In the last trading session, 11.43 million Unitedhealth Group Inc (NYSE:UNH) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.45. With the company’s per share price at $303.19 changed hands at -$0.03 or -0.01% during last session, the market valuation stood at $275.04B. UNH’s last price was a discount, traded about -108.03% off its 52-week high of $630.73. The share price had its 52-week low at $248.88, which suggests the last value was 17.91% up since then. When we look at Unitedhealth Group Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 15.02 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 14.90 million.
Analysts gave the Unitedhealth Group Inc (UNH) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.83. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 2 out of 28 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 1 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 2 recommended UNH as a Hold, 23 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.
Unitedhealth Group Inc (NYSE:UNH) trade information
Instantly UNH was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action -0.50%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -40.06%, with the 5-day performance at -0.50% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Unitedhealth Group Inc (NYSE:UNH) is -21.36% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 11.11 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 0.6 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 360, meaning bulls need an upside of 15.78% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, UNH’s forecast low is 270 with 575 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -89.65% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 10.95% for it to hit the projected low.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 1.60%. The 2025 estimates are for Unitedhealth Group Inc earnings to decrease by -18.79%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 2.35% per year.
UNH Dividends
Unitedhealth Group Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Apr-16. The 2.77% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 8.40. It is important to note, however, that the 2.77% dividend yield ratio should serve as a guide only, as you should also take into consideration many other aspects of a company’s operations and fundamentals before making any investment decision. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 1.38 per year.
Unitedhealth Group Inc (NYSE:UNH)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 0.25% of Unitedhealth Group Inc shares while 91.35% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 91.58%. There are 91.35% institutions holding the Unitedhealth Group Inc stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 9.1149% of the shares, roughly 83.95 million UNH shares worth $42.75 billion.
BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 7.9727% or 73.43 million shares worth $37.39 billion as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Mar 31, 2025 were VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund . With 29.07 shares estimated at $8.82 billion under it, the former controlled 3.21% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund held about 2.82% of the shares, roughly 25.57 shares worth around $7.75 billion.
