American Electric Power Company, Inc.

AEP stock score: 65/100

$130.64 · +2.55% · Scored Oct 22, 2026

Technical
66
Fundamental
64
News
63

The reading

American Electric Power Company (AEP) scores 65 out of 100, which reads neutral, higher than 91% of Utilities stocks and 90% of the 4,161 US stocks we score.

The composite is technicals and fundamentals weighted equally: technicals read 66, fundamentals 64.

Among the fundamentals, Fund Ownership at 100 and Institutional Ownership at 100 score highest, while Earnings Growth (Quarterly) at 0 weighs the most against it.

On the daily chart, trend-following indicators average 70 and contrarian oscillators 25 — a split worth reading before trusting the technical total.

News sentiment is positive at 63; it is shown, not counted in the composite.

Since Jul 25, 2026 the composite has ranged from 57 to 76, and it is down 11 points over the period.

What’s driving the score

The strongest and weakest of the scorers that count toward AEP’s composite. Each returns 0–100, higher is more bullish — including metrics where low is good, like P/E.

Fundamental

64

Pulling it up

  • Fund Ownership100

    Fund ownership tracks institutional investor holdings and changes.

  • Institutional Ownership100

    Institutional ownership measures the percentage held by professional investors.

  • Earnings Growth (Annual)99

    Annual earnings growth tracks year-over-year profit expansion.

Holding it back

  • Earnings Growth (Quarterly)0

    Quarterly earnings growth measures profit increase versus the prior-year quarter.

  • Free Cash Flow Yield2

    Free cash flow yield is free cash flow divided by market value: the cash a business generates for each dollar of its price.

  • Quick Ratio16

    Quick ratio measures a company's ability to meet short-term obligations with liquid assets.

41 weighted scorers.

Technical · daily

64

Pulling it up

  • Know Sure Thing (KST)100

    Know Sure Thing (KST) combines multiple rate-of-change calculations to identify long-term trend reversals.

  • Parabolic SAR (PSAR)100

    Parabolic SAR (Stop and Reverse) provides trailing stop levels that follow price trends.

  • VWAP100

    Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) shows the average price weighted by volume.

Holding it back

  • Bollinger Bands (50)0

    Bollinger Bands (50-period) measure where price sits between bands two standard deviations around its 50-period average.

  • Bollinger Bands (20)0

    Bollinger Bands (20-period) plot standard deviations above and below a moving average.

  • Williams %R (28)0

    Williams %R (28-period) places the close within the last 28 periods' high-low range.

62 weighted scorers; 3 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

News · shown, not counted

Global News
63

Technical score by timeframe

ChartScoreWeight
Hourly601
Daily643
Weekly642
Monthly712
Quarterly702

Composite score, last 90 days

05010065Jul 25, 2026Oct 22, 2026Jul 25, 2026: 76Jul 26, 2026: 76Jul 27, 2026: 67Jul 28, 2026: 68Jul 29, 2026: 67Jul 30, 2026: 69Jul 31, 2026: 68Aug 2, 2026: 59Aug 3, 2026: 58Aug 4, 2026: 58Aug 5, 2026: 57Aug 6, 2026: 57Aug 7, 2026: 59Aug 8, 2026: 59Aug 9, 2026: 59Aug 10, 2026: 57Aug 11, 2026: 58Aug 12, 2026: 58Aug 13, 2026: 61Aug 14, 2026: 60Aug 15, 2026: 59Aug 16, 2026: 58Aug 17, 2026: 59Aug 18, 2026: 61Aug 19, 2026: 62Aug 20, 2026: 60Aug 22, 2026: 58Aug 23, 2026: 58Aug 24, 2026: 58Aug 25, 2026: 59Aug 26, 2026: 60Aug 27, 2026: 59Aug 28, 2026: 59Aug 29, 2026: 61Aug 30, 2026: 61Aug 31, 2026: 58Sep 1, 2026: 61Sep 2, 2026: 61Sep 3, 2026: 62Sep 4, 2026: 61Sep 5, 2026: 62Sep 6, 2026: 62Sep 7, 2026: 61Sep 8, 2026: 63Sep 9, 2026: 62Sep 10, 2026: 60Sep 11, 2026: 60Sep 12, 2026: 60Sep 13, 2026: 60Sep 14, 2026: 59Sep 15, 2026: 58Sep 16, 2026: 58Sep 17, 2026: 59Sep 18, 2026: 59Sep 19, 2026: 59Sep 20, 2026: 59Sep 21, 2026: 59Sep 22, 2026: 59Sep 23, 2026: 60Sep 24, 2026: 60Sep 25, 2026: 59Sep 26, 2026: 59Sep 27, 2026: 59Sep 28, 2026: 59Sep 29, 2026: 59Sep 30, 2026: 59Oct 1, 2026: 58Oct 2, 2026: 60Oct 3, 2026: 60Oct 4, 2026: 60Oct 5, 2026: 58Oct 6, 2026: 60Oct 7, 2026: 61Oct 8, 2026: 61Oct 9, 2026: 62Oct 10, 2026: 62Oct 11, 2026: 62Oct 12, 2026: 63Oct 13, 2026: 63Oct 14, 2026: 63Oct 15, 2026: 62Oct 16, 2026: 64Oct 17, 2026: 64Oct 18, 2026: 64Oct 19, 2026: 62Oct 20, 2026: 64Oct 21, 2026: 64Oct 22, 2026: 65
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Key facts

Market cap
$71.1B
Sector
Utilities
Industry
Utilities - Regulated Electric
Beta
0.47
Risk grade (1–10)
7
Next earnings
Oct 28, 2026

Utilities - Regulated Electric peers

CompanyMarket capScore
SO The Southern Company$107.9B62
DUK Duke Energy$97.8B64
NGG National Grid$83.1B60
D Dominion Energy$57.5B60
ETR Entergy$51.7B63
XEL Xcel Energy$49.3B62

Questions

What is AEP's stock score today?

AEP scores 65/100 (Neutral) as of Oct 22, 2026: technical 66, fundamental 64, and news sentiment 63, which is shown but not counted. Scores are recomputed every night.

Is AEP a buy?

The score is not a buy or sell recommendation. A 65 says the technical and fundamental signals we measure lean neutral today, relative to every other stock scored the same way. Use the breakdown above to see why, and treat it as a starting point for your own research.

How is the AEP score calculated?

103 weighted scorers feed it today: 41 fundamental, scored against Utilities ranges, and 62 technical on the daily chart, with 5 timeframes blended into the technical total. Every scorer returns 0–100; missing data is left out, never counted as zero.

Scores are information, not investment advice. Computed from Yahoo Finance, Finnhub and Alpha Vantage data; technical indicators via TA-Lib. Past scores do not predict future returns.