---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000004904-25-000196"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AEP"
cik: "0000004904"
company_name: "AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC"
filed_at: "2025-12-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T14:24:07.076197+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AEP prices $1B junior subordinated debt offering in two tranches due 2056

## Summary
- Issued $400M of 5.800% Fixed-to-Fixed Reset Rate Junior Subordinated Debentures, Series C, due 2056.
- Issued $600M of 6.050% Fixed-to-Fixed Reset Rate Junior Subordinated Debentures, Series D, due 2056.
- Both offerings add to existing series from Sep 25, 2025; each series now has $1.5B outstanding.
- Underwriting syndicate includes Guggenheim, J.P. Morgan, MUFG, PNC, Scotia, Wells Fargo.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000004904-25-000196
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AEP
- cik: 0000004904
- company_name: AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC
- filed_at: 2025-12-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4904/000000490425000196/0000004904-25-000196-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4904/000000490425000196/aep-20251203.htm

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