AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC.
AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC. (AEP) has a dated report snapshot, but its current priced-in claim is temporarily suppressed because the live engine record is unavailable or has changed.
American Electric Power is a large regulated electric utility whose moat is structural: it owns the wires and the regulated franchise across eleven states, and it earns an allowed return on a growing rate base. At $127.67 (as of June 27, 2026) the price reads as paying about 22x company-wide operating income, low enough that the engine flags it as below what even a 5% annual operating-profit decline would warrant. The growth engine is contracted load. AEP added 7 GW of new load agreements in Q1
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1,880 institutional managers reported holding AEP in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 81% of the company; the top 10 hold 40%. 190 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 33.6M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 6% of shares outstanding (7.2 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
AEP's share count grew 8.4% over the past five years. It pays a dividend, and has for 2 years running; the current rate is $3.74 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $1.81B in dividends.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at AEP over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 19 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
AEP's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-28 | -2.5% | -11.9% |
| 2023-11-03 | +4.2% | +5.5% |
| 2024-02-27 | +2.0% | +2.4% |
| 2024-05-01 | +1.8% | -0.8% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
AEP's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-14 (items 1.01, 8.01, 9.01); 2026-05-05 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-04-29 (items 5.07, 9.01); 2026-02-17 (items 5.02); 2026-02-12 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: July 3, 2026
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