Unum Group (UNM) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $64.39, with 3.45 million shares of worth about $222.07 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 24.14% during that period and on October 30, 2024 the price saw a gain of about 4.48%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 193.37M shares, out of which, 184.17M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 1.51% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 9.36%. Year-to-date (YTD), UNM shares are showing a performance of 42.39% which increased to 32.03% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $41.75 but also hit the highest price of $64.52 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Unum Group shares is 1.17 million. The stock is currently trading 3.09% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 9.93% for SMA50 and it goes to 21.25% higher than SMA200.
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Unum Group (NYSE: UNM) currently have 193.37M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 88.78% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $11.96B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.76. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 6.97, while it has posted earnings per share of $9.24 in the same period. Its PEG reads 0.87 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.32. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for UNM, volatility over the week remained 1.82% while standing at 1.66% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Unum Group (UNM) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 2.12 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 2.18 and it is 8.95 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 2.02 which is 2.2 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 1.79 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 11.29% while it is estimated to increase by 5.55% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 8.00% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 22.26% 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 Barclays on September 05, 2024 offering an Overweight rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $73 to it. Coverage by Piper Sandler stated Unum Group (UNM) stock as an Overweight in their note to investors on July 11, 2024, suggesting a price target of $57 for the stock. On January 03, 2024, JP Morgan Upgrade their recommendations, while on April 25, 2023, Wells Fargo Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $57. Stock get a Buy rating from Jefferies on March 20, 2023.
