United Natural Foods Inc (NYSE: UNFI) is -5.02% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $11.88 and a high of $34.76 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will make a comeback and enjoy potential growth. Why not look at analysts view on what the future holds for the stock. The UNFI stock was last observed hovering at around $27.86 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -1.92%.
Currently trading at $25.94, the stock is -11.78% and -4.80% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.8 million and changing -6.89% at the moment leaves the stock 4.79% off its SMA200. UNFI registered 93.58% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 5.19%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $27.2474 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $24.754.
The stock witnessed a -4.81% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 0.43%, and is -17.78% down 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 3.79% over the week and 3.77% over the month.
United Natural Foods Inc (UNFI) has around 28333 employees, a market worth around $1.57B and $31.68B in sales. Fwd P/E is 18.69. Profit margin for the company is -0.26%. Distance from 52-week low is 118.35% and -25.37% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (-1.58%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 489.83% this year.
United Natural Foods Inc (UNFI) Top Institutional Holders
391.0 institutions hold shares in United Natural Foods Inc (UNFI), with institutional investors hold 94.20% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 60.50M, and float is at 58.95M with Short Float at 7.43%. Institutions hold 92.31% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is BLACKROCK INC. with over 9.59 million shares valued at $125.59 million. The investor’s holdings represent 16.1667% of the UNFI Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 8.15 million shares valued at $106.82 million to account for 13.7509 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP which holds 3.07 million shares representing 5.1718% and valued at over $40.18 million, while INVESCO LTD. holds 5.0541 of the shares totaling 3.0 million with a market value of $39.26 million.
United Natural Foods Inc (UNFI) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Bushway Mark, the company’s President, Natural & CSCO. SEC filings show that Bushway Mark sold 13,700 shares of the company’s common stock on Feb 12 ’25 at a price of $32.00 per share for a total of $0.44 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 43793.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Oct 17 ’24, Benedict Danielle (Chief Human Resources Officer) disposed off 9,050 shares at an average price of $22.10 for $0.2 million. The insider now directly holds 88,218 shares of United Natural Foods Inc (UNFI).
