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

10 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for American Eagle Outfitters in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 6 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities 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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10 brokerages have issued twelve-month price objectives for American Eagle Outfitters' stock. Their AEO share price targets range from $10.00 to $22.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $17.73 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 21.1%.
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American Eagle Outfitters' stock was trading at $21.16 at the start of the year. Since then, AEO stock has increased by 6.2% and is now trading at $22.48.
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American Eagle Outfitters saw a drop in short interest during the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totaling 19,400,000 shares, a drop of 6.8% from the December 15th total of 20,810,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 5,100,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.8 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, March 6th 2024.
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American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. (NYSE:AEO) announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, November, 21st. The apparel retailer reported $0.49 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.48 by $0.01. The apparel retailer had revenue of $1.30 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.28 billion. American Eagle Outfitters had a net margin of 4.30% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 15.23%. American Eagle Outfitters's revenue for the quarter was up 4.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the company earned $0.42 earnings per share.

American Eagle Outfitters declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, December 13th. Investors of record on Friday, January 5th will be paid a dividend of $0.125 per share on Friday, January 19th. This represents a $0.50 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.22%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, January 4th. This is a boost from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.10.
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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 2.22%. The dividend payout ratio is 45.05%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, AEO will have a dividend payout ratio of 33.11% 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), SPDR S&P Retail ETF (XRT), Ballast Small/Mid Cap ETF (MGMT), Direxion Daily Retail Bull 3X Shares (RETL), Distillate Small/Mid Cash Flow ETF (DSMC), Royce Quant Small-Cap Quality Value ETF (SQLV) and iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF (IJS).

American Eagle Outfitters declared that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock repurchase program on Thursday, February 1st 2024, which authorizes the company to repurchase 30,000,000 shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are generally a sign that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

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 a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (5.57%), Cooke & Bieler LP (3.47%), Pacer Advisors Inc. (3.08%), Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (1.46%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (1.07%) and Russell Investments Group Ltd. (0.54%). Insiders that own company stock include Andrew J Mclean, Andrew J Mclean, Cary D Mcmillan, Charles F Kessler, David M Sable, 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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Shares of AEO stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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