Aflac Inc (NYSE: AFL) on Tuesday, plunged -0.46% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $106.76. Within the past 52 weeks, AFL’s price has moved between $79.31 and $115.50.
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During the last 5-year period, the sales drop of Financial Sector giant was -3.08%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of -5.94%. With a float of $490.93 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $549.96 million.
Let’s determine the extent of company efficiency that accounts for 12694 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 100.0%, operating margin of 33.54%, and the pretax margin is 33.54%.
Aflac Inc (AFL) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock
Observing investor behavior towards Insurance – Life industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Aflac Inc is 10.18%, while institutional ownership is 59.64%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Mar 10 ’25, was worth 3,197,509. In this transaction Chairman & Rep. Director, ALIJ of this company sold 29,802 shares at a rate of $107.29, taking the stock ownership to the 49,962 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 07 ’25, when Company’s Chairman & Rep. Director, ALIJ sold 23,170 for $107.63, making the entire transaction worth $2,493,787. This insider now owns 79,764 shares in total.
Aflac Inc (AFL) Recent Fiscal highlights
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.72 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -5.94% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 1.41% during the next five years compared to 16.83% 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 3.07. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 21.46.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 9.61, a number that is poised to hit 1.68 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 7.17 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Aflac Inc (AFL)
Looking closely at Aflac Inc (NYSE: AFL), its last 5-days average volume was 2.11 million, which is a jump from its year-to-date volume of 1.92 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 33.66%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.99.
During the past 100 days, Aflac Inc’s (AFL) raw stochastic average was set at 40.61%, which indicates a significant decrease from 49.03% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 22.96% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 21.07% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $105.15, while its 200-day Moving Average is $103.14. However, in the short run, Aflac Inc’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $107.20. Second resistance stands at $108.13. The third major resistance level sits at $108.94. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $105.46, it is likely to go to the next support level at $104.65. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $103.72.
Aflac Inc (NYSE: AFL) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 58.09 billion based on 546,588K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 18,927 M and income totals 5,443 M. The company made 5,403 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 1,902 M in sales during its previous quarter.
