Aflac (AFL) Stock Price, News & Analysis

12 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Aflac in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 8 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" AFL shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in AFL, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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12 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for Aflac's stock. Their AFL share price targets range from $74.00 to $95.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $82.38 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 7.2%.
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Aflac's stock was trading at $82.50 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, AFL stock has increased by 7.6% and is now trading at $88.79.
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Aflac saw a increase in short interest in the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 14,820,000 shares, an increase of 16.0% from the April 30th total of 12,780,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,200,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 6.7 days. Approximately 2.9% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, August 6th 2024.
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Aflac Incorporated (NYSE:AFL) posted its quarterly earnings data on Monday, May, 6th. The financial services provider reported $1.66 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.58 by $0.08. The financial services provider earned $5.44 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $4.09 billion. Aflac had a net margin of 27.67% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 16.88%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 13.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $1.55 EPS.
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Aflac declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, May 1st. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, May 22nd will be paid a dividend of $0.50 per share on Monday, June 3rd. This represents a $2.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.25%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, May 21st. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.42.
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Aflac (NYSE:AFL) pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.26%. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 22.08%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, AFL will have a dividend payout ratio of 28.99% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Aflac (NYSE:AFL) stock in their portfolio include iShares U.S. Insurance ETF (IAK), 2ndVote Society Defended ETF (EGIS), AdvisorShares Focused Equity ETF (CWS), BrandywineGLOBALDynamic US Large Cap Value ETF (DVAL), Core Alternative ETF (CCOR), SmartETFs Dividend Builder ETF (DIVS), SmartETFs Asia Pacific Dividend Builder ETF (ADIV) and VictoryShares US Multi-Factor Minimum Volatility ETF (VSMV).

Aflac's stock split on Monday, March 19th 2018. The 2-1 split was announced on Tuesday, February 13th 2018. The newly issued shares were payable to shareholders after the closing bell on Friday, March 16th 2018. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

Aflac declared that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock repurchase program on Tuesday, November 8th 2022, which authorizes the company to repurchase 100,000,000 outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are usually a sign that the company's board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

435 employees have rated Aflac Chief Executive Officer Dan Amos on Glassdoor.com. Dan Amos has an approval rating of 93% among the company's employees. This puts Dan Amos in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies. 68.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Aflac to a friend.

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Aflac's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (9.10%), LSV Asset Management (0.79%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.66%), Guinness Asset Management LTD (0.38%), ProShare Advisors LLC (0.37%) and Nordea Investment Management AB (0.31%). Insiders that own company stock include Albert Riggieri, Arthur Reginald Collins, Audrey B Tillman, Barbara K Rimer, Charles D Lake II, Eric M Kirsch, Frederick John Crawford, James Todd Daniels, Joseph L Moskowitz, June P Howard, Karole Lloyd, Masatoshi Koide, Steven Kent Beaver, Teresa L White, Thomas J Kenny, Toshihiko Fukuzawa, Virgil Raynard Miller and William P Bowers.
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