AES Announces New Cost-Saving Initiative and Increases Backlog; Raising FVE
We are increasing our fair value estimate to $15 per share from $14 after AES reported strong 2018 earnings, initiated a 2019 earnings guidance range above our estimate, and increased and extended their EPS growth target. AES reported 2018 adjusted EPS of $1.24 versus $1.08 in 2017. The adjusted earnings were $0.04 higher than our estimate and beat consensus by $0.03 per share.AES initiated 2019 EPS guidance of $1.28 to $1.40, putting our $1.27 estimate below the guidance range and the consens...
AES is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company operates a portfolio of electricity generation and distribution businesses. The first business line is generation, where the company owns and/or operates power plants to generate and sell power to customers, such as utilities, industrial users, and other intermediaries. The second business line is utilities, where the company owns and/or operates utilities to generate or purchase, distribute, transmit and sell electricity to end-user customers in the residential, commercial, industrial and governmental sectors within a defined service area. In certain circumstances, the company's utilities also generates and sells electricity on the wholesale market.
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