AEPAmerican Electric Power
Is it safe?
Solid, nothing alarming. Balance sheet to watch.
Mixed, watch the balance sheet Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Insiders were net sellers (-$250K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Relatively steady, low volatility. Worst drawdown -33% · now 10% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Dec 31, 2025.
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. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can AEP take a bad year?
The deepest fall in AEP's price history on file is −33%; it is 9.8% below its high today.
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · debt less the cash on hand
- Altman Z-score
- 0.99
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Interest cover
- 2.59×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
- Annualised volatility
- 19%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $51.1B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $516M
- Net debt
- $50.6B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $5.39B
- Debt / equity
- 1.61×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 19%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −33%
- Below its 52-week high
- 9.8%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Utilities, Regulated Electric
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