Aflac Inc (NYSE:AFL)’s traded shares stood at 0.97 million during the latest session, with the company’s beta value hitting 0.83. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $104.34, to imply a decrease of -3.99% or -$4.34 in intraday trading. The AFL share’s 52-week high remains $115.50, putting it -10.7% down since that peak but still an impressive 22.76% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $80.59. The company has a valuation of $56.95B, with an average of 1.85 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 2.11 million shares over the past 3 months.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Hold for Aflac Inc (AFL), translating to a mean rating of 3.06. Of 5 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give AFL a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 3 advise Hold as 2 recommend it as a Buy.
Aflac Inc (NYSE:AFL) trade information
After registering a -3.99% downside in the latest session, Aflac Inc (AFL) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -4.40%, and -7.21% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is 0.87%. Short interest in Aflac Inc (NYSE:AFL) saw shorts transact 8.49 million shares and set a 3.73 days time to cover.
The extremes give us $102 and $102 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, AFL has been trading 2.24% off suggested target high and 2.24% from its likely low.
An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings grew an estimated 16.83% for the past 5-year period. While 2025 is set for a -6.26% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 1.30% annually.
AFL Dividends
Aflac Inc has its next earnings report out on 2025-Apr-29. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. Aflac Inc has a forward dividend ratio of 2.08, with the share yield ticking at 1.99% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 2.3%.
Aflac Inc (NYSE:AFL)’s Major holders
Aflac Inc insiders hold 10.32% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 60.13% of the shares at 67.05% float percentage. In total, 60.13% institutions holds shares in the company, led by JAPAN POST HOLDINGS CO., LTD.. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 52.3 million shares (or 9.2636% of shares), all amounting to roughly $4.67 billion.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 51.2 million shares, or about 9.0685% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $4.57 billion.
We also have VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Aflac Inc (AFL) shares. Going by data provided on Dec 31, 2024 , VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund holds roughly 17.41 shares. This is just over 3.19% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $1.82 billion. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 13.53, or 2.48% of the shares, all valued at about 1.41 billion.
