Aaron's Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:AAN)

5 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Aaron's in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" AAN shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in AAN, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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5 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Aaron's' shares. Their AAN share price targets range from $7.80 to $18.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $13.16 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 44.9% from the stock's current price.
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Aaron's' stock was trading at $11.95 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, AAN shares have decreased by 24.0% and is now trading at $9.08.
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Aaron's saw a decrease in short interest in the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 689,800 shares, a decrease of 23.1% from the October 31st total of 896,900 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 600,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.1 days. Approximately 2.4% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, March 6th 2024.
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The Aaron's Company, Inc. (NYSE:AAN) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, October, 24th. The company reported $0.01 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.06 by $0.05. The firm had revenue of $525.68 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $536.10 million. Aaron's had a net margin of 0.42% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 5.09%. The company's quarterly revenue was down 11.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm earned $0.31 EPS.

Aaron's declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, November 8th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, December 14th will be given a dividend of $0.125 per share on Thursday, January 4th. This represents a $0.50 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 5.51%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, December 13th.
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Aaron's (NYSE:AAN) pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 5.53%. AAN has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The company has been increasing its dividend for 13 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 166.67%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on earnings estimates, AAN will have a dividend payout ratio of 50.51% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Aaron's (NYSE:AAN) stock in their portfolio include Invesco S&P SmallCap 600 Pure Value ETF (RZV) and Syntax Stratified SmallCap ETF (SSLY).Invesco Russell 2000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF (OMFS).

Aaron's updated its FY23 earnings guidance on Monday, October, 23rd. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $1.00-1.20 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $1.24. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.12-2.17 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.18 billion.

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Aaron's' stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (3.01%), Brandywine Global Investment Management LLC (1.56%), Northern Trust Corp (1.35%), Acadian Asset Management LLC (1.34%), New York State Common Retirement Fund (1.16%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.14%). Insiders that own company stock include Douglas A Lindsay, Douglass L Noe, Hubert L Jr Harris, John W Robinson, Kelly Hefner Barrett, Marvonia P Moore, Rachel G George, Robert P Sinclair Jr and Wangdali Bacdayan.
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