Unitedhealth Group Inc (NYSE:UNH)’s traded shares stood at 15.6 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 0.45. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $318.50, to imply an increase of 2.56% or $7.94 in intraday trading. The UNH share’s 52-week high remains $630.73, putting it -98.03% down since that peak but still an impressive 21.86% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $248.88. The company has a valuation of $288.92B, with an average of 13.97 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 15.26 million shares over the past 3 months.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Unitedhealth Group Inc (UNH), translating to a mean rating of 1.86. Of 28 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 2 analyst(s) give UNH a Sell rating. 1 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 2 advise Hold as 23 recommend it as a Buy.
Unitedhealth Group Inc (NYSE:UNH) trade information
After registering a 2.56% upside in the last session, Unitedhealth Group Inc (UNH) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 7.66%, and 2.29% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -37.04%. Short interest in Unitedhealth Group Inc (NYSE:UNH) saw shorts transact 10.84 million shares and set a 0.38 days time to cover.
The extremes give us $270 and $575 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, UNH has been trading -80.53% off suggested target high and 15.23% from its likely low.
An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings grew an estimated 1.60% for the past 5-year period. While 2025 is set for a -19.48% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 2.41% annually.
UNH Dividends
Unitedhealth Group Inc has its next earnings report out on 2025-Apr-16. 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. Unitedhealth Group Inc has a forward dividend ratio of 8.40, with the share yield ticking at 2.64% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 1.38%.
Unitedhealth Group Inc (NYSE:UNH)’s Major holders
Unitedhealth Group Inc insiders hold 0.25% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 91.35% of the shares at 91.58% float percentage. In total, 91.35% institutions holds shares in the company, led by VANGUARD GROUP INC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 83.95 million shares (or 9.1149% of shares), all amounting to roughly $42.75 billion.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is BLACKROCK INC. with 73.43 million shares, or about 7.9727% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $37.39 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 Unitedhealth Group Inc (UNH) shares. Going by data provided on Mar 31, 2025 , VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund holds roughly 29.07 shares. This is just over 3.21% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $9.26 billion. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 25.57, or 2.82% of the shares, all valued at about 8.14 billion.
