With 10.02 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 4.1 million shares. During the session, the Healthcare Plans company that operates in wider Healthcare sector, reached to the highest price of $506.535 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $486.35. The 52-week range on UNH shows that it touched its highest point at $630.73 and its lowest point at $436.38 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $639.52. With its current market cap of 459.88 billion, UNH has annualized dividend of $8.18 while the current yield stands at 1.64%. UNH paid its most recent dividend on 1733702400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1733702400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.60.
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Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of UNH was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -6.34%, but this was down by -15.25% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -13.40% while six-month performance rose 3.14%. The stock lost -5.10% in the past year, while it has lost -5.08% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for UNH yields 15.39 with Next year EPS estimates of 29.86. For the next quarter, that number is 6.73. This implies an EPS growth rate of 9.90% for this year and 8.18% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 13.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 14.37%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 923.00 million UNH shares are outstanding with a float of 918.14 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-11-29, short shares totaled 7.92 million, which was 86.0 higher than short shares on 1730332800. In addition to Sir Andrew Philip Witty as the firm’s CEO & Non-Independent Director, Mr. John F. Rex serves as its President & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.90169996 of UNH’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, UNH reported revenue of $99177000000.0 and operating income of $7065000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $8106000000.0 and diluted EPS was $6.51.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for UNH since 28 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 23 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 2 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 1 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With UNH analysts setting a high price target of 700.0 and a low target of 587.12, the average target price over the next 12 months is 636.04694. Based on these targets, UNH could surge 40.08% to reach the target high and rise by 17.49% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 27.28% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $27.76744 being high and $27.27748 being low. For UNH, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $27.60745.
