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The AES Corporation (AES) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for AES, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 62/100 · S&P 500 fund at 67, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-25
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +8.4% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-25
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.61 · up 0.29 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-25
How it trades on rate days beta 0.29 to TLT · on the worst bond days it held up better than the market

How it trades on rate days

How AES has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.29 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), The AES Corporation moved 0.29% on average · correlation 0.08 · higher than 28% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months −0.04 less rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −0.34% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days +0.27% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Utilities - Diversified · 7 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Utilities - Diversified

This name carries no Closelooknet score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against AES on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — The AES Corporation

AES in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
AES generates and distributes electricity through four business lines: renewables, regulated utilities, energy infrastructure and newer energy technologies. It builds and runs power plants that sell electricity to utilities, industrial customers and other buyers, and it also operates utilities that deliver power directly to homes, businesses and government users. The company draws on a mix of fuels and technologies, including solar, wind, hydro, gas, coal and battery storage, and sells surplus power into wholesale markets. It operates across several countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia. AES is based in Arlington, Virginia, and was previously called Applied Energy Services.
Where it sits in the stack
AES carries no seat in Closelooknet's index, so it sits in the diary's utilities and power-generation sleeve rather than inside the AI build-out stack itself. Its link to the build-out is indirect: data centres and chip plants need grid capacity and long-term power contracts, and AES is one of the diversified generators able to supply that demand.
Who it is priced against
Vendor material gives no peer group for AES; a name the market often mentions alongside it is NextEra Energy, another US power generator with a large renewables arm.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
AES sits in the S&P 500 but holds no seat in Closelooknet's own index, carries no Closelooknet score, and has not yet appeared in the diary's editions or quotes.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether AES signs more long-term power agreements with data-centre or chip-fabrication customers, since that would tie its generation growth directly to the AI build-out.

The AES Corporation (AES) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 4.73%, quarterly · last 0.18 USD on 2026-07-31

Dividends and capital return

What AES pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 0.70 USD per share · a 4.73% yield on the 2026-09-25 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-25
  • Change on the year +0.4% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.70 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.18 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-07-31
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.17 USD (partial) · 2024: 0.69 USD · 2025: 0.70 USD · 2026: 0.53 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-10-31

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-26

Quick answers

What is The AES Corporation (AES)?

The AES Corporation trades as AES on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-26.

Is AES in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — The AES Corporation is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-09-26.

Where does AES trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +0.8% vs the 50-day and +2.3% vs the 200-day average, 14.7% below the 52-week high and +18.9% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-25 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does The AES Corporation trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year The AES Corporation had a beta of 0.29 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 28% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −0.34% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

What does The AES Corporation do?

AES generates and distributes electricity through four business lines: renewables, regulated utilities, energy infrastructure and newer energy technologies. It builds and runs power plants that sell electricity to utilities, industrial customers and other buyers, and it also operates utilities that deliver power directly to homes, businesses and government users. The company draws on a mix of fuels and technologies, including solar, wind, hydro, gas, coal and battery storage, and sells surplus power into wholesale markets. Vendor material gives no peer group for AES; a name the market often mentions alongside it is NextEra Energy, another US power generator with a large renewables arm.

Where does The AES Corporation sit in the AI build-out?

AES carries no seat in Closelooknet's index, so it sits in the diary's utilities and power-generation sleeve rather than inside the AI build-out stack itself. Its link to the build-out is indirect: data centres and chip plants need grid capacity and long-term power contracts, and AES is one of the diversified generators able to supply that demand. AES sits in the S&P 500 but holds no seat in Closelooknet's own index, carries no Closelooknet score, and has not yet appeared in the diary's editions or quotes.

Does The AES Corporation pay a dividend?

The AES Corporation has paid 0.70 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 4.73% on the 2026-09-25 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.18 USD on 2026-07-31. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for AES, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

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