Aflac Inc (NYSE: AFL) on Friday, plunged -0.09% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $114.10. Within the past 52 weeks, AFL’s price has moved between $75.07 and $115.50.
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A company in the Financial sector has dropped its sales by -2.82% annually for the last half of the decade. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 15.63%. With a float of $499.51 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $578.48 million.
In an organization with 12785 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. 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 and Institutional Ownership
Observing investor behavior towards Insurance – Life industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Aflac Inc is 10.08%, while institutional ownership is 59.60%. 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) Latest Financial update
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 15.63% 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
Aflac Inc (AFL) 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 3.66. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 19.73.
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)
Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 1.84 million. That was inferior than the volume of 2.21 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 78.05%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.74.
During the past 100 days, Aflac Inc’s (AFL) raw stochastic average was set at 94.03%, which indicates a significant increase from 80.17% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 12.99% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 20.28% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $111.10, while its 200-day Moving Average is $95.88. However, in the short run, Aflac Inc’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $114.75. Second resistance stands at $115.49. The third major resistance level sits at $115.92. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $113.58, it is likely to go to the next support level at $113.15. The third support level lies at $112.41 if the price breaches the second support level.
Aflac Inc (NYSE: AFL) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 63.27 billion based on 555,528K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 18,701 M and income totals 4,659 M. The company made 2,949 M in profit during its latest quarter, and -93,000 K in sales during its previous quarter.
