Unum Group (NYSE: UNM) on Tuesday, plunged -0.36% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $61.85. Within the past 52 weeks, UNM’s price has moved between $41.75 and $64.52.
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A company in the Financial sector has jumped its sales by 1.53% annually for the last half of the decade. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 11.06%. With a float of $184.17 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $193.37 million.
In an organization with 10812 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 96.23%, operating margin of 1.5%, and the pretax margin is 13.26%.
Unum Group (UNM) Insider Updates
Observing investor behavior towards Insurance – Life industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Unum Group is 0.86%, while institutional ownership is 88.74%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Sep 05 ’24, was worth 3,727,206. In this transaction President and CEO of this company sold 67,795 shares at a rate of $54.98, taking the stock ownership to the 1,065,868 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Sep 05 ’24, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 67,795 for $55.57, making the entire transaction worth $3,767,368.
Unum Group (UNM) Performance Highlights and Predictions
As on 9/30/2024, Multinational firm has announced its last quarter scores, in which it reported 1.79 earnings per share (EPS) for the period falling under the consensus outlook (set at 1.87) by -0.08. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 2.18 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 11.06% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 8.00% during the next five years compared to 22.26% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Unum Group (NYSE: UNM) Trading Performance Indicators
Unum Group (UNM) 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 0.90. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 10.72.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 6.81, a number that is poised to hit 2.12 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 8.95 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Unum Group (UNM)
Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 1.36 million. That was better than the volume of 1.23 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 10.06%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.99.
During the past 100 days, Unum Group’s (UNM) raw stochastic average was set at 82.09%, which indicates a significant increase from 10.66% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 15.29% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 20.92% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $58.37, while its 200-day Moving Average is $53.01. However, in the short run, Unum Group’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $61.98. Second resistance stands at $62.33. The third major resistance level sits at $62.64. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $61.33, it is likely to go to the next support level at $61.02. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $60.67.
Unum Group (NYSE: UNM) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 11.45 billion based on 185,773K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 12,386 M and income totals 1,284 M. The company made 3,233 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 389,500 K in sales during its previous quarter.
