ALLIANCE ENTERTAINMENT HOLDING CORP (AENT)
Consumer Discretionary · Entertainment and media wholesaling/distribution · NASDAQ
Alliance Entertainment is a leading wholesale distributor and supply chain partner for physical entertainment products, consumer electronics, and toys.
What ALLIANCE ENTERTAINMENT HOLDING CORP does
Alliance Entertainment Holding Corporation is a wholesaler and distributor of entertainment products, including physical media (music, movies, games) and merchandise. The company operates a distribution and fulfillment network serving retail partners across multiple channels. It generates revenue through the sale and distribution of entertainment content and related products to retailers and end consumers. The company maintains inventory operations and provides logistics services supporting the entertainment retail ecosystem.
Themes: entertainment distribution, wholesale retail, media distribution, merchandise logistics
Fundamentals
- Price$5.62 as of 2026-08-26 close
- Market cap$286M as of 2026-08-26
- 1-year return+2.9% 2025-08-26 close $5.46 → 2026-08-26 close $5.62
- P/E12.57 as of 2026-08-27
- Net margin+2.0% as of 2026-08-27
- Gross margin+13.8% as of 2026-08-27
- ROE+19.9% as of 2026-08-27
- Debt / equity0.56 as of 2026-08-27
- Revenue growth (YoY)+3.4% as of 2026-08-27
- Revenue CAGR (3y)-9.1% SEC XBRL
- Beta0.40 as of 2026-08-27
- Last reported earnings2026-05-14 SEC EDGAR Form 8-K (Item 2.02)
How AENT compares in its sector
- price-to-earnings ratiobottom 25% 262 covered Consumer Discretionary peers, as of 2026-08-27
- net profit marginmiddle range 334 covered Consumer Discretionary peers, as of 2026-08-27
- operating marginmiddle range 334 covered Consumer Discretionary peers, as of 2026-08-27
- gross marginbottom 10% 331 covered Consumer Discretionary peers, as of 2026-08-27
- return on equitymiddle range 334 covered Consumer Discretionary peers, as of 2026-08-27
- 3-year revenue CAGRbottom 10% 325 covered Consumer Discretionary peers
- free cash flow (absolute dollars, latest fiscal year)middle range 311 covered Consumer Discretionary peers, as of FY2025
Position among covered Consumer Discretionary companies that report each metric (minimum 5 peers). A relative position within our covered catalog — not a valuation, quality, or investment judgment. A higher percentile is simply a higher value (for P/E, more expensive on earnings — never "better"). Informational only.
How ALLIANCE ENTERTAINMENT HOLDING CORP looks technically
ALLIANCE ENTERTAINMENT HOLDING CORP (AENT) is trading 14.5% below its 200-day average, the long-term trend line — a long-term downtrend. Its 50-day average crossed below its 200-day average about 50 trading days ago — a "death cross", a bearish long-term signal. There is no clear trend right now — the price is choppy (ADX, a 0–100 trend-strength gauge, is 13, below the 25 that marks a real trend). Momentum is neutral — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 49, neither overbought (above 70) nor oversold (below 30). MACD, a trend-momentum gauge, turned bullish about 1 trading day ago (its momentum flipped positive). It made a new 20-day low about 19 trading days ago. It is 36.1% below its highest point of the past year. Day-to-day price swings are unusually narrow versus its own recent history — a "Bollinger squeeze" (in the tightest 3% of the past ~6 months), which often precedes a bigger move.
Trend
7
| Distance from the 200-day | it is trading 14.5% below its 200-day average, the long-term trend line — a long-term downtrend | -14.4% |
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| 50-day moving average | its average price over the last 50 trading days — a short-term trend line — is $5.72 | $5.72 |
| 200-day moving average | its average price over the last 200 trading days — the long-term trend line — is $6.57 | $6.57 |
| Swing structure | its recent peaks and dips disagree — one of them is rising while the other is not, so there is no clean up or down pattern in the swings | mixed — one of the two is not confirming |
| Last swing turn | its last significant turn was a swing high 16 calendar days ago — the swings before that are what the structure reading is measured on | 16 sessions |
| Since the 50/200 cross | its 50-day average crossed below its 200-day average about 50 trading days ago — a "death cross", a bearish long-term signal | 50 sessions |
| Trend strength (14-day ADX) | there is no clear trend right now — the price is choppy (ADX, a 0–100 trend-strength gauge, is 13, below the 25 that marks a real trend) | 12.5 |
Momentum
3
| 14-day RSI | momentum is neutral — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 49, neither overbought (above 70) nor oversold (below 30) | 48.5 |
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| Position in its 14-day range | it is trading in the lower half of its 14-day range ($5.42 to $6.19) — its "stochastic" reading is 26 out of 100, where 0 would mean closing exactly at the 14-session low and 100 exactly at the high. This measures WHERE the price sits inside its recent range, which is a different question from the RSI beside it: RSI is a momentum gauge, measuring how FAST the price has been moving, so a stock can drift quietly to the bottom of its range with an ordinary RSI, or fall sharply and still sit in the middle. It has been slipping within that range over the last few sessions. | 26.4 |
| Since the MACD crossed zero | MACD, a trend-momentum gauge, turned bullish about 1 trading day ago (its momentum flipped positive) | 1 session |
Range
12
| 52-week high | its highest closing price over the past year (about 252 trading days) was $8.80 | $8.80 |
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| From the 52-week high | it is 36.1% below its 52-week high (its highest price of the past year) | -36.1% |
| Above the 52-week low | it is 28.9% above its 52-week low (its lowest price of the past year) | +28.9% |
| Below the 52-week high | it is 36.1% below its highest point of the past year | 36.1% |
| Since a 20-day breakout | it made a new 20-day low about 19 trading days ago | 19 sessions |
| Since a 55-day breakout | it made a new 55-day low about 50 trading days ago | 50 sessions |
| All-time high | its highest closing price on record is $12.24 (set on 2023-01-26) | $12.24 |
| Given back of the 52-week move | over the past year its closes ranged ($4.62 to $8.43), and it has recovered roughly a quarter of its fall from last year’s high — 26% of it. Chart-watchers call 61.8%-65% given back the "golden pocket" — for this company that is $6.97 to $7.10. It is watched widely enough that orders cluster there, which is the honest reason it matters; it is not a forecast. | 26.3% |
| From the all-time high | it is 54.1% below its all-time high | -54.1% |
| Nearest price level | it is trading 5.9% above a support level at $5.29 — a price it turned at three times since 2024-12-16, most recently on 2026-06-02. Since 2024-08-26 it has 7 such levels below the current price and 8 above. Levels like these describe where the price has reversed or paused before; they are not a forecast of where it will go. | -5.9% |
| All-time low | its lowest closing price on record is $0.6624 (set on 2023-12-18) | $0.6624 |
| Above the all-time low | it is 748.4% above its all-time low | +748.4% |
Volatility
5
| Band width vs its own 6 months | day-to-day price swings are unusually narrow versus its own recent history — a "Bollinger squeeze" (in the tightest 3% of the past ~6 months), which often precedes a bigger move | 3rd percentile |
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| Typical daily range | in a typical session it travels about $0.3177 between its high and its low — about 5.7% of its price. That is its "average true range" over the last 14 sessions, which also counts the distance from the previous close, so a day that opens well away from yesterday counts as the large move it was | $0.3177 |
| Bollinger bands (20-day, ±2σ) | most of its recent trading has stayed between about $5.38 and $5.78 — the "Bollinger bands", a range drawn two standard deviations either side of its 20-day average price, which widens when the stock gets more volatile and narrows when it settles | $5.38 – $5.58 – $5.78 |
| Typical daily range (% of price) | its price moves about 5.7% in a typical session — about typical for the companies we cover. This is the average gap between a session's high and low over the last 14 sessions, counting overnight moves, expressed against the current price so it can be compared with companies trading at any price | 5.7% |
| Stretch from the 200-day average | it is trading 3.0 daily ranges below its 200-day average price (14.5% below it in plain percentage terms) — a way of asking how far it has stretched from its own average in units of how far it normally moves in a day, so a calm company and a jumpy one can be compared on the same scale | 3.0 daily ranges below its 200-day average |
Volume
1
| Volume vs its 30-day average | trading volume is about normal versus its 30-day average | 1.28× |
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Analyst
2
| Change in the average price target | analysts' average price target is unchanged from the prior reading | 0.0% |
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| Change in the consensus rating | not available for this company yet | n/a |
Candlestick patterns
3
| Since a doji | 4 sessions ago it opened and closed at almost the same price after trading through a wider range — a "doji", the classic picture of buyers and sellers finishing the session level | 4 sessions ago |
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| Since a bullish engulfing | 3 sessions ago it opened below the previous session's close and finished above that session's open — a "bullish engulfing" pair, where one up day more than undid the down day before it | 3 sessions ago |
| Since a bearish engulfing | 2 sessions ago it opened above the previous session's close and finished below that session's open — a "bearish engulfing" pair, where one down day more than undid the up day before it | 2 sessions ago |
Price gaps
2
| Gap at the open | it opened on 2026-08-26 1.5% above the previous session's close — an overnight gap, the part of the move that happened while the market was shut, and traded back through that level before the close | +1.4% |
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| Gap filled | a 2.8% gap up opened on 2026-08-25 has been "filled" today — price traded back through the level the gap left behind, and it took 1 session to close | today |
Price streaks
1
| Closing streak | it has closed higher 2 sessions in a row, a +3.12% move over the run — an unbroken run of up days, which describes what has already happened and says nothing about the next session | 2 sessions up |
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Relative strength
4
| vs market, 1 month | over the past 1 month this stock lagged the market by 8.6 percentage points (the stock lost 4.9% while the market gained 3.7%) | -8.6% |
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| vs market, 3 months | over the past 3 months this stock lagged the market by 12.9 percentage points (the stock lost 10.8% while the market gained 2.1%) | -12.9% |
| vs market, 6 months | over the past 6 months this stock lagged the market by 1.2 percentage points (the stock gained 10.0% while the market gained 11.1%) | -1.2% |
| vs market, 12 months | over the past 12 months this stock lagged the market by 15.8 percentage points (the stock gained 2.9% while the market gained 18.7%) | -15.8% |
Signal agreement
2
| Bullish technical signals | 1 of the 9 technical signals we can compute for it is currently in a bullish state: MACD momentum is positive — these describe past price behaviour, not a forecast | 1 of 9 |
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| Bearish technical signals | 4 of the 9 technical signals we can compute for it are currently in a bearish state: a "death cross" — its 50-day average is below its 200-day, trading below its 200-day average, lagging the market over 6 months, trading below the Ichimoku cloud — these describe past price behaviour, not a forecast | 4 of 9 |
Trend (Ichimoku cloud)
1
| Vs the Ichimoku cloud | trading 2.4% below the Ichimoku cloud — a band drawn from where its own highs and lows sat up to 2026-07-21 and projected forward over today's price, the side traders read as an established downtrend, with the band above acting as the level that would have to be cleared. The band itself is thick, spanning 12.9% of the share price, which is taken to mean a barrier that has held for a while and takes effort to cross. | -2.4% |
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Volume-weighted price
2
| Vs this year’s average price paid | the price is 12% below the average price paid so far this year, so the typical buyer over that stretch is under water. That average is $6.35 — a volume-weighted average of daily closes over 160 sessions, not a true tick-by-tick VWAP. | -11.5% |
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| Vs the average paid since it last reported | the price is 6% below the average price paid since it last reported on 2026-05-14 (its 10-Q), so the typical buyer over that stretch is under water. That average is $5.98 — a volume-weighted average of daily closes over 69 sessions, not a true tick-by-tick VWAP. | -6.0% |
Price levels it has turned at before
AENT last closed at $5.62 on 2026-08-26. Since 2024-08-26 it has turned at 7 prices below its last close and 8 above; the 3 nearest below and the 3 nearest above are listed, nearest first.
| Level | Side | Distance | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| $5.29 | Support | 5.9% below the last close | turned there three times · 2024-12-16 to 2026-06-02 |
| $5.99 | Resistance | 6.6% above the last close | turned there five times · 2025-08-18 to 2026-03-31 |
| $5.10 | Support | 9.3% below the last close | turned there three times · 2025-07-15 to 2026-08-04 |
| $6.15 | Resistance | 9.5% above the last close | turned there four times · 2026-02-05 to 2026-08-10 |
| $4.99 | Support | 11.2% below the last close | turned there four times · 2024-11-11 to 2026-06-17 |
| $6.57 | Resistance | 16.9% above the last close | turned there three times · 2025-07-23 to 2026-04-20 |
A level is a price this company reversed or paused at more than once — they describe past behaviour, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Wave structure
No Elliott-wave labelling currently fits its swings: the recent highs and lows do not satisfy the three rules a five-wave count has to obey, so there is no count to show rather than a count we are unsure about.
Read from daily closes as of 2026-08-26.
An Elliott-wave count describes the swings already printed and the level that would disprove it. It is not a forecast, a target, or advice.
Screens: Trading below the 200-day moving average · Pulled back from the 12-month high · MACD just crossed bullish (12/26/9) · in a Bollinger Band volatility squeeze · trendless / choppy (low ADX) · Under water since its last earnings report (below the anchored VWAP) | Learn: moving average · golden cross · adx · rsi · macd · breakout · fifty two week high low · bollinger bands
Based on daily closing prices as of 2026-08-26. Describes past price behavior only — informational, not financial advice.
Analyst consensus
- Mean price target$9.00 range $8.00 – $10.00
Analyst estimates, as of 2026-08-24. These are third-party analyst opinions and price targets, aggregated — not a recommendation, prediction, or advice from stocks-llm. Informational only.
Key risks (from latest filing)
["Dependence on physical media sales in a declining format; vulnerable to shifts in consumer consumption toward digital and streaming services","Working capital intensity with significant inventory holdings ($126.7M) relative to current assets, exposing the company to inventory obsolescence and demand fluctuations","Highly leveraged capital structure with revolving credit facility ($64.3M) and contingent liabilities ($6.6M total), limiting financial flexibility"]
What changed in the latest 10-Q
AI-assisted comparison of AENT's 10-Q filed 2026-05-14 against the prior one filed 2026-02-12.
Management's Discussion & Analysis (MD&A)
- Reworded:
- Newer filing (2026-05-14): 'information that the Company's management team believes' vs. Older filing (2026-02-12): 'information the Company's management team believes' — addition of word 'that'
- Newer filing (2026-05-14): 'forward- looking' appears as 'forward-looking' (hyphenation correction) vs. Older filing (2026-02-12): 'forward- looking' with space before hyphen
- Notes:
- Both filings are truncated at the same point ('See "Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" and Part I,'), limiting full section comparison
- Changes are minimal and primarily grammatical/stylistic in nature
Risk Factors
The two filings could not be meaningfully compared for this section.
AI-assisted comparison of two SEC filing sections. It describes wording and theme changes only, makes no materiality, legal, or investment judgement, and is not financial advice. Informational only — not financial advice.
Insider activity (SEC Form 4)
No open-market insider purchases or sales recorded in the last 90 days.
Most recent open-market transaction: 2025-06-18. As of 2026-08-27.
View full insider trading history → View SEC Form 3/4/5 filingsAsk about AENT's insider activity →
Only open-market purchases (SEC code P) and sales (code S) are counted here. Option exercises, vesting/awards, gifts, and shares withheld for taxes are excluded — they are compensation or mechanical, not open-market conviction. Sales may be planned and non-discretionary (e.g. a Rule 10b5-1 plan) and are not necessarily bearish; open-market buying is not a recommendation to buy. Informational only — not financial advice.
Institutional ownership (13F)
1 institutional 13F filer reported holding AENT as of 2026-03-31 (quarter-end position, filed within 45 days).
- Distinct 13F filers 1
- Reported shares held 300
- Reported value $1,965
reported quarterly holdings change (2025-12-31 → 2026-03-31): 1 new, 0 increased, 0 decreased, 1 exited. Change counts cover only managers that filed 13F reports in BOTH quarters, derived between two quarter-end snapshots — not same-day trades; a single manager is never said to have "bought" or "sold".
Institutional holdings are quarter-end long positions reported on SEC Form 13F-HR, filed up to 45 days after the quarter ends — they are delayed, are not real-time trades, exclude short positions and most non-US securities, and are not investment advice. Any increase/decrease is a reported change between two quarterly snapshots, not a same-day purchase or sale. These are quarter-end snapshots from the 13F filings on SEC EDGAR, filed within 45 days — not real-time, and any change is a difference between two quarterly reports, not a same-day trade. Informational only — not financial advice.
Short interest (FINRA)
AENT had 335,981 shares of reported short interest as of the 2026-07-31 FINRA settlement date (delayed, bi-monthly; not real-time).
Short interest as a percent of shares outstanding is not shown for AENT because the newest share count we hold predates that settlement by more than 180 days, and a buyback or issuance in between would move the base. The reported figures above are unaffected.
- Reported short interest (shares) 335,981
- Prior settlement (shares) 338,983
- Reported change -0.89%
- Days to cover (reported) 21.49
Reported to FINRA as of the 2026-07-31 settlement date. Short interest is reported to FINRA and published on a delayed, bi-monthly schedule (as of a settlement date, disseminated roughly eight business days later) — it is NOT real-time, does not cover every venue or all US trading, and is not a short-squeeze prediction or investment advice. Days-to-cover is the value FINRA reports; percent of float is not shown because the source file carries no share-count denominator — where a percent appears it is of shares OUTSTANDING, the larger base, and is therefore a floor on percent of float. Informational only — not financial advice.
Competitors & peers
- Baker & Taylor
- Ingram Content Group
- Alliance Data Systems (ADS)
- Direct Brands
- Diamond Comic Distributors
AI-enriched competitor set. Linked names are companies covered by stocks-llm; other named peers are shown for reference only.
Frequently asked questions
What does ALLIANCE ENTERTAINMENT HOLDING CORP (AENT) do?
Alliance Entertainment Holding Corporation is a wholesaler and distributor of entertainment products, including physical media (music, movies, games) and merchandise. The company operates a distribution and fulfillment network serving retail partners across multiple channels. It generates revenue through the sale and distribution of entertainment content and related products to retailers and end consumers.
What sector is ALLIANCE ENTERTAINMENT HOLDING CORP (AENT) in?
ALLIANCE ENTERTAINMENT HOLDING CORP (AENT) is classified in the Consumer Discretionary sector. Its industry is Entertainment and media wholesaling/distribution. It trades on NASDAQ.
Who are ALLIANCE ENTERTAINMENT HOLDING CORP's (AENT) competitors?
Notable peers of ALLIANCE ENTERTAINMENT HOLDING CORP (AENT) include Baker & Taylor, Ingram Content Group, Alliance Data Systems, Direct Brands and Diamond Comic Distributors. This peer set is informational only — not financial advice.
Is ALLIANCE ENTERTAINMENT HOLDING CORP (AENT) overbought or oversold right now?
ALLIANCE ENTERTAINMENT HOLDING CORP (AENT) is currently neither overbought nor oversold — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 49, in the neutral middle (as of 2026-08-26). RSI describes recent price momentum, not a forecast — informational only, not financial advice.
Where does stocks-llm's data on AENT come from?
Fundamentals and prices come from market data, as of 2026-08-27; company filings and profile facts come from SEC EDGAR. All figures are delayed daily-close data shown with their as-of date — informational only, not financial advice.
Fundamentals: market data, as of 2026-08-27. Filings: SEC EDGAR. Prices are delayed daily-close data.
Last updated 2026-08-26.
Informational only — NOT financial advice. All figures are delayed daily-close data from SEC EDGAR & market data, shown with their as-of date.