The Most Important Thing for AES Investors to Watch in 2025

With nothing more than a passing glance, the stock looks like a solid buy. Shares are priced at less than 8 times their 12-month earnings, while their forward-looking dividend yield stands at 6.6%. Its revenue and dividend payments have also been firmly -- even if not explosively -- growing for years now, thanks to one of the world's most reliable recent growth drivers. That's the ever-rising need for energy, and in particular, demand driven by the proliferation of power-hungry data centers.And yet, shares of electricity wholesaler AES Corporation (NYSE: AES) continue their erratic bearish trek, reaching a new multiyear low in May of this year to now stand at less than half their late-2022 peak value. Not even recent chatter of an acquisition did much to turn this trend around.What gives? The market's just pricing in the company's biggest risk --  one that may force AES's proverbial hand sooner than later. Indeed, it could start to happen by the end of this year.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool