American Equity Investment Life Holding Company (AEL): Price and Financial Metrics

AEL POWR Grades

• Momentum is the dimension where AEL ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 78.33% of US stocks.
• AEL's strongest trending metric is Momentum; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• AEL's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 22.35% of US stocks).

AEL Stock Summary

• Price to trailing twelve month operating cash flow for AEL is currently 0.93, higher than only 3.36% of US stocks with positive operating cash flow.
• Equity multiplier, or assets relative to shareholders' equity, comes in at 12.17 for American Equity Investment Life Holding Co; that's greater than it is for 95.04% of US stocks.
• Revenue growth over the past 12 months for American Equity Investment Life Holding Co comes in at 52.16%, a number that bests 82.21% of the US stocks we're tracking.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to AEL, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are LOCO, POAI, MCS, PUMP, and TDW.
• Visit AEL's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.american-equity.com.

AEL Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Financial Services stock, AEL's price/earnings ratio is 68.18% lower, now standing at 3.5.
• AEL's price/earnings ratio has moved down 2.8 over the prior 216 months.
• Over the past 216 months, AEL's price/sales ratio has gone up 0.5.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for AEL.

AEL Growth Metrics

Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 504.83%.
• The 2 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 95.83%.
• Its 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 159.21%.

AEL's revenue has moved up $1,260,525,000 over the prior 34 months.

The table below shows AEL's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	3,689.471	4,233.164	430.317
2021-09-30	3,609.909	1,587.046	341.837
2021-06-30	3,866.051	2,257.126	861.14
2021-03-31	3,710.559	2,941.567	673.374
2020-12-31	2,424.649	1,304.986	637.945
2020-09-30	2,508.785	1,418.353	864.357

AEL's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• AEL has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 35.48% of graded US stocks.
• AEL's asset turnover comes in at 0.054 -- ranking 120th of 133 Insurance stocks.
• NWLI, ESGR, and BHF are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with AEL.

The table below shows AEL's key quality metrics over time.