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AES vs ETR

Side-by-side comparison of The AES Corporation (AES) and Entergy Corporation (ETR): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both AES and ETR operate in Electric Utilities: Central (Utilities), so they compete in similar markets.
  • ETR is the larger of the two at $50.71B, about 4.8x AES ($10.46B).
  • Over the past year, AES is up 35.3% and ETR is up 30.9% - AES leads by 4.4 points.
  • ETR has hit the wire 14 times in the past 4 weeks while AES has been quiet.
  • Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
PerformanceAES+35.28%ETR+30.88%
2025-06-09+0.00%2026-06-08
MetricAESETR
Company
The AES Corporation
Entergy Corporation
Price
$14.71+0.17%
$108.34-2.18%
Market cap
$10.46B
$50.71B
1M return
+2.98%
-3.25%
1Y return
+35.28%
+30.88%
Industry
Electric Utilities: Central
Electric Utilities: Central
Exchange
NYSE
NYSE
IPO
News (4w)
0
14
Recent ratings
25
25
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. It uses a range of fuels and technologies to generate electricity, including natural gas, coal, pet coke, diesel, and oil, as well as renewables, such as hydro, solar, wind, energy storage, biomass, and landfill gas. The company owns and/or operates a generation portfolio of approximately 30,308 megawatts. It has operations in the United States, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia. The company was formerly known as Applied Energy Services, Inc. and changed its name to The AES Corporation in April 2000. The AES Corporation was incorporated in 1981 and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

ETR

Entergy Corporation

Entergy Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the production and distribution of electricity in the United States. The company generates electricity through gas/oil, nuclear, coal, hydro, and solar power sources. It operates in two segments, Utility and Entergy Wholesale Commodities. The company's Utility segment generates, transmits, distributes, and sells electric power in portions of Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, and Louisiana, including the City of New Orleans; and distributes natural gas. Its Entergy Wholesale Commodities segment engages in the ownership, operation, and decommissioning of nuclear power plants located in the northern United States; sale of electric power to wholesale customers; provision of services to other nuclear power plant owners; and owning interests in non-nuclear power plants that sell electric power to wholesale customers. It sells energy to retail power providers, utilities, electric power co-operatives, power trading organizations, and other power generation companies. The company's power plants have approximately 30,000 megawatts (MW) of electric generating capacity, which include 8,000 MW of nuclear power. The company delivers electricity to 3.0 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. Entergy Corporation was incorporated in 1949 and is based in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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