Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc (MMC) is expecting -1.60% growth in the next quarter: What can investors do to maximize their returns?

On Tuesday, Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc (NYSE: MMC) was -1.31% drop from the session before settling in for the closing price of $223.67. A 52-week range for MMC has been $184.28 – $232.32.

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Over the past five-year period, the growth rate of yearbook sales for the company of the Financial sector was 8.88%. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 9.12%. With a float of $490.69 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $492.01 million.

Considering the fact that the conglomerate employs 85000 people, you should pay attention to its efficiency factor. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 43.07%, operating margin of 25.21%, and the pretax margin is 23.05%.

Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc (MMC) Insider Activity

Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc stocks. The insider ownership of Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc is 0.09%, while institutional ownership is 90.09%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Oct 30 ’24, was worth 553,875. In this transaction Director of this company sold 2,500 shares at a rate of $221.55, taking the stock ownership to the 48,549 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Oct 31 ’24, when Company’s Director sold 2,500 for $220.54, making the entire transaction worth $551,350. This insider now owns 46,049 shares in total.

Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc (MMC) Earnings and Forecasts

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 9.12% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 7.87% during the next five years compared to 18.44% growth over the previous five years of trading.

Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc (NYSE: MMC) Trading Performance Indicators

You can see what Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc (MMC) 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 4.53. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 28.76.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 8.11, a number that is poised to hit 1.79 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 9.47 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc (MMC)

Compared to the last year’s volume of 1.69 million, its volume of 1.66 million showed lagged in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 21.27%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 3.42.

During the past 100 days, Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc’s (MMC) raw stochastic average was set at 49.10%, which indicates a significant increase from 25.04% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 14.07% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 13.47% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $223.95, while its 200-day Moving Average is $213.41. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $222.86 in the near term. At $224.98, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $226.30. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $219.42, it is likely to go to the next support level at $218.10. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $215.98.

Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc (NYSE: MMC) Key Stats

There are 491,122K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 108.41 billion. As of now, sales total 22,736 M while income totals 3,756 M. Its latest quarter income was 5,697 M while its last quarter net income were 747,000 K.