Hartford Financial Services Group Inc (HIG): Today's Featured Insurance Winner
Hartford Financial Services Group
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) pushed the Insurance industry higher today making it today's featured insurance winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.5%. By the end of trading, Hartford Financial Services Group rose $0.40 (1.3%) to $32.21 on light volume. Throughout the day, 3,232,271 shares of Hartford Financial Services Group exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 5,859,100 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $31.76-$32.23 after having opened the day at $31.78 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $31.81. Other companies within the Insurance industry that increased today were:
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), up 4.8%,
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), up 4.7%,
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), up 4.1% and
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), up 2.7%.
The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides insurance and financial services to individual and business customers primarily in the United States and Japan. Hartford Financial Services Group has a market cap of $14.5 billion and is part of the financial sector. Shares are up 41.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are 9 analysts that rate Hartford Financial Services Group a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 6 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Hartford Financial Services Group as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, solid stock price performance and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including poor profit margins and feeble growth in the company's earnings per share.
- You can view the full Hartford Financial Services Group Ratings Report.
On the negative front,
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), down 7.4%,
American Independence Corporation
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), down 6.0%,
Triple-S Management Corporation
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), down 5.0% and
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), down 3.9%.
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