With 0.83 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.65 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $30.12 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $29.31. The 52-week range on UCB shows that it touched its highest point at $35.38 and its lowest point at $22.93 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $34.92. With its current market cap of 3.63 billion, UCB has annualized dividend of $0.96 while the current yield stands at 3.21%. UCB paid its most recent dividend on 1749772800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1749772800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.85.
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 UCB was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -5.17%, but this was down by -4.75% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 7.28% while six-month performance fell -9.50%. The stock lost -7.43% in the past year, while it has lost -3.73% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for UCB yields 2.20 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.82. For the next quarter, that number is 0.70. This implies an EPS growth rate of 15.30% for this year and 6.53% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 121.43 million UCB shares are outstanding with a float of 120.83 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-07-15, short shares totaled 2.4 million, which was 197.0 higher than short shares on 1749772800. In addition to Mr. Herbert Lynn Harton as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. Richard William Bradshaw serves as its President & Chief Banking Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.85693 of UCB’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With UCB analysts setting a high price target of 36.0 and a low target of 32.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 34.91667. Based on these targets, UCB could surge 20.36% to reach the target high and rise by 6.99% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 16.74% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.27013 being high and $2.20987 being low. For UCB, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.24.
