In recent trading session, Humana Inc (NYSE:HUM) saw 1.06 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 0.43. Company’s recent per share price level of $214.85 trading at -$15.62 or -6.78% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $25.93B. That most recent trading price of HUM’s stock is at a discount of -89.18% from its 52-week high price of $406.46 and is indicating a premium of 0.72% from its 52-week low price of $213.31. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 1.67 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 1.66 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Humana Inc (HUM), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 2.44. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 18 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 7 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 11 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
Humana Inc (NYSE:HUM) trade information
Upright in the red during last session for losing -6.78%, in the last five days HUM remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Monday, 05/12/25 when the stock touched $214.85 price level, adding 15.94% to its value on the day. Humana Inc’s shares saw a change of -15.32% in year-to-date performance and have moved -15.20% in past 5-day. Humana Inc (NYSE:HUM) showed a performance of -25.08% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 3.09 million shares which calculate 1.6 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 248 to the stock, which implies a rise of 13.37% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 248 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 248. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -15.43% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -15.43% for stock’s current value.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of -13.05% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 0.89% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 10.84%.
HUM Dividends
Humana Inc is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Apr-29 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 1.65%, the share has a forward dividend of 3.54 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 0.77%.
Humana Inc (NYSE:HUM)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 0.20% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 94.56 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 94.76%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 94.56% institutions for Humana Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at HUM for having 11.0 million shares of worth $4.11 billion. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 9.1294 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 10.97 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 9.1117 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $4.1 billion.
On the other hand, Dodge & Cox Funds-Dodge & Cox Stock Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Dec 31, 2024 , the former fund manager was holding 6.82 shares of worth $1.46 billion or 5.65% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 3.77 shares on Dec 31, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $805.78 million in the company or a holder of 3.12% of company’s stock.
