Some Investing Thoughts On Manulife Financial Corp (NYSE: MFC)

Manulife Financial Corp (MFC) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $27.30, with 3.94 million shares of worth about $107.52 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -8.45% during that period and on April 10, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -6.31%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 1.73B shares, out of which, 1.72B shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of -10.87% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -6.67%. Year-to-date (YTD), MFC shares are showing a performance of -11.10% which increased to 10.71% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $22.61 but also hit the highest price of $33.07 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Manulife Financial Corp shares is 2.54 million. The stock is currently trading -9.18% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -8.87% for SMA50 and it goes to -6.72% lower than SMA200.

Manulife Financial Corp (NYSE: MFC) currently have 1.73B outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 51.49% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $47.04B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.99. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 13.14, while it has posted earnings per share of $2.08 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.95 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.28. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for MFC, volatility over the week remained 7.80% while standing at 3.79% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 6.04% while it is estimated to increase by 9.17% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 6.73% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -0.08% made by the stock over the past 5-years.

Stock get a Neutral rating from Credit Suisse on January 12, 2023.

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