AES Corporation (AES)

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AES Corporation's filings since 2017 show 3 warning events of 3 kinds: a warning not to rely on past financial statements (8-K item 4.02, the latest 2025-03-11); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2026-07-27); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2025-03-03) (its current reports).

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AES Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $10 billion in fiscal 2016 to $12 billion in fiscal 2025, up 2% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 10% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 6 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, AES Corporation's diluted share count grew about 2.2% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 14% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, AES Corporation earned about 22 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 4 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 92 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.1% over the year (the filed statements).

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AES Corporation's standing among 16 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $12 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 16% by size; a net margin of 7.4% ranks in the top 47%; revenue growth of -1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 34% (its annual reports).

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AES Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Gluski, Andres (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2011-10-04, 15.1 years (top 3% of its family); the 17 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 7.7 years (top 32%); 5 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 17 people in charge now (top 28%; 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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AES Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $1.4 billion against no long-term debt tagged leaves 2.7% of its assets as net cash, top 14% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -13.3% of revenue (bottom 37%); a gross margin of 18.1% (bottom 31%) (its annual report).

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AES Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -1% a year over the last three filed years against 2% over all 10, slowing (top 47% of its family); the newest year grew -0.4% (bottom 9%); capital spending grew 9.2% a year (top 44%) (its annual reports). AES Corporation reported 2 product lines in fiscal 2025: Electricity Generation at $8.2 billion (67%), Electric Distribution at $4.0 billion (33%); 1 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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AES Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $12 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 1% above the $12 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 34% of its family); net income of $910 million against a prior three-year average of $461 million (top 21%); a net margin of 7.4% against 3.8% before (top 22%) (its annual reports).