American Electric Power Company, Inc. (AEP): Price and Financial Metrics

AEP POWR Grades

• Stability is the dimension where AEP ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 73.21% of US stocks.
• AEP's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving down over the last 48 weeks.
• AEP's current lowest rank is in the Momentum metric (where it is better than 17.64% of US stocks).

AEP Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of American Electric Power Co Inc's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; just 0.42% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• For AEP, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by 94.11% of US equities we're observing.
• The volatility of American Electric Power Co Inc's share price is greater than that of only 3.54% US stocks with at least 200 days of trading history.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to American Electric Power Co Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be WEC, PEG, TRP, SRE, and ES.
• AEP's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit American Electric Power Co Inc's official web site, go to www.aep.com.

AEP Valuation Summary

• AEP's price/earnings ratio is 19.4; this is 13.78% lower than that of the median Utilities stock.
• AEP's EV/EBIT ratio has moved up 1.5 over the prior 243 months.
• AEP's price/sales ratio has moved up 2.5 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for AEP.

AEP Growth Metrics

• Its 5 year price growth rate is now at 33.21%.
• The year over year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at -80.61%.
• The 2 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 3.87%.

Over the past 15 months, AEP's revenue has gone up $532,500,000.

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

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-06-30	15,784.6	3,130.6	2,337.3
2021-03-31	15,452.1	3,100	2,279.9
2020-12-31	14,918.5	3,832.9	2,200.1
2020-09-30	14,923.9	3,842.4	1,918.1
2020-06-30	15,172.5	4,215.5	1,903
2020-03-31	15,252.1	4,077.5	1,843.5

AEP'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.

• AEP has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 36.55% of graded US stocks.
• AEP's asset turnover comes in at 0.193 -- ranking 67th of 105 Utilities stocks.
• ED, CMS, and AEE are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with AEP.

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