American Electric Power Company, Inc. (AEP) Stock

About American Electric Power Company, Inc.

American Electric Power Company, Inc. is led by CEO William J. Fehrman, employs 16,330 people, headquartered in Columbus, US, publicly traded since 1962.

American Electric Power Company, Inc. (AEP) stock trades at $127.14 with a market capitalization of $69.21B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 20.34, price-to-book of 2.00, price-to-sales of 2.86. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $97.46 and $140.58, and currently trades 9.6% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 3.21%.

On profitability, American Electric Power Company, Inc. generates a return on equity (ROE) of 10.01%, return on capital employed of 5.95%, an operating margin of 23.47%, a net profit margin of 13.95%.

In its most recent fiscal year, American Electric Power Company, Inc. reported annual revenue of $21.8B, net profit of $3.6B. Over the last 5 fiscal years, revenue grew at an average annual rate of 7.9%, and net profit grew at an average annual rate of 10.2%. Over that span net profit grew faster than revenue, so net margin widened.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.66, a current ratio of 0.45, total assets of $117.2B, $268.0M in cash and equivalents.

AEP has an average daily trading volume of 4,307,268 shares, a beta of 0.50 (historically less volatile than the overall market).