Aon plc (NYSE: AON) is 12.50% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $268.06 and a high of $412.97 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The AON stock was last observed hovering at around $404.68 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.61%.
Currently trading at $404.07, the stock is 2.61% and 7.77% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.46 million and changing -0.15% at the moment leaves the stock 17.09% off its SMA200. AON registered 28.59% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 17.56%.
The stock witnessed a 7.79% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 3.20%, and is 1.21% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 2.23% over the week and 1.55% over the month.
Aon plc (AON) has around 60000 employees, a market worth around $87.28B and $15.75B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 31.92 and Fwd P/E is 20.92. Profit margin for the company is 16.85%. Distance from 52-week low is 50.74% and -2.16% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (11.50%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 10.00% this year
The shares outstanding are 216.00M, and float is at 209.08M with Short Float at 2.42%.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 19.31 million shares valued at $5.67 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 9.6975 of the AON Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 15.27 million shares valued at $4.48 billion to account for 7.6677 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are MASSACHUSETTS FINANCIAL SERVICES CO /MA/ which holds 12.55 million shares representing 5.9071 and valued at over $3.69 billion, while CAPITAL WORLD INVESTORS holds 5.6644 of the shares totaling 12.04 million with a market value of $3.53 billion.
Aon plc (AON) Insider Activity
A total of 0 insider transactions have happened at Aon plc (AON) in the last six months, with sales accounting for 0 and purchases happening 0 times.
Aon plc disclosed in a document filed with the SEC on Nov 27 ’24 that Simon Mindy F. (Chief Operating Officer) sold a total of 650 shares of the company’s common stock. The trade occurred on Nov 27 ’24 and was made at $394.34 per share for $0.26 million. Following the transaction, the insider now directly holds 1816.0 shares of the AON stock.
Still, SEC filings show that on Nov 26 ’24, Stevens Lisa (Chief Administrative Officer) disposed off 1,275 shares at an average price of $387.68 for $0.49 million. The insider now directly holds 8,077 shares of Aon plc (AON).
Aon plc (AON): Who are the competitors?
One of the company’s main competitors (and peers) include Autoliv Inc. (ALV) that is trading -16.93% down over the past 12 months.Marsh & McLennan Cos. (MMC) lies in the list of competitors of the Aon plc and is 16.77% higher over the same period from AONCapstone Copper Corp. (CS) is 13.03% up on the 1-year trading charts.
