As on Thursday, Humana Inc (NYSE: HUM) started slowly as it slid -2.17% to $283.14, before settling in for the price of $289.42 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, HUM posted a 52-week range of $213.31-$527.18.
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The Healthcare sector firm’s twelve-monthly sales growth has been 13.38% for the last half of the decade. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 10.46%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is -38.10%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $122.22 million, simultaneously with a float of $120.11 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $34.09 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $283.00, while the 200-day Moving Average is $334.80.
Humana Inc (HUM) Ownership Facts and Figures
Another important factor to analyze is how key investors are playing towards the stock of the Healthcare Plans industry. Humana Inc’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.25%, in contrast to 97.60% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Feb 20 ’24, this organization’s Director bought 545 shares at the rate of 367.09, making the entire transaction reach 200,066 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 2,578.
Humana Inc (HUM) Earnings and Revenue Records
Humana Inc’s EPS decrease for this current 12-month fiscal period is -38.10% and is forecasted to reach 17.16 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 2.51% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 10.46% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.
Humana Inc (NYSE: HUM) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Humana Inc (HUM). The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 12.03. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $25.07, and its Beta score is 0.52. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 0.30.
In the same vein, HUM’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 11.29, a figure that is expected to reach -2.08 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 17.16 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Humana Inc (HUM)
Through scrutinizing the latest numbers posted by the [Humana Inc, HUM], it can be observed that its last 5-days Average volume of 1.97 million was better the volume of 1.88 million, it posted the year before. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 70.89% While, its Average True Range was 12.17.
Raw Stochastic average of Humana Inc (HUM) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 36.15%, which indicates a major fall in contrast to 68.56% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 51.98% that was higher than 46.21% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
