NYSE:AAN - Aaron's Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Aaron's declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, November 5th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, December 19th will be given a dividend of $0.04 per share on Monday, January 6th. This represents a $0.16 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.35%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, December 18th. This is a boost from Aaron's's previous quarterly dividend of $0.04. View Aaron's' Dividend History.

Aaron's, Inc. (NYSE:AAN) released its quarterly earnings results on Monday, November, 4th. The company reported $0.73 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.82 by $0.09. The company earned $963.80 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $975.20 million. Aaron's had a return on equity of 14.21% and a net margin of 5.09%. The business's revenue was up 1.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $0.69 EPS. View Aaron's' Earnings History.

Aaron's is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 20th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Aaron's.

Aaron's issued an update on its FY20 earnings guidance on Thursday, February, 20th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $3.80-4.00 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $4.52. The company issued revenue guidance of $4.15-4.30 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $4.49 billion.

6 brokers have issued 1-year price targets for Aaron's' shares. Their forecasts range from $72.00 to $90.00. On average, they anticipate Aaron's' share price to reach $80.83 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 79.1% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Aaron's.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Aaron's in the last year. There are currently 5 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Aaron's.

Press coverage about AAN stock has been trending extremely negative on Thursday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Aaron's earned a news impact score of -4.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Aaron's.

Aaron's saw a drop in short interest during the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 3,670,000 shares, a drop of 8.3% from the December 31st total of 4,000,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 827,800 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 4.4 days. Approximately 5.5% of the company's shares are sold short. View Aaron's' Current Options Chain.

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Aaron's' stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (3.72%), Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (2.95%), FMR LLC (2.79%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (1.61%), Vaughan Nelson Investment Management L.P. (1.33%) and LSV Asset Management (1.28%). Company insiders that own Aaron's stock include Curtis Linn Doman, Douglas A Lindsay, John W Robinson, Kelly Hefner Barrett, Ray M Robinson, Robert H Yanker, Robert P Sinclair Jr, Robert W Kamerschen, Ryan K Woodley and Steven A Michaels. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Aaron's.

AAN stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Loomis Sayles & Co. L P, LSV Asset Management, Vaughan Nelson Investment Management L.P., Mackay Shields LLC and Hancock Whitney Corp. Company insiders that have sold Aaron's company stock in the last year include Curtis Linn Doman, Douglas A Lindsay, John W Robinson, Ray M Robinson, Robert P Sinclair Jr, Robert W Kamerschen, Ryan K Woodley and Steven A Michaels. View Insider Buying and Selling for Aaron's.

AAN stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Victory Capital Management Inc., Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL, Victory Capital Management Inc., Copeland Capital Management LLC, Capital Advisors Inc. OK, Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., Redwood Investments LLC and Bank of America Corp DE. View Insider Buying and Selling for Aaron's.

Shares of AAN can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of AAN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $45.13.

Aaron's has a market capitalization of $3.03 billion and generates $3.83 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $196.21 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.36 on an earnings per share basis. Aaron's employs 11,800 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Aaron's.

The official website for Aaron's is http://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]