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Unum

UNM
40
Insurance - Life · Financial Services
Price
$89.05
-0.52 (-0.58%)
Market Cap
$14.23B
Winston Score
40
Winston is serious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

Share count falling — buybacks

15.6% over 4y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 204.8M (2021) → 172.9M (2025)

Unum Group is an insurance company that sells policies to protect people when they can't work due to illness or injury. Its main products are disability insurance, life insurance, and voluntary benefits — extras like accident or critical illness coverage that workers can add through their employer. Unum is one of the largest group disability insurers in the United States and also operates in the United Kingdom and Poland.

The company mostly sells through employers, who offer Unum's policies as part of their benefits packages to employees. This gives Unum a steady stream of premium payments from a large, diversified base of policyholders across the U.S. and U.K. With a market cap around $13 billion, it is a mid-sized insurer with a long track record in the workplace benefits market. The main risk Unum faces is that claims can rise sharply during economic downturns or health crises, which can squeeze profits even when premium revenue stays stable.

Winston Score History

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Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+9.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow revenue growth

EPS Growth

+33.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

R&D Spend

$0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (7%)

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

0.9%ownership

Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$193M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

→ Burn rate stable

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Growth context

Unum is growing revenue at 9% year-over-year. The Winston Score measures business quality today — these growth metrics show what could matter tomorrow.

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

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Quality

Gross Margin
40.3%
Healthy — 40.3% gross margin
Operating Margin
9.0%
Modest — 9.0% operating margin
ROCE
2.1%
Weak — 2.1% return on capital

ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.

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Growth

Sales YoY
+4.8%
Slow sales growth (4.8% YoY)
EPS YoY
-45.8%
Earnings shrinking (-45.8% YoY)

Earnings per share down more than 10%. Either a bad year, or a real decline.

EPS Consistency
2/8 quarters
Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
86%
Modest — 86% of profit becomes cash
FCF Margin
4.1%
Thin free cash flow (4.1%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.35
Conservative — low debt load (0.35)
Interest Cover
4.73x
Adequate interest coverage (4.7x)

Interest coverage between 3 and 8. Profits cover interest several times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
19.3x
Fair value — P/E 19.3

P/E in the normal range. Price is roughly $15 for every $1 of yearly profit.

P/E vs Forward
+10.1
GROWING
Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (19.3 → 9.3)

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Dividends

Dividend Yield
2.05%
Moderate income — 2.05% yield

Standard yield zone for stable dividend payers. A meaningful piece of total return.

Dividend Growth
+9.5%
Dividend growing modestly (9.5% YoY)

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