American Electric Power Co Earnings Preview For Friday (AEP)
American Electric Power Co (NYSE:AEP) is expected to report last fiscal quarter's results before the opening bell on April 20, 2012. Let's review how American Electric Power Co has performed in recent quarters.
Who They Are:
American Electric Power Company, Inc., a public utility holding company, engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electric power to retail customers. The company was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. American Electric Power Co trades an average of 3.8 million shares per day and has a marketcap of $18.4 Billion.
Book Value: $30.33
Float Short: 0.71%
What To Expect:
Analysts are expecting an improvement of $0.40 in earnings per share compared to last quarter's results of $0.40. A beat of $0.80 per share will top the estimated mean earnings.
Currently, $0.73 on the low end and $0.87 per share on the high side is what market participants are anticipating in the report.
Here is a look at the fiscal year revenue for American Electric Power Co. 
Recent Stock and Valuation Performance:
From a month ago, the stock has decreased in price -1.17%, and moving in price 7.59% from one year ago.
When comparing to the S&P 500, the year to date difference is -16.85%.
For the same fiscal period year-over-year, revenue has declined to $15.12 billion for 2011 vs. $14.43 billion for 2010. The bottom line has rising earnings year-over-year of $1.95 billion for 2011 vs. $1.21 billion for 2010.The company's earnings before interest and taxes are rising with an EBIT year-over-year of $2.78 billion for 2011 vs. $2.66 billion for 2010. Rising revenue along with rising earnings is a very good sign and what we want to see with our companies. Be sure to check the margins in the earnings release to make sure the bottom line is keeping up with the top line.
The short interest is relatively low at 0.71%.
Here are the last few quarters to get an idea how well they perform compared to estimates 
Reported earnings per share compared to the mean estimate. Differences are rounded.
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