American Equity Investment Life Stock Forecast, Price & News

American Equity Investment Life's stock was trading at $20.26 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, AEL stock has increased by 50.5% and is now trading at $30.50.
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7 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for American Equity Investment Life in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" American Equity Investment Life stock.
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American Equity Investment Life is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 10th 2021.
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American Equity Investment Life Holding (NYSE:AEL) issued its earnings results on Thursday, October, 29th. The financial services provider reported $0.99 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $1.03 by $0.04. The financial services provider had revenue of $798.70 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $611.44 million. American Equity Investment Life's revenue for the quarter was up 24.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $2.54 earnings per share.
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American Equity Investment Life announced an annual dividend on Tuesday, November 17th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, November 25th will be given a dividend of $0.32 per share on Thursday, December 10th. This represents a dividend yield of 1.2%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, November 24th. This is a boost from American Equity Investment Life's previous annual dividend of $0.30.
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American Equity Investment Life pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.07%. The dividend payout ratio of American Equity Investment Life is 5.36%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, American Equity Investment Life will have a dividend payout ratio of 7.37% next year. This indicates that American Equity Investment Life will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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7 brokerages have issued 12-month price objectives for American Equity Investment Life's stock. Their forecasts range from $26.00 to $36.00. On average, they anticipate American Equity Investment Life's stock price to reach $31.63 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 3.7% from the stock's current price.
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American Equity Investment Life saw a increase in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totaling 3,380,000 shares, an increase of 64.1% from the December 15th total of 2,060,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,430,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.4 days. Currently, 4.2% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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Some companies that are related to American Equity Investment Life include MetLife (MET), Prudential Financial (PRU), Aflac (AFL), Lincoln National (LNC), Primerica (PRI), Unum Group (UNM), CNO Financial Group (CNO), FBL Financial Group (FFG), National Western Life Group (NWLI), Independence (IHC), Kansas City Life Insurance (KCLI) and Citizens (CIA).
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American Equity Investment Life trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "AEL."

American Equity Investment Life's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.08%), Crossmark Global Holdings Inc. (0.01%) and First Hawaiian Bank (0.01%). Company insiders that own American Equity Investment Life stock include Alonzo A J J Strickland, Anant Bhalla, David S Mulcahy, Debra J Richardson, Jeffrey D Lorenzen, John M Matovina, Joyce Ann Chapman and Ted Morris Johnson.
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AEL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of Alaska Department of Revenue, First Hawaiian Bank, and Crossmark Global Holdings Inc.. Company insiders that have sold American Equity Investment Life company stock in the last year include Debra J Richardson, and Joyce Ann Chapman.
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Shares of AEL can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of AEL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $30.50.

American Equity Investment Life has a market capitalization of $2.81 billion and generates $3.46 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $246.09 million in net income (profit) each year or $5.97 on an earnings per share basis. American Equity Investment Life employs 608 workers across the globe.

The official website for American Equity Investment Life is www.american-equity.com.

American Equity Investment Life's mailing address is 6000 Westown Parkway, West Des Moines IA, 50266. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 515-221-0002 or via email at [email protected]