American Eagle Outfitters, Inc.: basic earnings per share

At a glance

American Eagle Outfitters reported basic earnings per share of $1.12 per share for the year ending 2026-01-31, down 34.5% from $1.71 per share a year earlier. Across the last five reported years it ranged from $0.69 per share (2023-01-28) to $2.50 per share (2022-01-29).

Computed from the values in the table below, in USD/shares; each links to the filing it came from.

What this measure means

Reported earnings or loss per basic common share or unit. Inspect attribution, share classes and restatements before comparing periods. This is not a market return.

Exact concept: us-gaap:EarningsPerShareBasic. Each value covers an annual-duration reporting interval, shown with both start and end dates. Different units remain separate; no currency conversion or interpolation is applied.

Coverage of this history

Selected reporting periods run from 2008-02-03 to 2026-01-31. The SEC response was captured on 2026-09-20.

Selected filing history

Related American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. histories

• Diluted earnings per share
• Diluted weighted-average shares
• Basic weighted-average shares
• Common shares outstanding
• Total assets
• Stockholders equity
• Contract revenue excluding tax
• Operating cash flow

All 55 American Eagle Outfitters histories

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Entity

American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. / CIK 0000919012

Captured

2026-09-20 05:07 UTC

SEC response SHA-256

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Latest-filed annual-report facts per unit and reporting period at capture time. Duration facts cover 300 to 400 days. This selection can include restatements and is not a point-in-time backtest dataset. Missing concepts are omitted, never zero-filled. Values retain original units and are not currency converted. Extended concepts require compatible unit shapes and at least three reporting ends with changing values within one unit. Constant or incompatible added histories are omitted.

Public company accounting reference, not market prices, returns, an investment recommendation, or ALPHAC performance. Validate a separately constructed return series with the validation API; accounting values are not returns.

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import json
from urllib.request import urlopen

with urlopen("https://canlicapital.com/company-data/0000919012.json") as response:
    record = json.load(response)
print(record["fetched_at"])
print(record["policy"])
for concept in record["concepts"]:
    print(concept["tag"], next(iter(concept["observations"])))