The AES Corporation

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The AES Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $12.2 billion, roughly unchanged from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 19.9%, EPS grew 500.0%, free cash flow fell 67.7% and total debt rose 6.10%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500; dividend growth for ten consecutive years.

14.95 0.02 −0.13%
Market cap
$10.7B
P/E
5.7×
Fwd P/E
7.3×
Dividend yield
4.71%
F-score
4/9
Altman Z
0.36
Beneish M
−2.80
Dividend safety
16/100

The AES Corporation (AES) Piotroski F-score

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The AES Corporation's Piotroski F-score for fiscal 2025 is 4 out of 9: 4 of nine tests of profitability, leverage and efficiency passed, down from 5 in fiscal 2024.

Piotroski F-score, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Piotroski F-score Change (points)
FY2025 4 (1.00)
FY2024 5 0.00
FY2023 5 1.00
FY2022 4 (1.00)
FY2021 5 0.00
FY2020 5 2.00
FY2019 3 (4.00)
FY2018 7 2.00
FY2017 5 1.00
FY2016 4 —

How fiscal 2025’s score is made up

Test This year Year before Result Points
Positive return on assets 1.81% 3.64% Pass 1
Positive operating cash flow 4.31b 2.75b Pass 1
Rising return on assets 1.81% 3.64% Fail 0
Cash flow above net income 3.41b 1.07b Pass 1
Falling long-term leverage 0.54 0.55 Pass 1
Rising current ratio 0.77 0.80 Fail 0
No new shares issued 712,000,000 706,000,000 Fail 0
Rising gross margin 18.07% 18.85% Fail 0
Rising asset turnover 0.25 0.27 Fail 0
Piotroski F-score Mixed 4

How the Piotroski F-score works

One point for each of nine tests, this fiscal year against the one before: positive return on assets, positive operating cash flow, rising return on assets, cash flow above net income, falling long-term leverage, a rising current ratio, no new shares issued, a rising gross margin and rising asset turnover. The ratios are the ones on this site, so each can be checked.

Joseph Piotroski (2000) called 8–9 high and 0–1 low; reading it in three bands is the common convention:

7–9Strong — most fundamentals improved
4–6Mixed
0–3Weak — most fundamentals deteriorated

Where this differs from the paper: return on assets is on average rather than beginning-of-year assets, and weighted basic shares stand in for shares issued. The score is shown only when all nine tests can be worked out, which takes three fiscal years; banks and insurers, which report no current assets or gross profit, have none.

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What Piotroski F-score is

The Piotroski F-Score tells an investor how many signs of improving profitability, funding and efficiency a company shows against a year earlier.

One point for each of nine tests against a year earlier: positive return on assets, positive operating cash flow, rising return on assets, cash flow above net income, falling long-term leverage, rising current ratio, no new shares issued, rising gross margin, and rising asset turnover

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