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What is the share price of AES Corporation (AES)?

AES Corporation last traded at $14.87 (+0.3% on the day), as of 7/22/2026 — a delayed quote shown for education, not investment advice.

AES Corporation

AES · NYSE · Utilities · United States

$14.87+0.3%

Delayed · as reported by Yahoo Finance · as of Jul 22, 2026, 5:36 PM

Snapshot

TickerAES

ExchangeNYSE

SectorUtilities

IndustryUtilities - Diversified

CountryUnited States

Employees8,336

HeadquartersArlington, United States

Market cap$10.6B

P/B2.4

Volume2.94M

Websitewww.aes.com

Filings tracked0

About AES Corporation

The AES Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a power generation and utility company. It operates through four segments: Renewables, Utilities, Energy Infrastructure, and New Energy Technologies. The company owns and/or operates power plants to generate and sell power to customers, such as utilities, industrial users, and other intermediaries; owns and/or operates utilities to generate or purchase, distribute, transmit, and sell electricity to end-user customers in the residential, commercial, industrial, and governmental sectors; and generates and sells electricity on the wholesale market, as well as investments in technologies to support leading-edge greener energy solutions. It uses various fuels and technologies to generate electricity, such as solar, hydro, wind, coal, and gas, as well as renewables comprising energy storage and landfill gas. The company owns and/or operates a generation portfolio of approximately 34,740 megawatts and distributes power to 2.7 million customers. The company operates in the United States, Chile, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico, Bulgaria, Panama, Colombia, Argentina, Vietnam, Jordan, Puerto Rico, and internationally. The company was formerly known as Applied Energy Services, Inc. and changed its name to The AES Corporation in April 2000. The AES Corporation was incorporated in 1981 and is based in Arlington, Virginia.

Profile as reported by Yahoo Finance.

Who owns it

Insiders0.6%
Institutions89.6%
Public & other9.8%

974 institutional holders

As reported by Yahoo Finance.

Top holders

Blackrock Inc.6.61%
Vanguard Capital Management LLC6.49%
State Street Corporation6.03%
Vanguard Portfolio Management LLC4.98%
Ameriprise Financial, Inc.4.64%
Geode Capital Management, LLC3.44%
Morgan Stanley3.41%
Invesco Ltd.2.56%

Largest institutional holders, as reported by Yahoo Finance (as of 3/31/2026).

What's expected next

Next quarter

Rev $3.4B · EPS 0.73

Est. earnings growth -2.7%

Next fiscal year

Rev $13.4B · EPS 2.38

Est. earnings growth +5.1%

Analyst consensus estimates — not the company's own guidance. As reported by Yahoo Finance.

$12.3352-wk range$17.65

Delayed · as reported by Yahoo Finance

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