Unilever plc ADR (NYSE: UL) is 4.11% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $46.46 and a high of $65.87 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The UL stock was last observed hovering at around $59.33 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.3%.
Currently trading at $59.03, the stock is 3.22% and 3.66% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 2.75 million and changing -0.51% at the moment leaves the stock -0.27% off its SMA200. UL registered 20.03% gain for a year compared to 6-month loss of -10.00%.
The stock witnessed a 1.32% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -0.02%, and is 1.17% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 1.34% over the week and 1.35% over the month.
Unilever plc ADR (UL) has around 128000 employees, a market worth around $148.49B and $65.72B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 23.82 and Fwd P/E is 16.76. Profit margin for the company is 9.45%. Distance from 52-week low is 27.07% and -10.38% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (13.31%).
with sales reaching $15.3B over the same period.The EPS is expected to grow by 6.58% this year, but quarterly earnings will post 3.26% year-over-year.
The shares outstanding are 2.52B, and float is at 2.52B with Short Float at 0.08%.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT GROUP LLP with over 35.07 million shares valued at $1.93 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 1.3939 of the UL Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is FISHER ASSET MANAGEMENT, LLC with 15.61 million shares valued at $858.52 million to account for 0.6201 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are HOTCHKIS & WILEY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC which holds 8.34 million shares representing 0.3311 and valued at over $458.41 million, while MORGAN STANLEY holds 0.3215 of the shares totaling 8.09 million with a market value of $444.78 million.
