Aflac Inc. (AFL) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $79.64, with 3.4 million shares of worth about $270.68 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 1.04% during that period and on April 11, 2024 the price saw a loss of about -3.96%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 578.48M shares, out of which, 518.61M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -5.60% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -3.98%. Year-to-date (YTD), AFL shares are showing a performance of -3.47% which increased to 21.20% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $64.10 but also hit the highest price of $86.26 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Aflac Inc. shares is 2.23 million. The stock is currently trading -5.88% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -2.68% for SMA50 and it goes to 0.98% higher than SMA200.
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Aflac Inc. (NYSE: AFL) currently have 578.48M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 60.30% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $45.83B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.92. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 10.28, while it has posted earnings per share of $7.75 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.39 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.34. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for AFL, volatility over the week remained 2.26% while standing at 1.61% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Aflac Inc. (AFL) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $1.59 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is $1.62 and it is $6.92 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target $1.52 which is $1.64 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of $1.55 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 3.17% while it is estimated to increase by 7.29% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 7.40% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 15.60% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Evercore ISI on January 04, 2024 offering an Underperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $76 and $78 to it. Coverage by Morgan Stanley stated Aflac Inc. (AFL) stock as an Equal-weight in their note to investors on August 18, 2023, suggesting a price target of $75 for the stock. On June 05, 2023, BofA Securities Resumed their recommendations, while on April 25, 2023, Wells Fargo Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $73. Stock get a Neutral rating from Citigroup on May 24, 2022.
