A better buy-in window may exist right now for UBS Group AG (UBS)

With 2.64 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.33 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Diversified company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $32.61 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $32.045. The 52-week range on UBS shows that it touched its highest point at $33.34 and its lowest point at $26.00 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $33.87. With its current market cap of 103.41 billion, UBS has annualized dividend of $0.35 while the current yield stands at 1.08%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.16.

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 UBS was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 6.08%, but this was down by -0.86% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 3.67% while six-month performance rose 7.23%. The stock gained 9.92% in the past year, while it has gained 7.06% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for UBS yields 0.85 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.16. For the next quarter, that number is 0.31. This implies an EPS growth rate of 390.32% for this year and 27.44% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 47.88% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 48.81%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 3.19 billion UBS shares are outstanding with a float of 2.95 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 6.53 million, which was 20.0 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Sergio P. Ermotti as the firm’s Group CEO & President of the Group Executive Board, Mr. Todd Tuckner serves as its CFO & Member of Executive Board.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.55753 of UBS’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for UBS since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With UBS analysts setting a high price target of 34.34 and a low target of 31.5, the average target price over the next 12 months is 32.92. Based on these targets, UBS could surge 5.79% to reach the target high and fall by -2.96% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 1.42% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.75349 being high and $1.65497 being low. For UBS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.70423.