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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

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Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
AEP American Electric Power	$84.20 +2.0%	$82.75	$69.38 ▼ $94.73	$44.34B	0.51	3.79 million shs	5.41 million shs
VRS Verso	$26.99	$26.78	$14.01 ▼ $27.29	$786.89M	1.91	426,516 shs	N/A

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Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
AEP American Electric Power	+1.62%	-0.42%	-0.91%	+6.25%	-11.74%
VRS Verso	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%

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MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
AEP American Electric Power	4.339 of 5 stars	2.2	5.0	4.2	1.0	2.7	1.7	1.9
VRS Verso	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Ratings

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
AEP American Electric Power	2.36	Hold	$86.08	2.24% Upside
VRS Verso	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Current Analyst Ratings

Latest VANL, GYG, AEP, VRS, and MCE Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
4/15/2024	AEP American Electric Power	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$83.00 ➝ $84.00
3/11/2024	AEP American Electric Power	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Neutral ➝ Sell	$86.00 ➝ $83.00
3/8/2024	AEP American Electric Power	LADENBURG THALM/SH SH Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Neutral ➝ Sell	$75.50 ➝ $73.00
2/28/2024	AEP American Electric Power	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Overweight ➝ Equal Weight	$84.00 ➝ $83.00
2/27/2024	AEP American Electric Power	Cfra Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy ➝ Buy	$90.00 ➝ $92.00
2/27/2024	AEP American Electric Power	BMO Capital Markets Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$87.00 ➝ $88.00
1/22/2024	AEP American Electric Power	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$82.00 ➝ $84.00
1/22/2024	AEP American Electric Power	BMO Capital Markets Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$94.00 ➝ $88.00
1/22/2024	AEP American Electric Power	Guggenheim Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Buy ➝ Neutral	$81.00

(Data available from 4/19/2021 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
AEP American Electric Power	$19B	2.33	$11.65 per share	7.23	$48.06 per share	1.75
VRS Verso	$1.28B	0.62	$6.22 per share	4.34	$23.98 per share	1.13

Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
AEP American Electric Power	$2.21B	$4.25	19.81	14.22	2.87	11.64%	11.04%	2.85%	4/30/2024 (Confirmed)
VRS Verso	-$3M	$0.13	207.62	∞	N/A	-0.23%	15.98%	8.75%	N/A

Latest VANL, GYG, AEP, VRS, and MCE Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue	Details
4/30/2024	N/A	AEP American Electric Power	$1.36	N/A	-$1.36	N/A	N/A	N/A
2/27/2024	12/31/2023	AEP American Electric Power	$1.26	$1.23	-$0.03	$1.82	$5.12 billion	$4.60 billion

Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
AEP American Electric Power	$3.52	4.18%	+5.87%	82.82%	14 Years
VRS Verso	$0.40	1.48%	N/A	307.69%	N/A

Latest VANL, GYG, AEP, VRS, and MCE Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
1/19/2024	AEP American Electric Power	quarterly	$0.88	4.53%	2/8/2024	2/9/2024	3/8/2024

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
AEP American Electric Power	1.49	0.53	0.36
VRS Verso	N/A	2.47	1.71

Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
AEP American Electric Power	75.24%
VRS Verso	81.35%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
AEP American Electric Power	0.12%
VRS Verso	0.87%

Miscellaneous

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
AEP American Electric Power	17,250	526.59 million	525.96 million	Optionable
VRS Verso	1,600	29.16 million	28.90 million	Optionable

VANL, GYG, AEP, VRS, and MCE Headlines

Source	Headline
	Cabinet Office signs up cyber security firm to assess vulnerabilities on government websites civilserviceworld.com - April 17 at 10:39 AM
	New Toyota Proace Verso and Proace City Verso electric MPVs look awfully familiar autoexpress.co.uk - February 14 at 10:09 AM
	Proace Verso EV and Proace Verso City EV are now available in the UK electrive.com - February 9 at 9:35 AM
	How the Skoda Enyaq vRS adds more spark to electric driving whatcar.com - February 5 at 1:06 AM
	Versailles Airport, Versailles, United States [ VRS / ] prokerala.com - January 31 at 7:48 AM
	Powersoft to introduce Verso gateway device at ISE 2024 inavateonthenet.net - January 16 at 10:17 AM
	Skoda Octavia vRS \| Shed of the Week pistonheads.com - November 13 at 7:57 AM
	Neuer Einstiegsmotor im Verso: Toyota dieselt jetzt mit BMW n-tv.de - November 2 at 1:27 PM
	Verso Instruments Wraps Cosmo Electric Guitar in Vibrant Metal hypebeast.com - October 10 at 8:21 PM
	Ryder Cup Taps Verso Live for Unreal Graphics msn.com - October 5 at 4:39 PM
	How Verso Live helped put the ‘viewer at the forefront’ of the Ryder Cup tvbeurope.com - October 4 at 7:24 AM
	Verkehrsverbünde VRR und VRS erhöhen Preise kräftig welt.de - October 1 at 10:49 AM
	Mattia Chiai appointed chef de cuisine at Grand Hyatt Abu Dhabi’s Verso hoteliermiddleeast.com - September 24 at 9:13 AM
	Verso feierte Sommersause in Berlin meedia.de - September 12 at 2:00 PM
	Digging Deeper: Virginia Retirement System maintains active members not impacted by recent breach, but personal information could still be at risk wric.com - August 31 at 7:40 PM
	Sri Lanka Insurance management announces new job-destruction scheme wsws.org - August 31 at 1:22 AM
	POL-COE: Coesfeld, Mittelstraße/Toyota Verso bei Unfall beschädigt wa.de - August 14 at 3:03 PM
	Gebrauchtwagencheck: Toyota Verso - solide, aber nicht der Hellste n-tv.de - August 14 at 3:03 PM
	Gebrauchter Toyota Verso mit solidem Auftritt beim TÜV autogazette.de - August 14 at 5:34 AM
	Gebrauchtwagencheck: Toyota Verso - die Schwäche ist das Licht n-tv.de - August 11 at 6:36 PM
	Mehr Sein als Schein: Gebrauchtwagen-Check: Toyota Verso welt.de - August 9 at 5:21 PM
	Faber, Verso and Bloomsbury books up for 2023 Cundill History Prize thebookseller.com - August 8 at 11:18 AM
	THUNDER BAY PULP AND PAPER ACQUIRES THUNDER BAY MILL FROM RESOLUTE FP CANADA finance.yahoo.com - August 2 at 1:58 AM
	Gill Verso Lite Smock Keeps it Simple msn.com - July 25 at 11:49 PM

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Company Descriptions

American Electric Power

NASDAQ:AEP

American Electric Power Company, Inc., an electric public utility holding company, engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity for sale to retail and wholesale customers in the United States. It operates through Vertically Integrated Utilities, Transmission and Distribution Utilities, AEP Transmission Holdco, and Generation & Marketing segments. The company generates electricity using coal and lignite, natural gas, renewable, nuclear, hydro, solar, wind, and other energy sources. It also supplies and markets electric power at wholesale to other electric utility companies, rural electric cooperatives, municipalities, and other market participants. American Electric Power Company, Inc. was incorporated in 1906 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

Verso

NYSE:VRS

Verso Corporation produces and sells coated papers in North America. It operates through two segments, Paper and Pulp. The company offers coated and uncoated freesheet, coated groundwood, supercalendered, specialty, and packaging papers; and pulp to manufacture printing, writing and specialty paper grades, and tissue and other products. Its paper products are used primarily in media, marketing, commercial printing, catalogs, magazines, high-end advertising brochures, and direct-mail advertising applications, as well as specialty applications, such as labeling and other special applications. The company was formerly known as Verso Paper Corp. and changed its name to Verso Corporation in January 2015. Verso Corporation was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Miamisburg, Ohio.

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