AES Stock Price, Chart, Stats & News
The AES Corporation (AES) is a dividend-paying stock with a current dividend yield of 4.77% as of Jul 17, 2026. It pays $0.7038 per share over the trailing twelve months and distributes quarterly. Its dividend has grown at a 3.69% 5-year compound annual rate.
Dividend safety
Dividend coverage looks healthy — AES pays out about 26% of earnings.
AES chart
Fundamentals
Gross margin | 18.07% |
Operating margin | 15.00% |
Pretax margin | 3.86% |
Net margin | 7.33% |
Effective tax rate | 57.42% |
ROA | 1.73% |
ROE | 20.40% |
D/E | 4.40x |
Interest coverage ratio | 1.32x |
AES valuation
P/E | 5.39x |
P/S | 0.82x |
P/B | 1.45x |
P/CF | 2.32x |
P/FCF | -6.15x |
P/OCF | 2.32x |
PEG | -0.54x |
EV multiple | -5.42x |
About
The AES Corporation operates as an international enterprise primarily focused on electricity generation and distribution. Its activities involve both the ownership and management of power plants, producing and supplying electricity to a diverse clientele that includes other utility companies, large industrial consumers, and various intermediate purchasers. Beyond generation, AES also functions as a utility provider, managing infrastructure to either produce or acquire, then transmit, distribute, and ultimately sell power directly to end-users across residential, commercial, industrial, and governmental sectors.
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