With 0.54 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.7 million shares. During the session, the Information Technology Services company that operates in wider Technology sector, reached to the highest price of $6.83 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $6.6101. The 52-week range on UIS shows that it touched its highest point at $8.93 and its lowest point at $3.32 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $7.50. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.78.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of UIS was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 4.21%, but this was down by -21.02% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 18.83% while six-month performance rose 49.33%. The stock gained 14.75% in the past year, while it has gained 5.69% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for UIS yields -5.66 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.02. For the next quarter, that number is 0.30. This implies an EPS growth rate of -31.11% for this year and 145.97% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 69.30 million UIS shares are outstanding with a float of 65.70 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 0.84 million, which was 122.00001 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Peter A. Altabef J.D. as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. Michael M. Thomson CPA serves as its COO & President.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.85363 of UIS’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, UIS reported revenue of $497000000.0 and operating income of $34900000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $59200000.0 and diluted EPS was -$0.89.
Analysts Ratings:
In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With UIS analysts setting a high price target of 8.0 and a low target of 7.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 7.5. Based on these targets, UIS could surge 19.58% to reach the target high and rise by 4.63% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 12.11% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.41645 being high and $0.40999 being low. For UIS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.41333.
