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Finance · ·
$95.19
▼ $0.43 (-0.4%)
Market data updated: 09/20 10:01 PM
Fundamentals updated: 09/20/2026
News analyzed: 09/20/2026
Market Cap
$15.07B
Day Range
$94.19 - $96.19
52-Week Range
$69.02 - $96.77
Beta
—
Next Earnings
03.11.2026
Support
$82.12
Resistance
$96.77
+24.8% (1Y)
Strengths: 12/27 factors positiveRisk: Medium
This score and all analysis on this page are for informational and educational purposes only and do not constitute investment advice. Read the full disclaimer
Weighted: Technical 25% · Fundamental 20% · Growth 15% · Valuation 15% · News 10% · Quality 10% · Risk 5%
Overall Score
🟡 Mixed
Technical Trend
🟢 Bullish
Insiders
🔴 Bearish
Computed directly from the same signals behind the score above — not AI-generated.
Biggest positive driver
Leverage risk
Debt/equity: 0.34
Risk
Biggest negative driver
DCF Fair Value
Estimated fair value: $30.31 vs. price $95.19 (-68.2%)
Fair Value
What to watch next
When today echoes the past.
NO RELIABLE ECHO FOUND
Only 2 historical analog(s) found after removing overlapping dates — too few for a statistically meaningful comparison.
Historical matches considered: 2
TIME ECHO identifies historical situations that resemble the current market state. Historical outcomes are not guarantees of future performance. Similarity does not imply causation, and results may change as new data becomes available.
🗓️ What Changed This Week
🌱 Building History
We don't have a real data point from a week ago for this stock yet. The weekly comparison will appear once enough history has accumulated.
📊 Score History
60
Today
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30D
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90D
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1Y
🐂🐻 Investment Thesis
🐂 Bull Case
🐻 Bear Case
🔍 What Could Prove This Wrong
This isn't a price-direction forecast — just a synthesis of real, already-computed data, and future conditions that could change the picture.
🧬 STOCK DNA
This stock's profile across 8 real dimensions — a research tool, not a recommendation
Growth
34
Quality
55
Value
38
Momentum
82
Risk
56
Sentiment
98
Fundamental
52
Institutional
0
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Recent media coverage of Unum Group highlights its strong financial performance and strategic shareholder-focused initiatives. The company’s stock has surged 268% since 2021, outperforming the S&P 500, while recent earnings reports and analyst optimism have driven further gains. Notably, Unum announced a $1 billion share repurchase program, reinforcing its commitment to capital returns and shareholder value. The company also participated in industry conferences, underscoring its leadership in the insurance sector.
AI summary based on English-language news sources only — not investment advice.
Everyone's writing about Unum Group. News trend score: 98. Reason: 9 of the last 20 articles are positive, versus 1 negative.
News trend analysis is based on article sentiment only, and is not investment advice or financial counsel. Read the full disclaimer
🌡️ Emotional Temperature
41
🎯 Conviction (vs. Emotion)
40
Psychology
67
Fundamentals
52
Technical
82
Valuation
38
The price is holding at a real, documented historical support/resistance level (a 50-day high or low).
The price rise has far outpaced the actual improvement in fundamental data.
The stock is moving in lockstep with its peers at the same intensity, rather than on its own data.
Extreme momentum, price far above its moving average, and a large premium over fair value.
Price, volume, and sentiment accelerating together — a sign investors are chasing the price, not just following it.
Price (3M)
+6%
Market Narrative
80
Fundamental Reality
40
Narrative Gap
+40
🔀 Psychology Acceleration
News attention/sentiment is running well ahead of the price move itself.
🧠 StockIQ Psychologist
The market behavior for UNM suggests traders are exhibiting **overconfidence**—likely due to a disconnect between price momentum (+8.2%) and stagnant earnings growth (-0.5%), alongside extreme valuation (+210% above DCF). The **euphoria** and **FOMO** signals reinforce this, as positive sentiment and overbought RSI (58) may encourage further participation. However, the **anchoring** effect near resistance (2.9% below) could act as a psychological barrier. The key open question is whether traders will sustain overconfidence despite the valuation gap or if a correction will reveal a more realistic narrative.
Updated: 09/09/2026, 09:31 AM
What could change this?
👥 What the crowd believes
""UNM's new $1 billion buyback authorization reinforces shareholder returns, backed by strong capital and recurring repurchases.""
""Unum Group... has returned 268% since September 2021, blowing past the S&P 500’s 69.5% gain.""
""Unum Group’s (NYSE: UNM) President & CEO, Rick McKenney will represent the company at the KBW Insurance Conference.""
📈 13D Investor Psychology
Signal classification confidence: High (confidence in the behavioral read, not a price prediction). Describes observable market behavior, not what any individual investor thinks, and is not a buy/sell signal.
🏛️ Investor DNA — Historical Investors
A Historical Strategy Simulation: assuming each investor follows their documented principles, how would they rate this stock today? This is not a prediction of what they would actually do.
🟢 Best match
Edgar Lawrence Smith — 68/100
🔴 Weakest match
Philip Fisher — 3/100
🗣️ Why do they disagree?
This stock sparks a sharp divide among methodologies, with some seeing potential while others flag it as risky or overvalued. The most bullish signals come from **Edgar Lawrence Smith**, who scores it highly as a 'buy and hold for a decade' candidate, suggesting long-term fundamentals align with his patient, value-driven approach. Meanwhile, **Walter Bagehot**’s near-perfect score reflects his focus on balance-sheet strength, though his verdict notes insufficient data—a rare case where his quantitative rigor clashes with his qualitative caution. In contrast, **Philip Fisher** and **Peter Lynch** dismiss it outright, with Fisher’s near-zero score indicating a complete lack of the quality and growth traits he prized, while Lynch’s low mark suggests it fails his 'growth at a reasonable price' test. The middle ground is occupied by **Gerald Loeb** and **Howard Marks**, who acknowledge moderate risk but still see some merit, while **Jesse Livermore** and **Jack Schwager**’s low scores reflect their preference for clear trends or disciplined setups—neither of which this stock appears to offer. The extreme caution from **Samuel Nelson** and **Thorstein Veblen** further underscores concerns about overvaluation or speculative bubbles, framing this stock as a high-risk gamble for those wary of market cycles or consumer-driven hype.
Walter Bagehot
Lombard Street (1873)
🟢 89
Not enough balance-sheet data for a real Bagehot read
Key question
Does this company have enough liquidity to survive real stress?
⚠️ Partial data for this stock — score is less reliable — Data availability: 25%
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Edgar Lawrence Smith
Common Stocks as Long-Term Investments (1924)
🟢 68
Looks like a real 'buy and hold for a decade' candidate
Key question
Is this a stock I'd be happy to hold and forget about for a decade?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Jesse Livermore
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923) / How to Trade in Stocks (1940)
🟢 65
No clear trend — Livermore preferred to stay out of this
Key question
What is the price telling me right now?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Gerald M. Loeb
The Battle for Investment Survival (1935)
🟢 65
Reasonable capital-preservation profile
Key question
How much capital could I lose here if I'm wrong?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Burton Malkiel & John Bogle
A Random Walk Down Wall Street (1973) / The Little Book of Common Sense Investing (2007)
🟡 53
Mixed case — the evidence for picking this stock over an index is not strong
Key question
Do I actually have an edge here, or do I just think I do?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Morgan Housel
The Psychology of Money (2020)
🟡 48
Moderate — holdable, but not effortless
Key question
Could I live with this volatility long enough for compounding to actually work?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Jack Schwager
Market Wizards (1989)
🟡 43
No clear edge either way
Key question
What's the risk/reward here, and where is my exit point?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Charles Mackay
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841)
🟡 41
Pattern consistent with a crowd delusion Mackay would flag
Key question
Am I being swept along with the crowd, or thinking for myself?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Benjamin Graham
Security Analysis (1934) / The Intelligent Investor (1949)
🟡 40
Fails most of Graham's defensive criteria
Key question
Where is my margin of safety?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Howard Marks
The Most Important Thing (2011) / Mastering the Market Cycle (2018)
🟡 36
Risk/valuation combination Marks would flag as a caution sign
Key question
What is the market probably misunderstanding about the risk here?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Samuel Armstrong Nelson
The ABC of Stock Speculation (1903)
🔴 26
Cycle looks stretched toward overbought
Key question
Is the price overextended, or is there still room to move?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Howard Marks (Market Cycle)
Mastering the Market Cycle (2018)
🔴 26
Looks late-cycle — the position Marks would treat with extra caution
Key question
Where are we in the cycle right now — near a hot extreme, or a cold one?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Peter Lynch
One Up on Wall Street (1989)
🔴 21
Doesn't clear Lynch's growth-at-a-reasonable-price bar
Key question
Is the growth worth the price?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Benjamin Graham (Enterprising Investor)
The Intelligent Investor (1949) — the Enterprising Investor chapters
🔴 19
Not statistically cheap enough for the Enterprising Investor's looser safety bar
Key question
Is the stock statistically cheap enough to justify the extra risk?
⚠️ Partial data for this stock — score is less reliable — Data availability: 45%
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Thorstein Veblen
The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904)
🔴 10
Pattern Veblen would flag as growth pursued for its own sake
Key question
Is management building real value, or just building itself?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Philip Fisher
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits (1958)
🔴 3
Doesn't show the quality/growth signature Fisher required
Key question
How exceptional is this business, really?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Based on the last 282 trading days, calculated from real price data. Click an indicator for details and a chart.
🟢 Most indicators support an uptrend (9 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 neutral)
A market-structure read based purely on real price and volume data — not full classic Wyckoff schematic identification (Phase A-E), but a quantitative analysis of what can reliably be computed: trading ranges, "effort vs. result", volume within the range, and Spring/Upthrust detection.
The stock is in a clear uptrend with no defined trading range in the period examined.
High confidence
The Wyckoff Method, developed by Richard Wyckoff in the early 20th century, reads the balance of supply and demand through price and volume, based on the premise that large investors ("smart money") quietly accumulate shares before rallies and quietly distribute them before declines. The read here is based solely on real price and volume data — full, precise identification of classic Wyckoff patterns (such as Phases A-E) requires human chart-reading experience and judgment, so this is an approximate algorithmic read, not a substitute for professional analysis. This should not be considered investment advice.
Gross Margin
—
Operating Margin
—
Net Margin
5.6%
EBITDA Margin
—
ROE
6.6%
ROA
1.2%
ROIC
—
EPS
$4.28
Cash
$158.20M
Total Debt
$3.77B
Current Ratio
—
Debt/Equity
0.34
Total dividend per share paid each year, over the last 5 years.
| Ex-Dividend Date | Amount per Share |
|---|---|
| 24.7.2026 | $0.505 |
| 23.7.2026 | $0.505 |
| 24.4.2026 | $0.460 |
| 23.4.2026 | $0.460 |
| 30.1.2026 | $0.460 |
| 29.1.2026 | $0.460 |
| 24.10.2025 | $0.460 |
| 23.10.2025 | $0.460 |
| 25.7.2025 | $0.460 |
| 24.7.2025 | $0.460 |
| 25.4.2025 | $0.420 |
| 24.4.2025 | $0.420 |
How is Fair Value calculated? →
Current Price
$95.19
Estimated Fair Value (DCF)
$30.31
Model estimate — not a price target. Highly sensitive to growth/discount-rate assumptions.
Gap
-68.2%
🔴 Appears expensive relative to estimated value
Year 1 Growth Rate
3.0%
Discount Rate (WACC)
9.0%
Terminal Growth Rate
2.5%
Projection Years
5
| Year | Growth Rate | Projected FCF | Present Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3.0% | $571.81M | $524.59M |
| 2 | 2.8% | $588.05M | $494.95M |
| 3 | 2.7% | $604.08M | $466.46M |
| 4 | 2.6% | $619.87M | $439.13M |
| 5 | 2.5% | $635.37M | $412.94M |
Base FCF (last actual year)
$555.40M
Terminal Value
$10.02B
Present Value of Terminal Value
$6.51B
Enterprise Value
$8.85B
Net Debt
$3.61B
Equity Value
$5.24B
*The DCF model is an estimate based on assumptions — not a guaranteed forecast. You can change the assumptions to examine different scenarios.
Book Value per Share
$64.30
Tangible Book Value per Share (Tangible NAV)
$62.25
Sentiment based on basic keywords (not AI) — 9 positive, 10 neutral, 1 negative out of the last 20 articles.
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Unum Group (UNM) currently has a StockIQ AI score of 60/100, rated "Moderate". The score is a weighted average across up to 7 categories (technical, fundamental, growth, fair value, news, quality, risk), based on real data only.
UNM currently scores 60/100 (Moderate) across the categories we measure. StockIQ doesn't give buy/sell recommendations — use this as one data point in your own research, not as investment advice.
Per StockIQ's DCF model, UNM's estimated fair value is $30.31, which is 68.2% below the current price of $95.19. This is one valuation model among several signals in the fair-value category, not a price target.
UNM's technical score is 82/100, which currently reads as bullish — based on real price/volume signals (moving averages, RSI, MACD, and more), not a prediction of what happens next.
Based on the real signals StockIQ computed: Debt/equity: 0.34; Price is above the 50-day average; Price is above the 200-day average.
Based on the real signals StockIQ computed: Estimated fair value: $30.31 vs. price $95.19 (-68.2%); Earnings per share (EPS) growth: -54.9%; Free cash flow growth: -60.0%.
Yes — UNM has a real recorded dividend payment history on StockIQ. See the Dividends section on this page for the actual per-share amounts and dates.
Real transactions by officers and insiders, as reported to the SEC on Form 4 — 0 purchases and 3 sales out of the last 25 filings.
| Name | Transaction Type | Date | Shares | Change | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rice Walter Lynn JR | Gift | 10.9.2026 | 239 | -239 | — |
| Keaney Timothy F | Open Market Sale | 10.9.2026 | 4,300 | -4,300 | $94.02 |
| Rice Walter Lynn JR | Open Market Sale | 10.9.2026 | 2,188 | -2,188 | $94.32 |
| IGLESIAS LISA G | Open Market Sale | 9.9.2026 | 4,000 | -4,000 | $94.44 |
| Walker Andrew D | Tax Withholding in Shares | 31.7.2026 | 1,819 | -1,819 | $86.11 |
| Walker Andrew D | Tax Withholding in Shares | 31.7.2026 | 24,324 | -1,819 | $86.11 |
| Lefebvre Mojgan M | Grant/Award from Employer | 26.5.2026 | 2,191 | +2,191 | — |
| Cross Susan Lee | Grant/Award from Employer | 26.5.2026 | 2,191 | +2,191 | — |
| Echevarria Joseph | Grant/Award from Employer | 26.5.2026 | 1,540 | +1,540 | — |
| Keaney Timothy F | Grant/Award from Employer | 26.5.2026 | 2,191 | +2,191 | — |
| Echevarria Joseph | Grant/Award from Employer | 26.5.2026 | 2,191 | +2,191 | — |
| KABAT KEVIN T | Grant/Award from Employer | 26.5.2026 | 1,333 | +1,333 | — |
| DeVore Susan D. | Grant/Award from Employer | 26.5.2026 | 2,191 | +2,191 | — |
| KING GALE V. | Grant/Award from Employer | 26.5.2026 | 2,191 | +2,191 | — |
| KABAT KEVIN T | Grant/Award from Employer | 26.5.2026 | 2,191 | +2,191 | — |
| Matus Kristi Ann | Grant/Award from Employer | 26.5.2026 | 2,191 | +2,191 | — |
| Egan Cynthia | Grant/Award from Employer | 26.5.2026 | 2,191 | +2,191 | — |
| O HANLEY RONALD P | Grant/Award from Employer | 26.5.2026 | 2,191 | +2,191 | — |
| O HANLEY RONALD P | Grant/Award from Employer | 26.5.2026 | 1,777 | +1,777 | — |
| KABAT KEVIN T | Grant/Award from Employer | 26.5.2026 | 125,997 | +2,191 | — |
| KABAT KEVIN T | Grant/Award from Employer | 26.5.2026 | 127,330 | +1,333 | — |
| O HANLEY RONALD P | Grant/Award from Employer | 26.5.2026 | 45,757 | +2,191 | — |
| O HANLEY RONALD P | Grant/Award from Employer | 26.5.2026 | 47,534 | +1,777 | — |
| Keaney Timothy F | Grant/Award from Employer | 26.5.2026 | 40,796 | +2,191 | — |
| Cross Susan Lee | Grant/Award from Employer | 26.5.2026 | 66,185 | +2,191 | — |
Official FINRA data — the number of shares open in short positions, plus daily short-sale activity.
4,207,576 shares short as of 2026-08-31 · vs. 2,959,983 on 2026-07-31
Official biweekly report (FINRA Rule 4560) — no real higher-frequency data exists for this metric.
53.1% of trading volume this week was short selling, vs. 48.8% the prior week
Based on daily short-sale volume (Reg SHO) — a different metric from the open short interest above: this is daily trading volume, not an open position, so it updates weekly rather than biweekly.
Full breakdown of every data type and its source: Data Sources · Methodology