NYSE:AANAaron's Stock Price, Forecast & News

Aaron's' stock was trading at $30.14 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, AAN shares have increased by 48.4% and is now trading at $44.73. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Aaron's in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating, 8 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Aaron's.

Aaron's is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, July 23rd 2020. View our earnings forecast for Aaron's.

Aaron's, Inc. (NYSE:AAN) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May, 7th. The company reported $0.85 EPS for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.75 by $0.10. The firm earned $1.10 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1 billion. Aaron's had a positive return on equity of 14.53% and a negative net margin of 7.55%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 8.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $1.08 EPS. View Aaron's' earnings history.

Aaron's declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, May 13th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, June 18th will be given a dividend of $0.04 per share on Tuesday, July 7th. This represents a $0.16 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.36%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, June 17th. View Aaron's' dividend history.

Aaron's issued an update on its second quarter earnings guidance on Monday, June, 8th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $0.80-0.85 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $0.41. The company issued revenue guidance of $975 million to $1 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $894.30 million.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Aaron's' stock. Their forecasts range from $40.00 to $75.00. On average, they expect Aaron's' share price to reach $57.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 27.4% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Aaron's.

Press coverage about AAN stock has been trending somewhat negative recently, according to InfoTrie. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Aaron's earned a media sentiment score of -1.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View the latest news about Aaron's.

Aaron's saw a decrease in short interest in June. As of June 15th, there was short interest totaling 4,050,000 shares, a decrease of 8.0% from the May 31st total of 4,400,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,190,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.4 days. Currently, 6.1% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Aaron's' Current Options Chain.

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Aaron's trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "AAN."

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One share of AAN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $44.73.

Aaron's has a market capitalization of $3.00 billion and generates $3.95 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $31.47 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.89 on an earnings per share basis. Aaron's employs 12,100 workers across the globe.

The official website for Aaron's is www.aarons.com.

Aaron's' mailing address is 400 GALLERIA PARKWAY SE SUITE 300, ATLANTA GA, 30339. The company can be reached via phone at 678-402-3000 or via email at [email protected]