% |
About AES Corp
The AES Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a 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. It uses various fuels and technologies to generate electricity, such as coal, gas, hydro, wind, solar, and biomass, as well as renewables comprising energy storage and landfill gas. The company owns and/or operates a generation portfolio of approximately 32,109 megawatts and distributes power to 2.7 million customers. 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 headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
General
| Name | AES Corp |
| Ticker | AES |
| Exchange | NYSE |
| Sector | Utilities |
| Industry | Utilities - Diversified |
| Currency | USD |
| Country | USA |
| Fiscal Year End | December |
| Full Time Employees | 9,100 |
Highlights
| Analyst Target | 13.64 |
| Market Cap | 7,489,400,000 |
| PE Ratio | 5.74 |
| PEG Ratio | 1.09 |
| EBITDA | 3,119,000,064 |
Financials
| Curr Year EPS Estimate | 2.15 |
| Next Quarter EPS Estimate | 0.46 |
| Profit Margin | 10.78% |
| Operating Margin | 15.22 |
| Return on Assets | 0.02 |
| Return on Equity | 0.06 |
| Revenue | 12.1B |
| Earnings Per Share | 1.84 |
| Revenue Per Share | 17.04 |
| Gross Profit | 2,136,000,000 |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth | -0.05 |
Valuation
| Trailing PE | 5.83 |
| Forward PE | 4.99 |
| Price/Sales (Trailing 12 Mt.) | 0.63 |
| Price/Book (Most Recent Quarter) | 2.20 |
Dividend
AES Corp pays out a dividend of $0.70 per share, with a dividend yield of 6.67%.
AES's last dividend payment was made to shareholders on May 15, 2025.
They pay out 29.33% of their earnings out as a dividend.
Recent Dividends
| May 15, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Feb 14, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Nov 15, 2024 | $0.17 |
| Aug 15, 2024 | $0.17 |
| May 15, 2024 | $0.17 |
| Feb 15, 2024 | $0.17 |
| Nov 15, 2023 | $0.17 |
| Aug 15, 2023 | $0.17 |
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