AES CORP (AES)
Cogeneration Services & Small Power Producers · Cogeneration Services & Small Power Producers · NYSE
$14.91
-0.07%
Investru Score
49.2 / 100
Neutral
Why is AES moving?
AES is little changed today (-0.07%).
Business overview
- Data unavailable for business quality metrics.
Data unavailable for business quality metrics.
Bull case
The stock trades at a low price-to-earnings multiple of 7.29 and forward P/E of 6.38, while maintaining positive price momentum above its moving averages and an ROE of 22.4%.
Bear case
A current ratio of 0.77 combined with negative free cash flow margins (-13.3%) severely restricts financial flexibility, exacerbated by sharply declining earnings.
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Score breakdown
- Financial Quality
- 47
- Growth
- 39
- Profitability
- 40
- Balance Sheet
- 40
- Valuation
- 63
- Momentum
- 82
Score history
-0.6 over the last 33 days, driven mainly by momentum (-6).
Financial quality
- Return on equity is 22.4%.
- Earnings quality is 4.73.
- FCF margin is -13.3%.
These financial quality figures show a high return on equity supported by solid earnings quality, though offset by negative free cash flow generation.
- ROIC
- Data unavailable
- ROE
- 22.4%
- FCF Margin
- -13.3%
- Free Cash Flow (TTM)
- $-1.6B
- Earnings Quality (OCF ÷ Net Income)
- 4.7x
Valuation
- P/E ratio is 7.29.
- Forward P/E ratio is 6.38.
- P/S ratio is 0.83.
- Free cash flow yield is -15.3%.
- Data unavailable for trailing PEG.
- Data unavailable for forward PEG.
- Data unavailable for median PEG.
- Data unavailable for EV-to-EBITDA.
These valuation figures indicate low earnings and sales multiples paired with a negative free cash flow yield.
- P/E (TTM)
- 7.3x
- Forward P/E
- 6.4x
- PEG (P/E ÷ EPS Growth)
- Data unavailable
- Company Median PEG
- Data unavailable
- Price / Sales
- 0.8x
- EV / EBITDA
- Data unavailable
- FCF Yield
- -15.3%
Key risks
- Short-term liquidity pressure indicated by a current ratio of 0.77.(Probability: High · Impact: High)
- Negative free cash flow margin of -13.3% and negative free cash flow yield of -15.3%.(Probability: High · Impact: High)
- Significant year-over-year EPS contraction of 46.6%.(Probability: High · Impact: Medium)
Latest earnings
- Q2 FY26 EPS
- $0.60
- Estimate
- $0.37
- Surprise
- +61.4%
- Earnings per share growth year-over-year is -46.6%.
- Earnings quality score is 4.73.
These earnings figures show significant contraction in per-share profitability despite an acceptable earnings quality score.
SEC filings
- 10-Q · Q2 FY26 · period ended 2026-06-30Filed 2026-08-04
- 10-Q · Q1 FY26 · period ended 2026-03-31Filed 2026-05-05
- 10-K · FY25 · period ended 2025-12-31Filed 2026-03-02
- 10-Q · Q3 FY25 · period ended 2025-09-30Filed 2025-11-04
- 10-Q · Q2 FY25 · period ended 2025-06-30Filed 2025-08-01
- 10-K · FY24 · period ended 2024-12-31Filed 2025-03-11
- 10-K · FY23 · period ended 2023-12-31Filed 2024-02-26
- 10-K · FY22 · period ended 2022-12-31Filed 2023-03-01
- 10-K · FY21 · period ended 2021-12-31Filed 2022-02-28
Event filings (8-K) aren't covered by this page's data source yet — only 10-K/10-Q are shown above.
Market cap $10.6B · 52-week range $13.21–$17.65 · market data as of Oct 2, 2026, 4:00 PM ET · latest SEC filing: 2026-08-04
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