A new trading day began on Monday, with Humana Inc (NYSE: HUM) stock price up 6.81% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $269.04. HUM’s price has ranged from $213.31 to $459.76 over the past 52 weeks.
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A company in the Healthcare sector has jumped its sales by 13.22% annually for the last half of the decade. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged -38.09%. With a float of $120.14 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $120.41 million.
In an organization with 67600 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 88.39%, operating margin of 2.28%, and the pretax margin is 1.73%.
Humana Inc (HUM) Insider and Institutional Ownership
As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Healthcare Plans Industry. The insider ownership of Humana Inc is 0.23%, while institutional ownership is 96.31%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Dec 31 ’24, was worth 948,925. In this transaction Chief Administrative Officer of this company sold 3,703 shares at a rate of $256.26, taking the stock ownership to the 8,181 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Dec 31 ’24, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 3,703 for $253.42, making the entire transaction worth $938,433.
Humana Inc (HUM) Latest Financial update
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 6.97 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -38.09% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 2.51% during the next five years compared to 10.46% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Humana Inc (NYSE: HUM) Trading Performance Indicators
Here are Humana Inc’s current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.30.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 11.29, a number that is poised to hit -2.17 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 16.88 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Humana Inc (HUM)
Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 1.45 million. That was better than the volume of 1.36 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 83.35%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 10.10.
During the past 100 days, Humana Inc’s (HUM) raw stochastic average was set at 43.71%, which indicates a significant decrease from 94.09% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 33.37% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 49.14% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $273.19, while its 200-day Moving Average is $318.92. However, in the short run, Humana Inc’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $292.37. Second resistance stands at $297.38. The third major resistance level sits at $304.09. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $280.65, it is likely to go to the next support level at $273.94. The third support level lies at $268.93 if the price breaches the second support level.
Humana Inc (NYSE: HUM) Key Stats
With a market capitalization of 34.60 billion, the company has a total of 120,411K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 106,374 M while annual income is 2,489 M. The company’s previous quarter sales were 29,397 M while its latest quarter income was 480,000 K.
