Humana Inc (NYSE: HUM) is 12.57% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $213.31 and a high of $406.46 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 HUM stock was last observed hovering at around $286.78 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -1.17%.
Currently trading at $285.61, the stock is 4.56% and 7.23% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.34 million and changing -0.41% at the moment leaves the stock -3.98% off its SMA200. HUM registered -9.23% loss for a year compared to 6-month gain of 6.73%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $266.3632 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $297.44055.
The stock witnessed a 5.87% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 2.19%, and is 0.03% 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 4.23% over the week and 3.77% over the month.
Humana Inc (HUM) has around 65680 employees, a market worth around $34.47B and $117.76B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 28.68 and Fwd P/E is 20.05. Profit margin for the company is 1.02%. Distance from 52-week low is 33.89% and -29.73% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (4.32%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 0.84% this year
1283.0 institutions hold shares in Humana Inc (HUM), with institutional investors hold 97.88% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 120.64M, and float is at 120.43M with Short Float at 3.04%. Institutions hold 97.69% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is BLACKROCK INC. with over 10.97 million shares valued at $4.1 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 9.1117 of the HUM Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 11.0 million shares valued at $4.11 billion to account for 9.0892 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are STATE STREET CORP which holds 5.3 million shares representing 4.4038 and valued at over $1.99 billion, while WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT GROUP LLP holds 3.819 of the shares totaling 4.6 million with a market value of $1.72 billion.
Humana Inc (HUM) Insider Activity
Still, SEC filings show that on Dec 31 ’24, Huval Timothy S. (Chief Administrative Officer) disposed off 3,703 shares at an average price of $256.26 for $0.95 million. The insider now directly holds 8,181 shares of Humana Inc (HUM).
