AEPAmerican Electric Power
Is the business good?
A genuinely good business: earnings fully cash-backed (1.6×) and margins widening.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash.
Negative operating leverage, costs are rising faster than sales, squeezing margins as it grows.
A balanced mix of margins, efficiency, and leverage. ROE 12% = margin × turnover × leverage.
Unless marked, from derived.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is AEP?
American Electric Power earns 4.9% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 4.1 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 23%
Operating margin · Utilities - Regulated Electric median 22% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.63×
Cash conversion · 1.62× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- +2.6%
Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 20% |
| FY2021 | 20% |
| FY2022 | 18% |
| FY2023 | 19% |
| FY2024 | 22% |
| FY2025 | 24% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 68%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 23%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 14%
- Free cash flow margin
- 19%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $22.8B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $4.29B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $3.26B
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 4.9%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Utilities, Regulated Electric
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