Buy Cigna At A Discount [Seeking Alpha]
UnitedHealth Group Incorporated (DE) (UNH)
Last unitedhealth group incorporated (de) earnings: 4/15 05:55 am
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Buy Cigna At A Discount After UnitedHealth Group UNH Cigna Corporation CI Strong Q4 Results reported Cigna bought back $329 million (1.6 million units) of its shares in 2018. It bought back another 1.1 million shares (worth $2019 million) this past January, just as the stock rebounded from $180 to $200. At a recent closing price of ~$173, the buyback is a paper loss for the company until investors start accumulating the stock at current lows. The company forecast non-GAAP revenue will be as high as $133.5 billion and non-GAAP EPS of $16.00-$16.50 for 2019. This values CI stock as low as 10.5 times forward earnings. By contrast, UnitedHealth trades at 15.5 times forward P/E. Markets may favor UNH stock over CI because of the former’s focus on digitizing the business to help its customers save money. Cigna is also expanding and deepening its customer and client relationships across its bigger portfolio. The problem for investors is the company faces near-term execution risks on absorbin
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- UnitedHealth says Change hackers stole health data on ‘substantial proportion of people in America' [TechCrunch]TechCrunch
- UnitedHealth Group Updates on Change Healthcare Cyberattack [Yahoo! Finance]Yahoo! Finance
- UnitedHealth Group Updates on Change Healthcare CyberattackBusiness Wire
- Congress Has A Big Chance To Investigate A Financial Threat To Patients [Forbes]Forbes
- Cardinal Health says contracts with UnitedHealth's OptumRx will not be renewed [Yahoo! Finance]Yahoo! Finance
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- 4/16/24 - Beat
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Sec Filings
- 4/22/24 - Form DEFA14A
- 4/22/24 - Form DEF
- 4/17/24 - Form 8-K/A
- UNH's page on the SEC website