Unitedhealth Group Inc (NYSE:UNH) has a beta value of 0.46 and has seen 2.61 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $266.49B, closed the recent trade at $293.77 per share which meant it gained $2.06 on the day or 0.70% during that session. The UNH stock price is -114.7% off its 52-week high price of $630.73 and 15.28% above the 52-week low of $248.88. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 11.56 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 18.18 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that Unitedhealth Group Inc (UNH) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 1.90. 2 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 1 rate it as Overweight. 2 out of 28 have rated it as a Hold, with 23 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight.
Unitedhealth Group Inc (NYSE:UNH) trade information
Sporting 0.70% in the green today, the stock has traded in the red over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the UNH stock price touched $293.77 or saw a rise of 3.66%. Year-to-date, Unitedhealth Group Inc shares have moved -42.57%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -3.02%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Unitedhealth Group Inc (NYSE:UNH) have changed -6.30%. Short interest in the company has seen 11.75 million shares shorted with days to cover at 0.39.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $367, which means that the shares’ value could jump 19.95% from the levels at last check today.. The projected low price target is $270.0 while the price target rests at a high of $575.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -95.73% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock lose 8.09% from the levels at last check today..
Unitedhealth Group Inc (UNH) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have lost -45.71% over the past 6 months.
If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was 1.60% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest -22.76% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 0.50%.
UNH Dividends
Unitedhealth Group Inc is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Apr-17 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 8.51 at a share yield of 2.90%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months, with a 5 Year Average Dividend Yield of 1.4%.
Unitedhealth Group Inc (NYSE:UNH)’s Major holders
Insiders own 0.25% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 91.23% with a share float percentage of 91.46%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Unitedhealth Group Inc having a total of 4586.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 83.95 million shares worth more than $42.75 billion. As of 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC held 9.1149% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., with the holding of over 73.43 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $37.39 billion and represent 7.9727% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund . As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 3.21% shares in the company for having 29.07 shares of worth $8.51 billion while later fund manager owns 25.57 shares of worth $7.48 billion as of Mar 31, 2025 , which makes it owner of about 2.82% of company’s outstanding stock.
