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

AEP POWR Grades

• AEP scores best on the Stability dimension, with a Stability rank ahead of 68.99% of US stocks.
• AEP's strongest trending metric is Momentum; it's been moving down over the last 177 days.
• AEP's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 21.8% of US stocks).

AEP Stock Summary

• With a market capitalization of $40,786,487,403, AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC has a greater market value than 94.45% of US stocks.
• Of note is the ratio of AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; just 0.26% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• For AEP, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by 94.43% of US equities we're observing.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC, a group of peers worth examining would be EXC, D, SRE, PCG, and DTE.
• 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 20.5; this is 4.06% higher than that of the median Utilities stock.
• Over the past 243 months, AEP's price/sales ratio has gone up 1.3.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for AEP.

AEP Growth Metrics

Its 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 854.74%.
• Its year over year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 15.26%.
• Its 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 162.64%.

AEP's revenue has moved up $4,387,400,000 over the prior 34 months.

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
2022-12-31	19,639.5	5,288	2,307.2
2022-09-30	18,819.8	5,600.1	2,461.8
2022-06-30	17,916.7	5,786.7	2,574.1
2022-03-31	17,103.5	5,579.3	2,627.8
2021-12-31	16,792	3,839.9	2,488.1
2021-09-30	16,341.2	3,883.7	2,384.7

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 35.33% of graded US stocks.
• AEP's asset turnover comes in at 0.195 -- ranking 65th of 105 Utilities stocks.
• ED, CMS, and ATO are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with AEP.

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