The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility.
The company has a good ESG score relative to its sector, according to Refinitiv.
Highlights: UnitedHealth Group Inc.
Analysts have a positive opinion on this stock. Average consensus recommends overweighting or purchasing the stock.
The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been strongly revised upwards over the last four months.
The opinion of analysts covering the stock has improved over the past four months.
Over the past twelve months, analysts' opinions have been strongly revised upwards.
There is high visibility into the group's activities for the coming years. Outlooks on future revenues from analysts covering the equity remain similar. Such hardly dispersed estimates support highly predictable sales for the current and upcoming fiscal years.
Analysts' price targets are all relatively close, reflecting good visibility on the company's valuation.
Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.
Weaknesses: UnitedHealth Group Inc.
As a percentage of sales and without taking into account depreciation and amortization, the company has relatively low margins.
The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 35.55 times its estimated earnings per share for the ongoing year.
In relation to the value of its tangible assets, the company's valuation appears relatively high.
The firm pays small or no dividend to shareholders. For that reason, it is not a yield company.
For the last 12 months, analysts have been regularly downgrading their EPS expectations. Analysts predict worse results for the company against their predictions a year ago.
For the last few months, analysts have been revising downwards their earnings forecast.