AES AES reported a 20% drop in its second-quarter profit.
AES posted its quarterly profit at $140 million, or $0.18 per share, versus a year-earlier profit of $174 million, or $0.22 per share. Its earnings from continuing operations fell to $0.09 per share from $0.24 per share.
Its revenue dropped 5.5% to $4.19 billion. However, analysts were expecting earnings of $0.27 per share on revenue of $4.69 billion.
Gross margin declined to 16.5% from 22.4%
AES' revenue from the Latin American utilities business dropped 26%.
AES shares gained 1.16% to close at $12.25 on Friday.
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