Aon plc (AON) Stock

About Aon plc

Aon plc operates as a professional services firm in the United States, rest of the Americas, the United Kingdom, Ireland, rest of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It operates through Risk Capital and Human Capital segments. The company offers commercial risk solutions comprising retail and insurance brokerage, specialty solutions, global risk consulting, captives management, and affinity programs; health solutions, such as consulting and brokerage, consumer benefits, and talent advisory services; and wealth solutions, including retirement consulting and investments. It also provides treaty and facultative reinsurance; strategy and technology group solutions; insurance-linked securities, capital raising, strategic advice, restructuring, and merger and acquisition services; and risk management products and solutions, capital market solutions, and corporate finance advisory services. In addition, the company offers strategic design advice and actuarial services; pension risk transfer and integrated pension administration; and investment advisory services on developing and maintaining investment programs across various plan types, including defined benefit plans, defined contribution plans, master trusts, and pooled employer plans for corporations, public pensions, endowments, and foundations. Aon plc was incorporated in 1979 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Aon plc is led by CEO Gregory Clarence Case, employs 60,000 people, headquartered in Dublin, IE, publicly traded since 1980.

Aon plc (AON) stock trades at $377.16 with a market capitalization of $80.55B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 17.19, price-to-book of 7.17, price-to-sales of 3.87. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $304.59 and $381.70, and currently trades 1.2% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 0.96%.

On profitability, Aon plc generates a return on equity (ROE) of 46.45% — well above the market average, a sign of a high-quality business, return on capital employed of 45.50%, an operating margin of 25.28%, a net profit margin of 22.54%.

In its most recent fiscal year, Aon plc reported annual revenue of $17.2B, net profit of $3.7B, revenue has compounded at 9.2% a year over the last five years, profit at 13.4% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.56, a current ratio of 1.11, total assets of $50.8B, $1.2B in cash and equivalents.

AON has an average daily trading volume of 1,579,000 shares, a beta of 0.71 (less volatile than the overall market).

Official website: www.aon.com