Currently, there are 910.22M common shares owned by the public and among those 908.27M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -3.62% and -26.15% over the past three months. UNH shares are trading -19.98% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -16.38% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $393.11 and touched a high of $630.73 over the same period. UNH has an average intraday trading volume of 6.53 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -15.92%, -17.50%, and -25.63% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Unitedhealth Group Inc (NYSE: UNH) shares accounts for 90.58% of the company’s 910.22M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $368.47B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.57. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 16.92, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $23.92. The company has a PEG of 2.22 and the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.88. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.90% over the week and 3.88% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -4.72%, and 14.65% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 7.61% over the next five years, compared to 1.60% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the UNH, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. HSBC Securities stated their Hold rating for the stock in a research note on April 22, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $490. HSBC Securities was of a view on January 10, 2025 that the stock is Buy, while Truist gave the stock Buy rating on January 06, 2025, issuing a price target of $625- $610. HSBC Securities on their part issued Hold rating on October 17, 2024.
