Manulife Financial Corp. | MFC

Daily Technical Analysis of Manulife Financial Corp.

Manulife Financial is down a bit on the day, funds flowing out kept the price down -1.23% since yesterday.

It looks like Manulife Financial isn't currently at a very decisive point in regards to support/resistance levels. But let's also consider momentum! Manulife Financial has had a nice run over the last year and provided good returns to shareholders. Over the previous year, the Insurance company has grown 68.61 percent which isn't too bad. MFC might find some support at the 17.14 level, buyers might push the price back up from here. But it's not very clear what will happen.

Last analyzed on 2024-11-13

Analyst Ratings for Manulife Financial By Price Target And Rating

The analysts are pretty neutral on Manulife Financial right now, so not much useful information here. The current Analysts Sentiment Score is 3.92. Most companies range between (-200 to 200).

Here's a break down of the latest rating changes. BMO Capital Markets upgraded from Market Perform to Outperform on 2024-02-15 and also increased their price target by 12.9% to $35.00. Royal Bank of Canada announced an upgrade on 2023-12-12 from Sector Perform to Outperform. On 2023-08-11 Barclays increased their price target by 6.45% to $33.00. Desjardins boosted their price targ by 7.69% to $28.00 on 2023-02-17. TD Securities gave a boost to their price target and moved to $32.00 from $30.00 on 2023-02-16. National Bank Financial decided to move up their price target on 2023-02-16 to $27.00 which is a 3.85% increase.

Company	Ratings Score ? Composite analyst sentiment score	Positive Ratings	Negative Ratings	Boost Price Target	Lower Price Target
MFC	3.92	6.58	0	1.26	0

Earnings Per Share (EPS) Estimates By Year and Quarter

(updated 2024-04-21)

Company	YOY Growth Score (typical -20 to +20)	Revision Directions (-6 to +6)
MFC	0.00	0.00

Short interest for Manulife Financial

We take into account several different measures of short interest to create a composite score. These measures are shown in the chart below. Short selling is when investors are betting against a stock. We compile these factors to create a dynamic Short Score - this can indicate poor sentiment, internal problems with a company or industry and the anticipation of future price declines. We look at the short interest percent, days to cover, the rate of change and total shares sold short.

Company	Short Score (typical 1-15) ? We take into account several different measures and attributes of short interest to create a composite sentiment score. typical range (0 - 30)	Short Interest	Days to Cover	Rate of Change	Shares Short
MFC	3.17	%0.9	5.2	12.606	16490000

How Manulife Financial compares to the broader Financial Services sector and the more specific Insurance - Life industry

Segment	Count	1 Day%	5 Day	1 Month	3 Month	6 Month	1 Year	RSI	3mo S-momo ? Smooth Momentum is our proprietary technical indicator that looks for momentum with the greatest consistency and steady velocity. We have penalized dramatic swings and fluctuations. If the momentum is too high and an asset spikes upward, this is often unreliable and collapses back down. But the smoothed momentum provides the highest probability of continuing into the near future with the same directional rate of change. Several complex factors are weighted by neural nets to maximize probabilistic accuracy. It works the same with positive or negative directions.	6mo S-momo	1yr S-momo	Resistance ? Support and Resistance levels are determined by previous high and low points. You may be familiar with traders drawing lines across charts where several peaks or valleys occur in the same range. This helps us understand the trading range of an asset where the market doesn't perceive it to be worth more or less than a certain price level. When it nears the boundaries of this range the probability of reversal can increase. Our neural nets create scores for this measure based on many factors such as the frequency, recency, size, consistency, etc of previous reversal points.	Support	Demark Sell ? Demark 9 indicators are designed to look for exhaustion in the selling or buying trend which can often be predictive of a reversal point. This indicator is triggered when there are 9 consecutive days where the closing price is higher/lower than the closing price 4 days ago. Like all indicators, it is best used in combinations with other factors.	Demark Buy	Short Interest	Analysts Ratings ? We track several different measures of analyst sentiment including ratings and price targets. To create a composite Analyst Sentiment Score, we weight several factors such as the recent rate of change which can be more predictive than the absolute level. We also weight each analyst's opinion based on their historic accuracy. We built in a time decay function to ensure that the rating reflects the current sentiment levels. Typical range (-80 to +80)
Insurance - Life Show Me Companies With: S-Momentum: Highest \| Lowest At Bottom Support At Top Resistance RSI Highest \| Lowest 1 Day Growth: Highest \| Lowest 5 Day Growth: Highest \| Lowest 1 Month Growth: Highest \| Lowest 6 Month Growth: Highest \| Lowest List All Stocks	11	-0.17	-0.83	2.66	9.40	17.06	32.88	66.09	61.25	38.14	44.91	-6647.25	-32759.69	22.73	0.00	2.31	1.89
Financial Services Show Me Companies With: S-Momentum: Highest \| Lowest At Bottom Support At Top Resistance RSI Highest \| Lowest 1 Day Growth: Highest \| Lowest 5 Day Growth: Highest \| Lowest 1 Month Growth: Highest \| Lowest 6 Month Growth: Highest \| Lowest List All Stocks	358	-0.23	-0.71	6.49	9.98	24.32	39.30	67.31	48.87	33.68	32.87	-3158.22	-22157.88	7.61	1.47	4.02	2.25

Social Sentiment for Manulife Financial

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Ticker	Social Sentiment(1-10)
MFC

Companies with the highest correlation to Manulife Financial

Company	Score	1 Day%	5 Day	1 Month	3 Month	6 Month	1 Year	RSI	3mo S-momo ? Smooth Momentum is our proprietary technical indicator that looks for momentum with the greatest consistency and steady velocity. We have penalized dramatic swings and fluctuations. If the momentum is too high and an asset spikes upward, this is often unreliable and collapses back down. But the smoothed momentum provides the highest probability of continuing into the near future with the same directional rate of change. Several complex factors are weighted by neural nets to maximize probabilistic accuracy. It works the same with positive or negative directions.	6mo S-momo	1yr S-momo	Resistance ? Support and Resistance levels are determined by previous high and low points. You may be familiar with traders drawing lines across charts where several peaks or valleys occur in the same range. This helps us understand the trading range of an asset where the market doesn't perceive it to be worth more or less than a certain price level. When it nears the boundaries of this range the probability of reversal can increase. Our neural nets create scores for this measure based on many factors such as the frequency, recency, size, consistency, etc of previous reversal points.	Support	Short Interest Score
BMO \| Bank of Montreal	1.38	-0.05	0.69	0.70	14.85	-0.54	16.36	68	6.75	4.99	4.53	-1056.93	-17902.32	12.7416
MET \| MetLife, Inc.	1.35	-0.04	0.00	-2.09	9.04	15.28	32.69	59	43.27	33.10	66.65	-1050.93	-30515.45	1.90182
PRU \| Prudential Financial, Inc	1.32	-0.40	-1.30	-1.00	4.49	5.31	31.72	56	29.28	27.96	52.12	-660.36	-26801.53	2.16878
PFG \| Principal Financial Group	1.25	-0.04	-2.56	-6.13	4.95	3.35	16.54	68	11.81	12.09	26.34	-741.94	-15661.26	2.79668
LNC \| Lincoln National Corp.	1.24	0.38	-1.92	4.58	6.79	8.28	45.77	59	23.60	24.61	40.72	-503.67	-32812.07	2.53473
AMP \| Ameriprise Financial, Inc	1.21	-0.21	-0.02	11.34	27.74	29.31	61.34	72	144.01	41.62	74.33	-525.00	-34924.22	1.49246
SF \| Stifel Financial Corp.	1.21	0.25	-1.84	8.79	30.87	40.24	84.34	73	110.10	63.15	80.68	0.00	-62293.59	2.28385
BNS \| Bank of Nova Scotia	1.16	0.30	4.63	7.36	15.11	19.10	27.72	69	53.90	16.85	26.57	-521.13	-26746.41	14.614

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