Aflac Inc (AFL) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $103.08, with 4.4 million shares of worth about $453.34 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 4.54% during that period and on February 06, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -3.92%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 549.96M shares, out of which, 499.16M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -4.78% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 1.27%. Year-to-date (YTD), AFL shares are showing a performance of -0.35% which increased to 35.05% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $75.69 but also hit the highest price of $115.50 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Aflac Inc shares is 1.88 million. The stock is currently trading -2.32% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -2.41% for SMA50 and it goes to 2.17% higher than SMA200.
Aflac Inc (NYSE: AFL) currently have 549.96M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 59.29% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $57.26B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.93. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 10.73, while it has posted earnings per share of $9.60 in the same period. Its PEG reads 7.83 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.30. 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 1.82% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -3.60% while it is estimated to increase by 5.07% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 1.37% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 16.82% 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 BMO Capital Markets on January 23, 2025 offering a Market perform rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $111 to it. Coverage by TD Cowen stated Aflac Inc (AFL) stock as a Hold in their note to investors on October 09, 2024, suggesting a price target of $102 for the stock. On September 05, 2024, Barclays Initiated their recommendations, while on January 04, 2024, Evercore ISI Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $78. Stock get an Equal-weight rating from Morgan Stanley on August 18, 2023.
