American Eagle Outfitters (AEO)

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American Eagle Outfitters' filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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American Eagle Outfitters' 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $3.6 billion in fiscal 2017 to $5.5 billion in fiscal 2026, up 4.9% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 13% from fiscal 2020 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-01-31, American Eagle Outfitters' diluted share count shrank about 5.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 35% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 17 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-30 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-01-31, American Eagle Outfitters earned about 11 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 51 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 58 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 10.3% over the year (the filed statements).

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American Eagle Outfitters' standing among 10 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $5.5 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 45% by size; a net margin of 3.5% ranks in the bottom 35%; revenue growth of 3.6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 45% (its annual reports).

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American Eagle Outfitters' leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Schottenstein, Jay L (Exec Chairman & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2014-03-07, 12.7 years (top 31% of its family); the 13 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 9.1 years (top 25%); 4 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 13 people in charge now (top 35%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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American Eagle Outfitters' room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $239 million against debt of $0 thousand leaves 6% of its assets as net cash, bottom 25% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 3.5% of revenue (bottom 35%); a gross margin of 36.5% (top 50%) (its annual report).

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American Eagle Outfitters' growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew 3.6% a year over the last three filed years against 4.9% over all 10, slowing (bottom 45% of its family); the newest year grew 4.1% (bottom 45%); capital spending grew 0.1% a year (bottom 35%) (its annual reports). American Eagle Outfitters reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2026: American Eagle Brand at $3.4 billion, Aerie Brand at $1.9 billion. 2 of 2 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 64% of revenue (its annual report).

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American Eagle Outfitters' newest year against its own record: revenue of $5.5 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 0.8% above the $5.5 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 35% of its family); net income of $192 million against a prior three-year average of $208 million (bottom 25%); a net margin of 3.5% against 4% before (bottom 35%) (its annual reports).