Unum Group Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:UNM)

Unum Group trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "UNM."

Unum Group announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, October 15th. Investors of record on Monday, October 28th will be paid a dividend of $0.285 per share on Friday, November 15th. This represents a $1.14 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.94%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, October 25th. View Unum Group's Dividend History.

Unum Group declared that its board has authorized a share repurchase program on Thursday, May 24th 2018, which permits the company to repurchase $750,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to repurchase up to 8.7% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are generally an indication that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

Unum Group (NYSE:UNM) posted its earnings results on Tuesday, July, 30th. The financial services provider reported $1.36 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.34 by $0.02. The financial services provider earned $3.02 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.99 billion. Unum Group had a return on equity of 12.90% and a net margin of 4.46%. Unum Group's revenue for the quarter was up 4.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the business posted $1.30 earnings per share. View Unum Group's Earnings History.

Unum Group is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, October 29th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Unum Group.

Unum Group will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, October 29th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Unum Group issued an update on its FY 2019 earnings guidance on Tuesday, July, 30th. The company provided EPS guidance of $5.41-5.56 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $5.43.

5 equities research analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Unum Group's shares. Their predictions range from $32.00 to $45.00. On average, they expect Unum Group's stock price to reach $37.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 29.6% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Unum Group.

5 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Unum Group in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Unum Group.

News coverage about UNM stock has been trending extremely negative on Tuesday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Unum Group earned a coverage optimism score of -4.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the financial services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Unum Group.

Some companies that are related to Unum Group include Metlife (MET), AFLAC (AFL), Prudential Financial (PRU), Principal Financial Group (PFG), Lincoln National (LNC), Primerica (PRI), CNO Financial Group (CNO), American Equity Investment Life (AEL), FBL Financial Group (FFG), National Western Life Group (NWLI), Independence (IHC), Health Insurance Innovations (HIIQ), Citizens (CIA) and Kansas City Life Insurance (KCLI).

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Unum Group's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. (0.54%), Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank (0.07%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.07%), Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL (0.06%), Northpointe Capital LLC (0.04%) and Patten & Patten Inc. TN (0.04%). Company insiders that own Unum Group stock include Breege A Farrell, Christopher J Jerome, Daniel Jason Waxenberg, E Michael Caulfield, Gloria C Larson, John F Mcgarry, Lisa G Iglesias, Michael Q Simonds and Timothy Gerald Arnold. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Unum Group.

UNM stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Strs Ohio, Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Patten & Patten Inc. TN, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Oakbrook Investments LLC, Peddock Capital Advisors LLC and CX Institutional. View Insider Buying and Selling for Unum Group.

UNM stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL, Northpointe Capital LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank , Zeke Capital Advisors LLC, Wealthfront Advisers LLC and Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Unum Group.

Shares of UNM can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of UNM stock can currently be purchased for approximately $28.94.

Unum Group has a market capitalization of $6.04 billion and generates $11.60 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $523.40 million in net income (profit) each year or $5.20 on an earnings per share basis. Unum Group employs 9,600 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Unum Group.

The official website for Unum Group is http://www.unum.com/.

Unum Group's mailing address is 1 FOUNTAIN SQUARE, CHATTANOOGA TN, 37402. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 423-294-1011 or via email at [email protected]