American Electric Power Company, Inc.

American Electric Power Company, Inc. is an electric utility company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Its roots go back to the American Gas and Electric Company, founded in 1906. Its shares trade on Nasdaq under the ticker AEP, and the company is a member of the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 indices.

The group operates through subsidiaries that supply electricity to customers in the central, southern and eastern parts of the country. These include AEP Ohio, Appalachian Power, Indiana Michigan Power, Public Service Company of Oklahoma and AEP Texas. The company's high-voltage transmission lines are an important part of a grid spread across a wide area of the United States, and the transmission business is run by a separate subsidiary. The generation portfolio is made up of natural gas, coal, nuclear, wind and solar sources.

When following American Electric Power stock, rate decisions by state regulators, transmission line investments and electricity demand from data centers are taken into account. On the AEP page at Lzzo.com the price is shown in US dollars, and a price chart and technical indicators appear on the same page.