Prudential Financial Inc (NYSE: PRU) is -10.37% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $90.38 and a high of $130.55 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will make a comeback and enjoy potential growth. Why not look at analysts view on what the future holds for the stock. The PRU stock was last observed hovering at around $106.30 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -104.42%.
Currently trading at $1.88M, the stock is 0.94% and 1.76% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.31 million and changing 1311782% at the moment leaves the stock -7.65% off its SMA200. PRU registered -10.98% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -8.62%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $103.6932 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $114.25705.
The stock witnessed a 3.53% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -7.73%, and is 2.06% 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 0.82% over the week and 1.10% over the month.
Prudential Financial Inc (PRU) has around 38196 employees, a market worth around $37.35B and $60.37B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 16.70 and Fwd P/E is 7.15. Profit margin for the company is 3.76%. Distance from 52-week low is 16.75% and -19.17% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (4.46%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 8.52% this year
1740.0 institutions hold shares in Prudential Financial Inc (PRU), with institutional investors hold 61.58% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 354.01M, and float is at 353.23M with Short Float at 1.95%. Institutions hold 61.47% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 41.64 million shares valued at $4.88 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 11.6051 of the PRU Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 31.4 million shares valued at $3.68 billion to account for 8.7523 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are STATE STREET CORP which holds 16.96 million shares representing 4.7261 and valued at over $1.99 billion, while GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC holds 2.3191 of the shares totaling 8.32 million with a market value of $972.59 million.
Prudential Financial Inc (PRU) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider purchase by PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE CO OF AME, the company’s 10% Owner. SEC filings show that PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE CO OF AME bought 1,675,978 shares of the company’s common stock on Jun 16 ’25 at a price of $28.64 per share for a total of $48.0 million. Following the purchase, the insider now owns 3.17 million shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Mar 26 ’25, PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE CO OF AME (10% Owner) acquired 721,732 shares at an average price of $24.94 for $18.0 million. The insider now directly holds 5,656,908 shares of Prudential Financial Inc (PRU).
