On Tuesday, Aflac Inc (NYSE: AFL) was -0.81% drop from the session before settling in for the closing price of $112.04. A 52-week range for AFL has been $75.07 – $115.50.
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Annual sales at Financial sector company slipped by -2.82% over the past five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 15.15%. With a float of $499.51 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $578.48 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 12785 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 100.0%, operating margin of 27.54%, and the pretax margin is 26.42%.
Aflac Inc (AFL) Insider Updates
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Aflac Inc stocks. The insider ownership of Aflac Inc is 10.08%, while institutional ownership is 59.63%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 08 ’24, was worth 64,998. In this transaction Director of this company sold 600 shares at a rate of $108.33, taking the stock ownership to the 26,372 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 08 ’24, when Company’s Director proposed sale 600 for $108.33, making the entire transaction worth $64,998.
Aflac Inc (AFL) Performance Highlights and Predictions
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 15.15% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 9.37% during the next five years compared to 15.60% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Aflac Inc (NYSE: AFL) Trading Performance Indicators
You can see what Aflac Inc (AFL) 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 3.57. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 19.25.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 6.64, a number that is poised to hit 1.63 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 7.17 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Aflac Inc (AFL)
Aflac Inc (NYSE: AFL) saw its 5-day average volume 1.86 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 2.23 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 88.69%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.86.
During the past 100 days, Aflac Inc’s (AFL) raw stochastic average was set at 84.11%, which indicates a significant decrease from 86.42% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 27.68% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 20.28% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $110.52, while its 200-day Moving Average is $94.66. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $111.75 in the near term. At $112.37, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $113.21. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $110.29, it is likely to go to the next support level at $109.45. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $108.83.
Aflac Inc (NYSE: AFL) Key Stats
There are 555,528K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 61.74 billion. As of now, sales total 18,701 M while income totals 4,659 M. Its latest quarter income was 2,949 M while its last quarter net income were -93,000 K.
