Putting The Spotlight On Manulife Financial Corp. (MFC)

Manulife Financial Corp. (NYSE:MFC) currently has a daily average trading volume of 3.25M but it saw 2017160 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 42.57B USD, the company’s current market price of $23.57 came rising about 1.07 while comparing to the previous closing price of $23.32. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $25.14 and as low as $17.07.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Manulife Financial Corp. (MFC) gives us an average price of $23.57, while its current price level is -6.25% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 38.08% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $23.93 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $20.80. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.65% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 1.79%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 49.11 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, MFC’s stock price is moving 0.38% up while it is -3.56% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 6.65% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 18.92%.

Currently, Manulife Financial Corp.’s total number of outstanding shares is 1.81B. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 7.83% and return on equity (ROE) at 9.80%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 12.19 while having a 8.03 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.07. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.39 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.59. Its return on asset (ROA) is 0.62% on average.