With 2.21 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 2.1 million shares. During the session, the Household & Personal Products company that operates in wider Consumer Defensive sector, reached to the highest price of $56.43 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $55.825. The 52-week range on UL shows that it touched its highest point at $65.87 and its lowest point at $46.46 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $62.32. With its current market cap of 138.26 billion, UL has annualized dividend of $1.87 while the current yield stands at 3.34%. UL paid its most recent dividend on 1731024000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1731024000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.50.
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 UL was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.60%, but this was down by -6.21% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -10.25% while six-month performance rose 0.54%. The stock gained 14.54% in the past year, while it has lost -1.50% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for UL yields 2.85 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.27. EPS is expected to grow by 10.56% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -7.51%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 2.50 billion UL shares are outstanding with a float of 2.48 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 1.94 million, which was 11.999999 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Hein M. A. Schumacher as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. Fernando Fernandez serves as its CFO & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.09288 of UL’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 UL since 5 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 2 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 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 UL analysts setting a high price target of 72.70816 and a low target of 55.791218, the average target price over the next 12 months is 66.07946. Based on these targets, UL could surge 30.18% to reach the target high and fall by -0.11% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 18.32% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $3.21452 being high and $2.92591 being low. For UL, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.08514. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0 and the low estimate is $0. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.
