UnitedHealth Group Inc ($UNH) Possible Buy to $265 Confident Investor Rating: Good
Company name | UnitedHealth Group Inc |
Stock ticker | UNH |
Live stock price | [stckqut]UNH[/stckqut] |
P/E compared to competitors | Good |
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) | $265.24 |
Target stock price (averages with growth) | $94.52 |
Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $277.76 |
Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $267.79 |
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.
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How was this analysis of UnitedHealth Group Inc calculated?
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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: $248.76
- Growth: 0.12
- Current EPS (TTM): $12.88
- P/E: 19
- Future EPS Calc: $22.69
- Future Stock Price Calc: $431.28
- Target stock price: $267.79
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