AES - The AES Corporation
The AES Corporation operates as a diversified power generation and utility company. It owns and/or operates power plants to generate and sell power to customers, such as utilities, industrial users, and other intermediaries. The company also 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; and generates and sells electricity on the wholesale market.
As of May 15, 2026: spot at $14.48, ATM IV 7.7%, max pain $15.00, net GEX $2.1M.
- Sector
- Utilities
- Industry
- Diversified Utilities
- Market Cap
- $10.29B
- P/E Ratio
- 7.71
- Beta
- 0.96
- 52-Week Range
- 9.46-17.65
- Dividend Yield
- $0.70
- CEO
- Andres Ricardo Gluski Weilert
- Employees
- 9,100
- IPO Date
- Jun 26, 1991
- Exchange
- NYSE
What AES Looks Like to Options Traders Today
IV rank of 0.9% is subdued relative to the 1-year history, conditions that typically favor premium-buying or long-volatility structures (debit spreads, calendar spreads, long straddles); positive net gamma exposure ($2.1M) means dealers hedge against trend, damping realized volatility and biasing price toward heavy-OI strikes; the 25-delta skew (-0.009) is roughly flat across the wings.
What This Page Covers
The AES overview links into per-metric analysis views: max pain, gamma exposure, volatility skew, expected move, options chain, open interest history, and aggregate Greeks. Microstructure data is available on short interest, short volume, fail-to-deliver, and market structure. Corporate data is on fundamentals, earnings, analyst ratings, and insider trading.
Frequently asked AES overview questions
- What is AES?
- AES is the ticker symbol for The AES Corporation, a listed security. The AES Corporation operates as a diversified power generation and utility company. It owns and/or operates power plants to generate and sell power to customers, such as utilities, industrial users, and other intermediaries. Listed on NYSE. AES is the equity ticker shown on this page; equity options traders use the security for directional, volatility, and income strategies via the listed options chain.
- What does the AES options snapshot look like today?
- As of May 15, 2026, the AES options snapshot shows spot at $14.48, ATM IV 7.7%, IV rank 0.9%, max pain $15.00, net GEX $2.1M, expected move 2.21%. The full options chain, Greeks by strike and expiration, per-strike open-interest distribution, dealer gamma and delta exposure, and the volatility skew surface are linked from this overview page. Each per-metric route refreshes once per trading session and reflects the most recent close-of-business listed-options state.
- What are AES's key statistics?
- The AES Corporation (AES) carries a market capitalization of $10.29B, trailing P/E ratio of 7.71, beta of 0.96 relative to the broader market, 52-week range of 9.46-17.65. Full income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, and TTM ratio history is on the per-ticker fundamentals page; daily price history and 52-week levels are accessible from the same view. These structural inputs frame how the options market prices implied volatility around earnings windows and capital events.
- What sector or industry does AES belong to?
- The AES Corporation operates in the Utilities sector, in the Diversified Utilities industry. Sector classification affects how the ticker correlates with sector ETFs, how it reacts to macro factors like rate moves and commodity prices, and how its options pricing compares to sector peers. Compare AES's implied volatility and skew against sector benchmarks to gauge whether the options market is pricing single-name or systemic risk relative to the broader peer group.
- How current is the AES data on this page?
- The options snapshot above is dated May 15, 2026 and refreshes once per session, with all per-strike Greeks and exposure aggregates recomputed at the daily close. Company-profile fields (sector, industry, market cap, P/E, IPO date) refresh from the vendor feed nightly. Financials and earnings refresh as 10-K and 10-Q filings are parsed (typically within several business days of the actual report). FINRA microstructure data refreshes on the source's cadence (daily for short volume, bi-monthly for short interest, weekly for the OTC volume file, twice-monthly for SEC FTD).