With 1.54 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 2.08 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Life company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $108.64 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $106.145. The 52-week range on AFL shows that it touched its highest point at $115.50 and its lowest point at $80.59 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $104.57. With its current market cap of 59.12 billion, AFL has annualized dividend of $2.08 while the current yield stands at 1.92%. AFL paid its most recent dividend on 1739923200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1739923200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.83.
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 AFL was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -0.18%, but this was up by 0.06% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 1.80% while six-month performance fell -5.81%. The stock gained 33.75% in the past year, while it has gained 4.71% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for AFL yields 9.61 with Next year EPS estimates of 7.18. For the next quarter, that number is 1.67. This implies an EPS growth rate of -6.07% for this year and 6.05% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 1.25% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 16.83%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 549.96 million AFL shares are outstanding with a float of 489.47 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 9.16 million, which was 168.0 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. Daniel Paul Amos as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. Virgil Raynard Miller serves as its President.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.60282004 of AFL’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 AFL since 5 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 3 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 AFL analysts setting a high price target of 124.0 and a low target of 94.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 105.53846. Based on these targets, AFL could surge 14.49% to reach the target high and fall by -13.21% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -2.56% 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 $7.32268 being high and $7.17221 being low. For AFL, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $7.27252. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.8 and the low estimate is $1.65. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.73.
