Company name UnitedHealth Group Inc
Stock ticker UNH
Live stock price [stckqut]UNH[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Fair
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Poor
EBIT growth Good

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $280.47
Target stock price (averages with growth) $386.46
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $300.85
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $290.94

The following company description is from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-profile/unh

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated, incorporated on July 1, 2015, is a health and well-being company. The Company operates through four segments: UnitedHealthcare, OptumHealth, OptumInsight, and OptumRx. The Company conducts its operations through two business platforms: health benefits operating under UnitedHealthcare and health services operating under Optum. UnitedHealthcare provides healthcare benefits to an array of customers and markets, and includes UnitedHealthcare Employer & Individual, UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement, UnitedHealthcare Community & State, and UnitedHealthcare Global businesses. Optum is a health services business serving the healthcare marketplace, including payers, care providers, employers, governments, life sciences companies and consumers, through its OptumHealth, OptumInsight and OptumRx businesses.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in UnitedHealth Group Inc as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable.

If you would like to understand how to evaluate companies like I do on this site, please read my book, The Confident Investor. You can review the best companies that I have found (and I probably invest my own money in most of these companies) in my Watch List.

How was this analysis of UnitedHealth Group Inc calculated?

For owners of my book, “The Confident Investor” I offer the following analysis (you must be logged in to this site as a book owner in order to see the following analysis). If you have registered and cannot see the balance of this article, make sure you are logged in and refresh your browser.
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In order to assist you in using the techniques of this book, the values that I used when calculating the Manual pricing above were:

  • Stock price at the time of the calculation: $247.48
  • Growth: 0.14
  • Current EPS (TTM): $10.14
  • P/E: 24
  • Future EPS Calc: $19.52
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $468.56
  • Target stock price: $290.94

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I hope that this makes you a Confident Investor.

Company name UnitedHealth Group Inc
Stock ticker UNH
Live stock price [stckqut]UNH[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Fair

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Fair
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Poor
EBIT growth Good

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $270.04
Target stock price (averages with growth) $372.09
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $289.64
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $557.21

 

The following company description is from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-profile/unh

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated, incorporated on July 1, 2015, is a health and well-being company. The Company operates through four segments: UnitedHealthcare, OptumHealth, OptumInsight, and OptumRx. The Company conducts its operations through two business platforms: health benefits operating under UnitedHealthcare and health services operating under Optum. UnitedHealthcare provides healthcare benefits to an array of customers and markets, and includes UnitedHealthcare Employer & Individual, UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement, UnitedHealthcare Community & State, and UnitedHealthcare Global businesses. Optum is a health services business serving the healthcare marketplace, including payers, care providers, employers, governments, life sciences companies and consumers, through its OptumHealth, OptumInsight and OptumRx businesses.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in UnitedHealth Group Inc as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable. I will be adding UNH to my Watch List.

If you would like to understand how to evaluate companies like I do on this site, please read my book, The Confident Investor. You can review the best companies that I have found (and I probably invest my own money in most of these companies) in my Watch List.

How was this analysis of UnitedHealth Group Inc calculated?

For owners of my book, “The Confident Investor” I offer the following analysis (you must be logged in to this site as a book owner in order to see the following analysis). If you have registered and cannot see the balance of this article, make sure you are logged in and refresh your browser.
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In order to assist you in using the techniques of this book, the values that I used when calculating the Manual pricing above were:

  • Stock price at the time of the calculation: $238.28
  • Growth: 0.15
  • Current EPS (TTM): $10.14
  • P/E: 44
  • Future EPS Calc: $20.39
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $897.38
  • Target stock price: $557.2

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I hope that this makes you a Confident Investor.