Unum Group (UNM) last year’s performance of 35.69% is a clear signal for an entertaining trading season.

On Monday, Unum Group (NYSE: UNM) was -0.86% down from the session before settling in for the closing price of $53.73. A 52-week range for UNM has been $38.80 – $54.57.

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During the last 5-year period, the sales growth of Financial Sector giant was 1.53%. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 6.49%. With a float of $189.42 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $193.37 million.

Let’s determine the extent of company efficiency that accounts for 10812 employees.

Unum Group (UNM) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock

Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Unum Group stocks. The insider ownership of Unum Group is 1.09%, while institutional ownership is 88.03%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Mar 13 ’24, was worth 510,600. In this transaction EVP, Chief Financial Officer of this company sold 10,000 shares at a rate of $51.06, taking the stock ownership to the 122,246 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 05 ’24, when Company’s EVP, General Counsel sold 16,000 for $50.00, making the entire transaction worth $800,064. This insider now owns 40,840 shares in total.

Unum Group (UNM) Recent Fiscal highlights

Going through the last 3-months fiscal report unveiled on the 12/30/2023, it has been observed that the corporation posted $1.79 earnings per share (EPS) during the time that was less than consensus figure (set at $1.87) by -$0.08. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 2.05 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 6.49% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 8.30% during the next five years compared to 22.26% growth over the previous five years of trading.

Unum Group (NYSE: UNM) Trading Performance Indicators

You can see what Unum Group (UNM) is doing with its current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.82. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 9.55.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 6.49, a number that is poised to hit 1.98 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 8.79 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Unum Group (UNM)

Looking closely at Unum Group (NYSE: UNM), its last 5-days average volume was 1.04 million, which is a drop from its year-to-date volume of 1.45 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 47.11%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.75.

During the past 100 days, Unum Group’s (UNM) raw stochastic average was set at 89.77%, which indicates a significant increase from 51.49% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 14.80% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 16.09% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $50.31, while its 200-day Moving Average is $47.87. However, in the short run, Unum Group’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $53.63. Second resistance stands at $53.99. The third major resistance level sits at $54.17. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $53.09, it is likely to go to the next support level at $52.91. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $52.55.

Unum Group (NYSE: UNM) Key Stats

There are 191,922K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 10.20 billion. As of now, sales total 12,386 M while income totals 1,284 M. Its latest quarter income was 3,145 M while its last quarter net income were 330,600 K.