Unitedhealth Group Inc (NYSE: UNH) on Monday, soared 1.46% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $439.20. Within the past 52 weeks, UNH’s price has moved between $436.38 and $554.70.
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Over the past five-year period, the growth rate of yearbook sales for the company of the Healthcare sector was 10.48%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 9.46%. With a float of $920.22 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $924.00 million.
Considering the fact that the conglomerate employs 440000 people, you should pay attention to its efficiency factor.
Unitedhealth Group Inc (UNH) Insider Activity
Observing investor behavior towards Healthcare Plans industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Unitedhealth Group Inc is 0.19%, while institutional ownership is 90.43%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Mar 08 ’24, was worth 597,582. In this transaction EVP & Chief People Officer of this company sold 1,236 shares at a rate of $483.48, taking the stock ownership to the 9,364 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Feb 23 ’24, when Company’s Chief Accounting Officer sold 858 for $525.79, making the entire transaction worth $451,128. This insider now owns 32,289 shares in total.
Unitedhealth Group Inc (UNH) Earnings and Forecasts
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 14.14 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 9.46% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 13.40% during the next five years compared to 14.37% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Unitedhealth Group Inc (NYSE: UNH) Trading Performance Indicators
Unitedhealth Group Inc (UNH) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.11. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 16.00.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 23.85, a number that is poised to hit 6.61 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 31.07 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Unitedhealth Group Inc (UNH)
Compared to the last year’s volume of 4.31 million, its volume of 5.06 million showed improvement in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 15.24%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 9.01.
During the past 100 days, Unitedhealth Group Inc’s (UNH) raw stochastic average was set at 7.82%, which indicates a significant decrease from 15.55% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 30.95% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 21.71% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $491.10, while its 200-day Moving Average is $507.92. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $448.66 in the near term. At $451.68, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $455.02. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $442.30, it is likely to go to the next support level at $438.96. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $435.94.
Unitedhealth Group Inc (NYSE: UNH) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 410.84 billion based on 921,934K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 371,622 M and income totals 22,381 M. The company made 94,427 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 5,455 M in sales during its previous quarter.
