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Ibex Wealth Advisors Invests $640,000 in Aflac Incorporated: Analysts Predict Future Price Movement

Elaine Mendonça by Elaine Mendonça
April 27, 2023
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On April 26, 2023, Ibex Wealth Advisors announced that it has invested a sizable sum, amounting to $640,000 in the financial services provider, Aflac Incorporated (NYSE:AFL). This investment marks Ibex Wealth Advisor’s first-time purchase of shares in the renowned company.

Aflac stands out as a holding company that specializes in providing financial protection services. The firm operates through two key segments: the Aflac Japan segment and the Aflac United States (U.S.) segment. The former offers life insurance and other death benefits while also providing cash surrender values. Meanwhile, the latter sells voluntary supplemental insurance products for individuals already under major medical or primary insurance coverage.

Investment analysts have been closely monitoring AFL’s performance and have considered various factors in predicting its future price movement. In this regard, several brokerages have given their bold insights concerning AFL stocks. Morgan Stanley, for instance, gave an “overweight” rating to the company but decreased their price objective from $77.00 to $72.00 in a report published on April 12th.

Coincidentally on Tuesday, Wells Fargo & Company began coverage of Aflac with an “equal weight” rating and pegged the company’s price objective at $73.00 per share. Meanwhile, Raymond James gave AFL an “outperform” rating but raised its target price only slightly from $74.00 to $77.00 in their January 30th report.

Additionally, JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s report released on Friday, January 6th upscaled Aflac’s target price from $62.00 to $66 per share with a “neutral” rating by market performers while StockNews.com’s March 16th hold ratings confirm AFL’s continued dominance among traders and investors.

According to Bloomberg.com data on consensus ratings for Aflac stock holdings suggest a prevailing recommendation of hold. A consensus price target of $71.33 also aligns with recommendations for traders to observe stock movements and make informed voting decisions based on them.

Given the firm’s previous performance, analysts have every reason to trust that trading in AFL will yield favorable gains regardless of their investment styles or preferences – bullish or bearish.

Institutional Investors and Directors Make Moves in Aflac, Inc.



Aflac, Inc: Institutional Investors and Directors Make Moves

Aflac, Inc. has recently seen movements by several hedge funds and other institutional investors as well as two of its Directors. Panagora Asset Management Inc., for instance, increased its holdings in Aflac by 36.2% during the 1st quarter by acquiring an additional 6,369 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $1,542,000, amounting to a total of 23,941 shares now owned by Panagora. Similarly, Blair William & Co. IL acquired an additional 1,102 shares in the same quarter valued at $1,112,000 now bringing Blair’s share to 17,268 shares of Aflac.

Aviva PLC also contributed to increasing Aflac’s holdings when they lifted their stake in shares of Aflac by 0.7% during the first quarter after purchasing an additional 1,503 shares during the period which raised their overall share to a total value of $13.5 million. Dakota Wealth Management also established a new position in shares of Aflac back in the first quarter valued at about $428k.

Sequoia Financial Advisors LLC also comes onboard with these institutional investors lifting their stake by 7.3% and purchasing an additional 417 shares during the period which now raises Sequoia Financial Advisors LLC chare value to approximately $396k.

Interestingly though some insiders have been selling out their shares such as Director Masatoshi Koide who sold 19,291 shares on Tuesday February14th at an average price of $70.36 for a total transaction value of $1.35M thereby decreasing his direct ownership in the company from approximately $.6.16M to $6.16M.The SEC has already acknowledged and filed this disclosure for public consumption on its website accessible through www.website.sec.com.

Another director, Joseph L. Moskowitz sold 500 shares of Aflac stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, April 3rd at an average price of $64.45, now bringing his ownership value to $1,241,887.05 from the previous almost $1.25M during the said transaction.

Aflac Inc., a holding company providing financial protection services through its two branches Aflac Japan and Aflac US scores an interesting market cap of $40.27B on Wednesday’s trading session which saw it open at a trading price of around $65.77 making its fifty-two week low stand at roughly $52.07 with a high of about $$74.01 during the same period.

In February this year, Aflac reported Quarterly earnings results for Q4 2022 wherein they had $1.29 earnings per share for the quarter and had revenue of around $4.01B which however was down by 26.2% as compared to the prior year’s same quarter when Aflac had posted $1.28 earnings per share.This report prompted various reactions from Equities research analysts who forecasted that Aflac will post approximately 5.59 earnings per share for the current fiscal year given its earlier movements.

As it currently stands now over two-thirds (66%)of AFL stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds giving an aura of diversity in ownership which could go a long way in theming up better performance evaluations both operation wise and numerically.Subsequently traders looking into buying into new positions or selling out existing ones have more information than ever to enable their financial decision-making choices whether bulk or marginal.As always with stocks as intriguing as AFL,it’s always up to such players how well they choose their trades/actions!

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