In bewilders me how Humana gets away with the extreme various ways they try to manipulate investors instead of simply focusing on the mission of providing better (and more cost effective) strategies and services to its members.
I believe, in an attempt to raise investor expectations as to the stock price and earnings per share, they manipulate the stock price by buying back their own stock, have other corporations to temporarily buy their stock, and probably (possibly) pay off financial new’s journalists and financial analyst pundits to say they believe Humana’s future stock will raise to such and such.
I just hope the investors and potential investors are wise and discerning enough to not take news articles and temporary stock price spikes at face value. But instead do some digging and exhaustive research analysis of their own.
It is my belief that Humana, and Medicare Advantage, are treading water, buying time, with the knowledge that the good business days are numbered and the end is only a couple to a few years out (maybe five years, at most).