American Electric Power key statistics and ratios

In fiscal 2025, American Electric Power had return on equity of 12.3%, an operating margin of 24.3%, debt equal to 156.8% of equity and a current ratio of 0.45. Each ratio below is calculated from the figures on its income statement, balance sheet and cash flow pages.

Financial ratios

US$ thousands unless shown otherwise. Fiscal years, plus the last twelve months (LTM) when newer.

American Electric Power: financial ratios, annual
Fiscal year	2009Dec 2009	2010Dec 2010	2011Dec 2011	2012Dec 2012	2013Dec 2013	2014Dec 2014	2015Dec 2015	2016Dec 2016	2017Dec 2017	2018Dec 2018	2019Dec 2019	2020Dec 2020	2021Dec 2021	2022Dec 2022	2023Dec 2023	2024Dec 2024	2025Dec 2025	LTMJun 2026
Operating margin	20.5%	18.5%	18.4%	17.8%	19.1%	19.1%	20.3%	7.1%	22.9%	16.6%	16.7%	20.0%	20.3%	17.7%	18.7%	21.8%	24.3%	23.0%
Net margin	10.1%	8.4%	12.9%	8.4%	10.0%	10.0%	12.4%	3.7%	12.4%	11.9%	12.3%	14.7%	14.8%	11.7%	11.6%	15.0%	16.4%	13.8%
Free-cash-flow margin	17.6%	17.4%	24.9%	24.8%	27.4%	27.7%	28.8%	26.9%	27.7%	32.3%	21.5%	25.7%	—	—	25.6%	32.5%	16.0%	18.8%
Return on equity	10.4%	9.1%	13.8%	8.4%	9.5%	9.9%	11.8%	3.5%	10.7%	10.3%	9.9%	11.0%	11.6%	10.0%	9.0%	11.4%	12.3%	9.9%
Return on assets	2.8%	2.5%	3.8%	2.4%	2.7%	2.8%	3.4%	1.0%	3.0%	2.9%	2.7%	2.8%	3.0%	2.5%	2.3%	3.0%	3.3%	2.7%
Asset turnover	0.28	0.29	0.29	0.28	0.27	0.28	0.27	0.26	0.24	0.24	0.22	0.19	0.20	0.22	0.20	0.20	0.20	0.19
Current ratio	0.89	0.77	0.63	0.67	0.71	0.56	0.57	0.64	0.51	0.48	0.40	0.44	0.63	0.51	0.53	0.45	0.45	0.50
Debt to equity	134.1%	133.3%	123.9%	123.0%	119.0%	118.1%	113.9%	126.3%	124.7%	132.7%	150.6%	163.3%	160.8%	171.2%	170.2%	167.6%	156.8%	164.7%
Interest cover (operating income ÷ interest)	2.8x	2.7x	3.0x	2.7x	3.2x	3.6x	3.8x	1.3x	3.9x	2.7x	2.4x	2.6x	2.8x	2.5x	2.0x	2.3x	2.6x	2.4x
Effective tax rate	29.6%	34.6%	34.2%	32.4%	31.5%	36.2%	34.2%	−13.5%	33.5%	5.6%	−0.7%	1.8%	4.4%	0.2%	2.4%	−1.3%	3.4%	9.7%
Capital spending as % of revenue	0.8%	1.1%	0.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	5.9%	0.0%	—	—	0.8%	2.0%	15.8%	15.0%
Free cash flow ÷ net income	174.3%	206.5%	193.7%	294.7%	274.6%	277.7%	231.7%	722.5%	223.3%	271.5%	174.5%	174.2%	—	—	220.0%	215.9%	97.5%	136.4%
Dividends ÷ net income	55.7%	67.9%	46.1%	72.8%	64.5%	61.1%	51.7%	183.5%	62.3%	65.3%	70.3%	64.8%	−61.1%	71.3%	79.3%	64.0%	56.1%	65.2%
Dividends and buybacks ÷ free cash flow	32.0%	32.9%	23.8%	24.7%	23.5%	22.0%	22.3%	25.4%	27.9%	24.0%	40.3%	37.2%	—	—	36.1%	29.6%	57.5%	47.8%

US$ thousands unless shown otherwise. Fiscal quarters.

American Electric Power: financial ratios, quarterly
Quarter	2024 Q3Sept 2024	2024 Q4Dec 2024	2025 Q1Mar 2025	2025 Q2Jun 2025	2025 Q3Sept 2025	2025 Q4Dec 2025	2026 Q1Mar 2026	2026 Q2Jun 2026
Operating margin	24.9%	23.3%	23.5%	27.5%	25.3%	21.0%	22.6%	22.9%
Net margin	17.7%	14.0%	14.6%	24.1%	16.2%	10.9%	14.5%	13.1%
Free-cash-flow margin	40.1%	28.3%	26.5%	−2.7%	36.0%	0.3%	9.2%	28.5%
Current ratio	0.57	0.45	0.42	0.55	0.69	0.45	0.53	0.50
Debt to equity	157.7%	158.3%	157.4%	149.1%	151.8%	152.0%	155.8%	158.4%

Returns use average equity or assets over the year. Return on equity is left blank when equity is negative or so small that the ratio says nothing (above ±200%); interest cover is left blank above 200 times. Price-based ratios such as P/E are on the valuation page.

Financial health

0 of 7 checks passed · June 30, 2026

What it owns · $121.6bn

Short-term assets $7.1bnLonger-term assets $114.4bn

What it owes, and who funded it · $120.3bn

Short-term liabilities $14.2bnLonger-term liabilities $74.1bnShareholders' equity $32.1bn

Short-term assets cover short-term liabilities $7.1bn of assets due within a year against $14.2bn of liabilities due within a year.
Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities $7.1bn short-term assets against $74.1bn of longer-dated liabilities.
More cash than debt $375m of cash against $50.8bn of debt.
Debt below 40% of shareholders' equity Debt is 158% of equity.
Debt burden no higher than five years ago Debt to equity moved from 140% to 158% over five years.
A year's operating cash flow covers at least 20% of debt $7.7bn of operating cash flow against $50.8bn of debt.
Operating profit covers interest at least five times over Operating income of $5.2bn against $2.2bn of interest.

From American Electric Power's latest balance sheet as filed. Checks are fixed, documented rules (methodology), counted only where the company reports the figures — a dot means the filing doesn't break the item out. Descriptions of reported data, not advice.

Moat

52 /100

Moderate moat

How hard American Electric Power's competitive advantage looks for rivals to wear away, judged from 10 years of its own filings: returns on capital, pricing power, profit durability, cash conversion and discipline.

Returns on capital 1 / 20

Net income has been a median 2.7% of total assets over 10 years.
Durability 12 / 20

Operating margin has been a median 19.7%; its worst year was 7.9%.
Cash conversion 20 / 20

Free cash flow was positive in 8 of 8 years, at a median 24.6% of revenue.
Discipline 9 / 20

The diluted share count rose 9.1% over five years.

AI disruption exposure: Low. In this industry, the business rests on physical assets, regulated networks or products AI itself depends on.

A rules-based reading of reported figures, not a forecast and not investment advice. How the score is built: methodology.

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Figures from American Electric Power's SEC filings (10-K and 10-Q), retrieved October 29, 2026. How we read and check them: methodology and data sources. Not investment advice. Back to American Electric Power.