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UnitedHealth Group – Better than market estimates

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UnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE:UNH). Last Market Price: 44.71, Change: -1.89, % Change: (-4.06%). Shares trade in the range of 42.86 – 44.74 dollars. It has a market capitalization of 48.12B dollars, making it a Large Cap Stock and has 1.08B outstanding shares. The company has a beta of 0.93, indicating, the stock to be less volatile than the market. As per the most recent quarterly report, the net income per share (EPS) is 4.46; P/E of 10.02. It operates in Financial sector and belongs to Insurance (Accident and Health) industry. Percentage shares held by institutional investors is 88%. The company has a 52 week high of $ 53.50 and a 52 week low of $ 34.50. Average volumes of shares traded daily are 8,260,000. Volume traded in the last session was at 10,590,000, 1.28 times the average volume.

  • Reports Q3 (Sep)
    • EPS of $1.17 better than the estimates
    • Revenues rose 6.8% year/year to $25.28 billion
  • Company issues upside EPS guidance for FY11

For Q2 (Jun ’11), It had a Net profit margin of 5.02%, an Operating margin of 8.32%. Other Key stats and ratios are : Return on average assets of 7.73%, Return on average equity of 18.84%. The organization has an employee strength of 87,000

Consensus Recommendation is a Outperform.


Estimate for sales for the Year Ending Dec-11 show a mean of 101,302.00 million dollars, an estimate high of 104,360.00 million dollars and an estimate low of 95,826.00 million dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 98,602.20 million dollars.

Estimate for sales for the Year Ending Dec-12 show a mean of 108,105.00 million dollars, an estimate high of 111,779.00 million dollars and an estimate low of 105,846.00 million dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 104,012.00 million dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Year Ending Dec-11 show a mean of 4.32 dollars, an estimate high of 4.60 dollars and an estimate low of 3.29 dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 3.53 dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Year Ending Dec-12 show a mean of 4.72 dollars, an estimate high of 5.16 dollars and an estimate low of 3.43 dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 3.81 dollars.

Sales for Quarter Ending Jun-11 was estimated at 25,242.20 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 25,234.00 million dollars, 8.23 million dollars less than estimates.

Sales for Quarter Ending Mar-11 was estimated at 24,930.80 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 25,432.00 million dollars, 501.19 million dollars more than estimates.

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Post Written By: Ed Liston

Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing in his yacht.


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Ed Liston

Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing.

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