The company’s restaurant concepts include The Polo Bar in New York City, RL Restaurant in Chicago, Ralph’s in Paris and Ralph’s Coffee concept.
Ralph Lauren sells its products to department stores, specialty stores and golf and pro shops, as well as directly to consumers through its retail stores, concession-based shop-within-shops and its digital commerce sites. The company directly operates 548 retail stores and 650 concession-based shop-within-shops, and it operates 139 Ralph Lauren stores and 143 Club Monaco stores and shops through licensing partners.
The current dividend yield is 2.83%. The expected increase is to $0.775 a share from $0.750.
UBS has set its price objective at $168, and Ralph Lauren stock has a consensus target of $129.67. On Monday, the closing share price was $113.18.
UnitedHealth
A whopping 45% of fund managers recently surveyed have bought shares of this company. UnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE: UNH) operates through the following four segments.
Its UnitedHealthcare segment offers consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services for national employers, public sector employers, midsized employers, small businesses and individuals; health and well-being services to individuals age 50 and older, addressing their needs for preventive and acute health care services, as well as services dealing with chronic disease and other specialized issues for older individuals; and Medicaid plans, Children’s Health Insurance Program, and health care programs; and health and dental benefits.
The OptumHealth segment provides access to networks of care provider specialists, health management services, care delivery, consumer engagement and financial services. This segment serves individuals through programs offered by employers, payers, government entities and directly with the care delivery systems.
The OptumInsight segment offers software and information products, advisory consulting arrangements, and services outsourcing contracts to hospital systems, physicians, health plans, governments, life sciences companies and other organizations.
OptumRx is the segment that provides pharmacy care services and programs, including retail network contracting, home delivery, specialty and compounding pharmacy, and purchasing and clinical. It also develops programs in areas such as step therapy, formulary management, drug adherence and disease/drug therapy management.
Shareholders are paid a 1.35% dividend. It is expected that UnitedHealth will raise the dividend nicely to $1.85 from $1.65.
Oppenheimer’s $610 target price is well above the $555.14 consensus target, and UnitedHealth Group stock ended Monday’s trading session at $498.19.
Three top companies with stocks rated Buy across Wall Street are expected to lift the dividends they pay to shareholders. Not only is increasing dividends and returning capital to investors important, but it also shows that the company is doing well and has the earnings and cash flow strength to increase the payouts.
Originally published at 24/7 Wall St.
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