You absolutely have to take the lump sum unless you don’t trust your will power with the cash. The value of the dollar will have degraded too much over 10 years to make the annuity worth it. Especially not when you can lock in a 4.5% treasury right now for 10 years if you really want to.
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I have no debt except a mortgage and have a good enough situation around retirement investing. My big financial issue is having to live too far outside of the city to afford to own a single family house. So I’d pay off/sell my house and go pay cash for something in an area I want to live in.
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UHG has been hammered this year, latest negative news is a Department of Justice probe into potential Medicare fraud.
What do you all think about this business, and the stock price? Is it oversold, or is this correction justified?
I think it’s really hard to think about company-specific corrections. Primarily I just think it doesn’t mean much. For the insurance example, UHG sucks but theyre not the only scummy company out there. Is the price correction justified? Unclear. Overall if your company is based on making money by selectively covering medical care, and then you have serious allegations of fraudulent operation, yeah i kind of think it should go down
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It has the lowest weekly RSI since October 2008. Insane
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Sensei Amy, will you (as briefly as you’d like) teach the class about RSI?
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I have been conditioned to buy the dip. Let’s see if I get wrecked. Sold a cash secured put and bought 2 long dated calls
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Major technical price level at $242, it came down to $248ish today. Definitely very oversold, but it could be a long road to recovery, depending on all the problems fundamentally. From a purely technical stance I would be building a position at this price, but only if it stays above $242, otherwise I’d be cautious and play it slowly.
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It looks crazy until you zoom out and see that UNH only wiped out the gains since the pandemic. Some of that COVID parabolic growth was not going to be sustainable, even under perfect management and no abuse/fraud. Given the awful publicity and how much people hate health insurance companies, I think it can (and will) drop lower.
118.6M volume on 10.31M average is wild. People are obviously very excited.
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Hmm SPX up 16% last year but gold stars up 7000000% so this doesn’t compute
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