The AES Corporation

AES · Utilities

$14.93
+0.07% today

What a holder would want to know before buying AES: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.

Where the price sits
Low $13.44 · Nov 2025High $17.28 · Feb 2026

Today’s price is 11% above the lowest point of the past year and 14% below the highest.

Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 92% of days and more expensive on 8%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 46% of days.

2% above its average price of the last 200 trading days.

How bad does it get

Fell 20% or more 5 times in 10 years. The deepest fall was 67%; the longest took 21 months to get back to its peak. 4 of 5 have recovered so far.

It is in one now: 49% below the Dec 2022 peak.

Dec 2022
−67%not back yet
Feb 2021
−35%back in 21 months
Feb 2020
−55%back in 9 months
Mar 2019
−21%back in 8 months
Sep 2016
−24%back in 21 months
What you own

The AES Corporation · Utilities · Utilities - Diversified · a large company worth $10.66B

The AES Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a power generation and utility company. It operates through four segments: Renewables, Utilities, Energy Infrastructure, and New Energy Technologies. The…

Is it making money?
2022
2023
2024
2025

revenue profit

Sales of $12.23B in 2025, with $910.00M of profit. Sales grew in 1 of the last 3 years.

Keeps about 14 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.

Is it healthy?
Cash
$1.85B
Debt
$32.94B
Free cash flow / yr
$-3.09B

Free cash flow is negative: the business spends more cash than it brings in, with $1.85B in the bank.

Is it expensive?

You pay $6 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $6 for every $1 of profit expected next year.

A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.

Pays 4.71% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Jul 31.

What others are doing

9 analysts: 0 say buy, 9 hold, 0 sell. Their average 12-month target is $15.00 (range $15.00–$15.00).

Insiders made 0 purchases and 0 sales in the last 6 months.

Free data from Yahoo Finance, refreshed daily. This is evidence about the business and its price history, not a recommendation.

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