shares of humana inc hum climbed 21 in afternoon trading wednesday after the health insurance services company was upgraded at ubs about two week ahead of its earnings release citing the belief the company can return to above industry growth levels for its medicare advantage ma business the stock had plummeted in early january including the biggest oneday selloff in over a decade on jan 6 after the company said it suffered higherthanexpected terminations during the ma annual election period aep ubs analyst kevin caliendo raised his rating to buy after being at neutral the past three years and lifted his stock price target to 520 from 486 our channel checks pointed to increased compliance requirement being the root cause of the membership decline during aep caliendo wrote in a note to clients however these issues appear to be easily addressable and we believe management understands and is addressing these issues for the 2023 aep humana is scheduled to report firstquarter results ahead of the april 27 open the stock has slipped 11 year to date while the spdr health care select sector etf xlv has declined 12 and the sp 500 spx has dropped 69