The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. (NYSE:HIG) price on Friday, March 17, fall -4.23% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $65.72.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $68.62, moving within a range at $65.44 and $67.89. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.89 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 12.05. Turning to its 52-week performance, $79.44 and $60.17 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, HIG moved -15.53% over the past month.
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The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.’s market cap currently stands at around $21.13 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for Apr 26, 2023 – May 01, 2023. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 1.70, with its dividend yield at 2.59%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report. Analysts project the company’s earnings per share (EPS) to be $2.06, which has seen fiscal year 2023 EPS growth forecast to increase to $8.45 and about $9.65 for fiscal year 2024. Per the data, EPS growth is expected to be 11.80% for 2023 and 14.20% for the next financial year.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of $5.96 billion for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of $5.9 billion and $6.05 billion respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 10.40% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue for 2023 to grow to $23.53 billion, representing a 5.20% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Revisions could be used as tool to get short term price movement insight, and for the company that in the past seven days was 6 upward and no downward review(s). Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that HIG is a 50% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Sell category.
The technical evaluation for the stock shows the PEG ratio is 0.95, with HIG’s current price about -11.92% and -13.20% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 30.19, while 7-day volatility ratio is 3.92% and 2.45% in the 30-day chart. Further, The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. (HIG) has a beta value of 0.88, and an average true range (ATR) of 2.16.
In the market, a comparison of The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. (HIG) and its peers suggest the former has performed considerably weaker. Data shows HIG’s intraday price has changed -4.23% in last session and -5.76% over the past year. Comparatively, BlackRock Inc. (BLK) has moved -0.04% on the day and only -12.91% in the past 12 months. Looking at another peer, we see that T. Rowe Price Group Inc. (TROW) price has gained 0.02% on the day. However, the stock is -25.48% off its price a year ago. Moreover, American International Group Inc. (AIG) is also down -5.88% in trading on the day while keeping a a downtrend of -20.98% over the past year. If we look at the PE ratio, we find that The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.’s ratio stands at 12.05 compared to BlackRock Inc.’s 18.75 and T. Rowe Price Group Inc.’s 16.18. Elsewhere, the overall performance for the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial shows that the indexes are down -1.10% and -1.19% respectively in the last trading.
If we refocus on The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. (NYSE:HIG), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 2.8 million over the past 10 days and 1.82 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 317.30 million shares.
The 0.20% of The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 93.60% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 3.24 million on Jan 12, 2023, giving us a short ratio of 2.14. The data shows that as of Jan 12, 2023 short interest in The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. (HIG) stood at 1.02% of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 3.2 million registered in Dec 14, 2022. Current price change has pushed the stock -13.33% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the HIG stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
