With 1.04 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.45 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Life company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $82.88 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $81.525. The 52-week range on UNM shows that it touched its highest point at $84.48 and its lowest point at $48.38 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $93.07. With its current market cap of 14.48 billion, UNM has annualized dividend of $1.62 while the current yield stands at 1.98%. UNM paid its most recent dividend on 1737676800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1737676800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.44.
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 UNM was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.05%, but this was up by 5.97% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 12.52% while six-month performance rose 42.64%. The stock gained 54.13% in the past year, while it has gained 12.13% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for UNM yields 9.47 with Next year EPS estimates of 9.91. For the next quarter, that number is 2.18. This implies an EPS growth rate of 7.24% for this year and 9.49% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 8.45% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 12.53%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 178.59 million UNM shares are outstanding with a float of 174.96 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-14, short shares totaled 2.91 million, which was 165.0 higher than short shares on 1739491200. In addition to Mr. Richard Paul McKenney as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Steven Andrew Zabel serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.90961 of UNM’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for UNM since 6 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 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 UNM analysts setting a high price target of 108.0 and a low target of 75.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 91.84615. Based on these targets, UNM could surge 31.88% to reach the target high and fall by -8.41% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 12.16% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $8.64005 being high and $8.52954 being low. For UNM, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $8.57977.
