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AEO Short Interest

American Eagle Outfitters, Inc.
1W: +9.2% 1M: +13.1% 3M: +11.6% YTD: -24.3% 1Y: +20.4% 3Y: +21.8% 5Y: -11.4%
$19.42
+0.61 (+3.24%)
 
Weekly Expected Move ±4.7%
$16 $17 $18 $19 $20
NYSE · Consumer Cyclical · Apparel - Retail · Tech Score Buy · Power 69 · $3.3B mcap · 156M float · 3.41% daily turnover · Short 41% of daily vol
Credit Risk of going bust: lower than 78% of companies Debt: 37.1% of company value Bonds: none of note held by US funds details ▾
Of US companies ranked in the safest four tenths, about 1 in 3,500 filed for bankruptcy within a year (2020-2025).
If the stock fell to about $0.04 (down 99.8%), American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. would be worth roughly what it owes.
Total debt $1.92B against a stock market value of $3.25B.
Distance to default 9.08 (Merton model): prices to 2026-10-27, balance sheet 2026-08-01, debt counted $27.5M (short-term plus half of long-term), stock volatility 52.1%; Altman Z'' 4.30. A ranking and a back-test, not a forecast.
US fund filings (SEC N-PORT) show under $25M of this company's bonds, so there is no bond page. Its debt may be bank loans or privately placed. How these are computed.

Short Volume Summary

2026-10-26
36.1%
Short Ratio
of total volume
44.2%
20-Day Avg
47.6%
50-Day Avg
▼ Falling
5-Day Trend
0.6M
Short Volume
1.7M
Total Volume

Daily Short Volume Ratio

Short Volume vs Total Volume

Exchange Breakdown

2026-10-26
ExchangeShort VolumeTotal VolumeShort %
NASDAQ 586,471 1,616,307 36.3%
NYSE 16,997 53,637 31.7%
BATS 2,003 6,367 31.5%

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