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American Electric Power Co Inc

Its government footprint in one place: federal money, influence and market activity, each row linked to its source. Federal figures gathered Oct 25, 2026.

In plain words

The federal government obligated $5.9M in contracts to American Electric Power Co Inc in the 12 months to Mar 2026, about 0.03% of its revenue over the same months. The most came from Department of Justice. It appears on 55 Senate lobbying filings from 2023 to 2026; 3 of the lobbyists on them once held government posts. In the last 12 months insiders sold 1 time ($250K) and bought 0 times ($0); 1 of the 1 sales whose filing shows the plan box were planned in advance.

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Federal obligations, 12 months
$5.9M
0.03% of revenue (a guide, not a split)
See the money
Contracts ending in 18 months
0
None in our records
See the list
Lobbying filings
55
3 lobbyists held government posts
See who
Insider trades, 12 months
1 sold · 0 bought
1 of 1 sales planned (10b5-1)
See the trades

Government money
ⓘObligations: money an agency has formally committed to pay under a contract. Not the same as money already paid, and not revenue.

SEC revenue and federal obligations

SEC revenue, 12 months to Mar 31, 2026
$22.4B
10-Q, filed May 5, 2026
Federal contract obligations, same 12 months (Apr 2025 to Mar 2026)
$5.9M
Contract obligations vs revenue
0.03%
A guide, not a revenue split. Subcontracts and classified work are not included: see the note below.
Contracts obligated, federal fiscal yearCompany revenue, its fiscal year ending in that year (10-K)
  • FY2026
    Oct 2025 to Sep 2026
    $5.5M · grants -$11K
    $21.9B year to Dec 31, 2025
  • FY2025
    Oct 2024 to Sep 2025
    $5.7M · grants -$25.1M
    $20.0B year to Dec 31, 2024
  • FY2024
    Oct 2023 to Sep 2024
    $7.5M · grants $4.5M
    $19.0B year to Dec 31, 2023
  • FY2023
    Oct 2022 to Sep 2023
    $5.5M · grants $73.5M
    Revenue for this year not on file
  • FY2022
    Oct 2021 to Sep 2022
    $4.4M
    Revenue for this year not on file
What these numbers are

Obligated means an agency committed the money to this company in that period (a signed contract action), as reported to USAspending. It is not a payment and not revenue: a contract can be funded for several years at once, and revenue is booked as the work is done. Some years can exceed revenue for that reason.

Prime contracts only, and only what is published. Work the company does as a subcontractor is not in these figures, and classified contracts are not published on USAspending at all. A low share can mean either. Contract values, ceilings and options are never added in.

Which units count: the USAspending recipient that is the company's SEC registrant; units of the company that USAspending's own records place under it (as parent, or in its family tree); and subsidiaries from the company's SEC Exhibit 21 that carry its name. Joint ventures, units now owned by someone else, and records that only share a name are held back. Both lists are below.

Earlier years count the units the company owns today. A unit we checked by hand (its USAspending parent is out of date) counts from the date the company bought it, or, where no filing gives that date, from the first date a filing shows the company owning it. Other units count for every year shown until their purchase dates are loaded.

Revenue bars are the company's own fiscal year from its 10-K, placed in the federal year it ends in; its fiscal year can end in a different month than the government's.

Fiscal year 2022 onward. Federal fiscal years run October to September; the company's own fiscal year may differ.

Units counted (10), held back (3)

Held back: a matching name we could not tie to this company firmly enough. A miss is better than a wrong link.

  • INDIANA MICHIGAN POWER COMPANY (Exhibit 21 subsidiary, and USAspending lists no parent of ours)
  • MIDWEST TRANSMISSION LLC (an old record with no UEI whose name is not exactly the company's SEC name)
  • AEP TRANSMISSION COMPANY, LLC (an old record with no UEI whose name is not exactly the company's SEC name)

Top agencies, contracts obligated in FY2026

  • Department of Justice$4.0M
  • Department of Labor$994K
  • Department of Defense$565K
  • Department of Health and Human Services$24K

Largest contracts active in the last 12 months

Amount: obligated to date on the contract, all years. Ranked by that amount among contracts with any action in the last 12 months. Counts only consolidated subsidiaries.

Contracts ending in the next 18 months

None in the contracts we hold for this company.

Amount: obligated to date. From the contracts in HillSignal's records tied to this ticker; the full list of contracts ending across government is on Recompetes.

Influence

Revolving door: 3 lobbyists on its filings held government posts

Every post as the lobbyist listed it on the company's Senate LDA filings, one per line.

  • Elizabeth Hornerlast filed 2026 · 2 filings
    Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
    • Chief Counsel, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (2021-2024), Senior Counsel, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee(2018-2021), Counsel, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee(2017-2018)
  • Lauren Hancocklast filed 2026 · 1 filing
    Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
    • Legislative Correspondent, Sen. David Perdue
    • Counsel to the Chief of Staff, Sen. David Perdue
    • Counsel, Sen. David Perdue
  • Anna Karakitsoslast filed 2025 · 1 filing
    Cassidy & Associates, Inc.
    • Professional Staff Member, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

Foreign agents (FARA)
ⓘFARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act): people who work in the US for a foreign government, party or company must register and report what they do and what they are paid.

Lobbying firms working for this company also represent these foreign principals. These are separate engagements: the firm's foreign work is not done for this company.

  • Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP · latest FARA filing, Sep 30, 2026lobbied for this company to 2026

    Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP lobbies the federal government for American Electric Power Co Inc: 11 filings, 2023 to 2026, on taxation/internal revenue code (for example, “Corporate Tax issues, energy and environmental tax issues Workforce development tax related issues P.L. 119-21 (H.R. 1): One Big Beautiful…”). Separately, it is registered as an agent of 8 foreign principals. No amount is stated in its latest six-month FARA report (to Feb 28, 2023).

    Agents registered at this firm, not necessarily assigned to this specific client: Chloe Anne Kenney, John Barton Reising, Marc S. Lampkin, James G. Flood, Robert Bole, Andrew Usyk

  • ArentFox Schiff LLP · latest FARA filing, Sep 23, 2026lobbied for this company to 2026

    ArentFox Schiff LLP lobbies the federal government for American Electric Power Co Inc: 7 filings, 2025 to 2026, on environment/superfund and budget/appropriations (for example, “Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) greenhouse gas regulations under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act EPA regulations of coal combustion…”). Separately, it is registered as an agent of 1 foreign principal. In its latest six-month FARA report (to Oct 31, 2025) it reported $305 received from foreign principals.

    • Republique de Cote d'Ivoire · Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)pay not stated in the agreementfiled Jul 3, 2025

    Agents registered at this firm, not necessarily assigned to this specific client: Kelsey A. Griswold-Berger, Philip English, Gerard Leval, Daniel Sjostedt, Jeri Freirich, Eric Schultz

  • Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP · latest FARA filing, Jun 30, 2026lobbied for this company to 2026

    Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP lobbies the federal government for American Electric Power Co Inc: 2 filings, 2026, on environment/superfund (for example, “Clean Air Act Section 111 standards; coal combustion residuals; effluent limitation guidelines; and New Source Review implementation”). Separately, it is registered as an agent of 1 foreign principal. No amount is stated in its latest six-month FARA report (to Nov 30, 2025).

    • Ministry of Energy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia · Saudi Arabiapay not stated in the agreementfiled Jul 28, 2025

    Agents registered at this firm, not necessarily assigned to this specific client: Inna Pletukhina, George Borovas, James Alan Glasgow, Robert Trask Bohannon

Lobbying

55 filings, 2023 to 2026. Paid lobbying firms $2.1M.

Firms: Arentfox Schiff LLP, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP, Cassidy & Associates, Inc., Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, Mr. Brian Kelly, Odonnell & Son LLC and 2 more

Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Energy/Nuclear, Environment/Superfund, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Utilities

Contacted: House Of Representatives, Senate, Energy, Dept Of, Environmental Protection Agency (Epa), Treasury, Dept Of, Executive Office Of The President (Eop), White House Office, Transportation, Dept Of (Dot)

From the company's Senate LDA filings. Firm fees and in-house spend are reported on different filings, so they are shown apart. Lobbying is legal and common; it shows what the company paid to be heard on, not what it got.

PAC giving

The American Electric Power Committee For Responsible Government
  • Carol Devine Miller House, WV$21K
  • Bruce Westerman House, AR$17K
  • August Lee Pfluger House, TX$10K
  • Julia Letlow House, LA$7K
  • James E Hon Banks House, IN$5K
  • Harold Dallas Rogers House, KY$4K
  • Garret Graves House, LA$4K
  • Diana Harshbarger House, TN$3K

The company's own PAC (linked by the connected organization on its FEC Form 1). Top candidates it gave to, all cycles we hold, from the candidates' own FEC reports; tracked candidates only, so not a complete total.

Market
ⓘA 10b5-1 plan is a trading schedule an insider sets up in advance, so sales under it say less about the insider’s view.

Insider trades

Bought, last 12 months
$0
0 trades
Sold, last 12 months
$250K
1 trade
Sells under a 10b5-1 plan
100%
1 of 1 sells whose filing has the plan box
Largest trade
$250K
Sold by Dixon Kate, Sep 8, 2026

Open-market buys and sells from SEC Form 4 filings; grants and option exercises left out, and trades whose filed price failed our market check. A 10b5-1 plan is a trading schedule set in advance, so those sells say little about the insider's view. The plan box is on filings from April 2023 on.

Members of Congress who traded it

Fund holders with contract wins (13F)
ⓘ13F: a quarterly SEC filing in which large investment managers list the US stocks they hold, filed up to 45 days after the quarter.

None found.

People and connections

Key people

  • Berntsen RobertExecutive Vice President
  • Ferneau Kelly JExecutive Vice President
  • Meyers Charles JDirector
  • Marriott David SDirector
  • Dixon KateController, CAO
  • Fehrman WilliamCEO and President
  • Hall Greg BExecutive Vice President
  • Cannon Douglas APresident AEP Transmission

Connections

Connections to other companies, executives and members of Congress, from disclosed trades, shared officers and public filings, are part of Pro. See Pro

Activity

Every record that names this company by ticker, newest first: awards, bills, executive actions, SEC filings, news, private raises and patents.

Sources and limits

USAspending (prime contracts only; no subcontracts or classified work; defense contracts can arrive up to 90 days after signing), SEC EDGAR, Senate LDA, FEC, House and Senate disclosures, the Federal Register and the White House. Companies are tied to records by exact name, a verified alias or a subsidiary in the company's own Exhibit 21; a miss is better than a wrong link. A shared date is not proof of cause, and nothing here is investment advice.