Company: HUM
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001628280-25-014916
Chunk: 59

Company: HUMANA INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form: 424B5
Chunk 59
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 supplement, we expect to use the net proceeds from the sale of our securities for our operations and for other general corporate purposes, including repayment or refinancing of borrowings, working capital, capital expenditures, investments, acquisitions and the repurchase of our outstanding securities. Additional information on the use of net proceeds from the sale of securities that we may offer from time to time by this prospectus may be set forth in the applicable prospectus supplement relating to a particular offering.

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### DESCRIPTION OF THE SECURITIES WE MAY ISSUE

#### Overview
This prospectus describes the securities we may issue from time to time. The remainder of this section provides some background information about the manner in which the securities may be held. The four sections following this section of the prospectus describe the terms of the basic categories of securities that we may issue pursuant to this prospectus:

• our debt securities, which may be senior or subordinated;

• our preferred stock and depositary shares representing fractional shares of our preferred stock;

• our common stock; and

• warrants to purchase our debt securities, preferred stock, depositary shares and common stock.

When we refer to you, we mean those who invest in the securities being offered by this prospectus, whether they are the legal holders or only indirect holders of those securities. When we refer to your securities, we mean the securities in which you hold a direct or indirect interest.

#### Prospectus Supplements
This prospectus provides you with a general description of the securities we may offer. Each time we sell securities, we will provide a prospectus supplement that will contain specific information about the terms of that offering. The prospectus supplement may also add to or change information contained in this prospectus. If so, the information in the prospectus supplement should be read as superseding the information in this prospectus. You should read both this prospectus and any applicable prospectus supplement together with additional information described under the heading “Where You Can Find Additional Information.”

Any applicable prospectus supplement will describe the terms of any securities that we offer, as well as the other specific terms related to that offering. For more details on the terms of the securities, you should read the exhibits filed with our registration statement, of which this prospectus is a part, including any future filings we will make with the SEC that are incorporated by reference into the registration statement by filing a Current Report on Form 8-K or otherwise.

#### Legal Ownership of Securities

#### Holders of Securities

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