Unum Group (UNM)’s latest performance is not what we had anticipated

Unum Group (NYSE: UNM) on Monday, soared 3.53% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $78.83. Within the past 52 weeks, UNM’s price has moved between $48.38 and $83.96.

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It was noted that within the last five years, the titan of the Financial sector saw sales topped by 1.65%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 7.24%. With a float of $174.96 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $178.59 million.

The extent of productivity of a business whose workforce counts for 11063 workers is very important to gauge. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 97.54%, operating margin of 15.39%, and the pretax margin is 17.52%.

Unum Group (UNM) Insider Updates

Observing investor behavior towards Insurance – Life industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Unum Group is 1.03%, while institutional ownership is 88.81%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Mar 03 ’25, was worth 808,788. In this transaction Director of this company sold 10,000 shares at a rate of $80.88, taking the stock ownership to the 27,396 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 03 ’25, when Company’s President and CEO sold 50,000 for $81.99, making the entire transaction worth $4,099,454. This insider now owns 980,637 shares in total.

Unum Group (UNM) Performance Highlights and Predictions

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 7.24% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 8.45% during the next five years compared to 12.53% growth over the previous five years of trading.

Unum Group (NYSE: UNM) Trading Performance Indicators

Unum Group (UNM) 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 1.12. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 13.51.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 9.47, a number that is poised to hit 2.18 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 9.91 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Unum Group (UNM)

The latest stats from [Unum Group, UNM] show that its last 5-days average volume of 1.47 million was superior to 1.3 million than last year’s volume. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 50.58%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 2.37.

During the past 100 days, Unum Group’s (UNM) raw stochastic average was set at 89.60%, which indicates a significant increase from 69.56% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 42.19% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 26.38% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $76.17, while its 200-day Moving Average is $64.10. Now, the first resistance to watch is $82.66. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $83.71. The third major resistance level sits at $85.36. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $79.96, it is likely to go to the next support level at $78.31. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $77.26.

Unum Group (NYSE: UNM) Key Stats

Market capitalization of the company is 14.43 billion based on 176,778K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 12,887 M and income totals 1,779 M. The company made 3,237 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 348,700 K in sales during its previous quarter.