Universal Technical Institute Inc (UTI) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $16.20, with 2.9 million shares of worth about $47.04 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 104.03% during that period and on Thursday the price saw a gain of about 10.20%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 53.73M shares, out of which, 51.14M shares are available for trading.
According to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), insiders took part in trade of the company’s stock for 20 times over the past 12 months. They bought 12,648,177 shares in 17 of the transactions. In 3 selling transactions, insiders dumped 9,698 shares.
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Stock saw a price change of 12.11% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 28.47%. Year-to-date (YTD), UTI shares are showing a performance of 29.39% which increased to 120.41% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $5.63 but also hit the highest price of $15.40 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Universal Technical Institute Inc shares is 396.33K. The stock is currently trading 14.97% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 26.52% for SMA50 and it goes to 79.85% higher than SMA200.
Universal Technical Institute Inc (NYSE: UTI) currently have 53.73M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 75.19% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $870.43M and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.20. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 63.28, while it has posted earnings per share of $0.26 in the same period. Its PEG reads 4.22 and has Quick Ratio of 1.11 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.57. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for UTI, volatility over the week remained 4.90% while standing at 3.96% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Universal Technical Institute Inc (UTI) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is $247.39 and it is $ETF for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target $E-mini Utilities Select Sector which is $BTIC on E-mini Utilities Select at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of $SPDR Select Sector Fund – Utili in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 440.00% while it is estimated to increase by 21.79% in next year.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Northland Capital on January 10, 2024 offering an Outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $16 to it.
