Prudential Financial Inc (NYSE: PRU) on Tuesday, plunged -1.18% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $101.43. Within the past 52 weeks, PRU’s price has moved between $90.38 and $130.55.
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During the last 5-year period, the sales growth of Financial Sector giant was 3.58%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 9.37%. With a float of $353.66 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $354.57 million.
Let’s determine the extent of company efficiency that accounts for 38196 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 45.67%, operating margin of 45.5%, and the pretax margin is 4.65%.
Prudential Financial Inc (PRU) Insider Activity
Observing investor behavior towards Insurance – Life industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Prudential Financial Inc is 0.22%, while institutional ownership is 61.42%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Mar 26 ’25, was worth 18,000,000. In this transaction 10% Owner of this company bought 721,732 shares at a rate of $24.94, taking the stock ownership to the 5,656,908 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 26 ’25, when Company’s 10% Owner bought 1,340,694 for $28.53, making the entire transaction worth $38,250,000. This insider now owns 1,480,681 shares in total.
Prudential Financial Inc (PRU) Earnings and Forecasts
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 3.52 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 9.37% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 7.93% during the next five years compared to -5.79% drop over the previous five years of trading.
Prudential Financial Inc (NYSE: PRU) Trading Performance Indicators
Prudential Financial Inc (PRU) 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 0.50. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 4.18.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 7.48, a number that is poised to hit 3.27 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 14.80 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Prudential Financial Inc (PRU)
Looking closely at Prudential Financial Inc (NYSE: PRU), its last 5-days average volume was 2.57 million, which is a jump from its year-to-date volume of 1.93 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 47.22%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 4.68.
During the past 100 days, Prudential Financial Inc’s (PRU) raw stochastic average was set at 24.52%, which indicates a significant decrease from 38.90% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 65.58% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 32.91% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $109.18, while its 200-day Moving Average is $117.70. However, in the short run, Prudential Financial Inc’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $101.64. Second resistance stands at $103.06. The third major resistance level sits at $103.84. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $99.44, it is likely to go to the next support level at $98.66. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $97.24.
Prudential Financial Inc (NYSE: PRU) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 35.52 billion based on 354,427K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 70,405 M and income totals 2,727 M. The company made 12,523 M in profit during its latest quarter, and -57,000 K in sales during its previous quarter.
