Aflac Inc (NYSE: AFL) kicked off on Friday, up 0.13% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $104.38. Over the past 52 weeks, AFL has traded in a range of $75.07-$115.50.
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It was noted that within the last five years, the titan of the Financial sector saw sales slided by -2.82%. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 16.44%. With a float of $499.15 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $556.72 million.
The extent of productivity of a business whose workforce counts for 12785 workers is very important to gauge. 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
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Insurance – Life Industry. The insider ownership of Aflac Inc is 10.16%, while institutional ownership is 59.54%. 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
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.75 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 16.44% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 7.85% during the next five years compared to 15.60% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Aflac Inc (NYSE: AFL) Trading Performance Indicators
Take a look at Aflac Inc’s (AFL) current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 3.36. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 18.13.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 6.64, a number that is poised to hit 1.62 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 7.05 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Aflac Inc (AFL)
The latest stats from [Aflac Inc, AFL] show that its last 5-days average volume of 1.97 million was inferior to 2.21 million than last year’s volume. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 14.52%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.90.
During the past 100 days, Aflac Inc’s (AFL) raw stochastic average was set at 48.93%, which indicates a significant increase from 13.75% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 21.70% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 21.60% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $110.16, while its 200-day Moving Average is $97.19. Now, the first resistance to watch is $105.15. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $105.79. The third major resistance level sits at $106.27. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $104.04, it is likely to go to the next support level at $103.56. The third support level lies at $102.93 if the price breaches the second support level.
Aflac Inc (NYSE: AFL) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 58.14 billion has total of 555,528K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 18,701 M in contrast with the sum of 4,659 M annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 2,949 M and last quarter income was -93,000 K.
