United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $131.41, with 3.43 million shares of worth about $450.84 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -10.37% during that period and on October 23, 2024 the price saw a gain of about 0.06%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 856.58M shares, out of which, 732.36M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -3.26% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 1.46%. Year-to-date (YTD), UPS shares are showing a performance of -16.42% which decreased to -11.31% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $123.12 but also hit the highest price of $163.82 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for United Parcel Service, Inc. shares is 4.62 million. The stock is currently trading -1.36% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 0.71% for SMA50 and it goes to -6.68% lower than SMA200.
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United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS) currently have 856.58M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 61.72% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $112.56B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.98. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 21.45, while it has posted earnings per share of $6.13 in the same period. Its PEG reads 6.70 and has Quick Ratio of 1.25 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.55. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for UPS, volatility over the week remained 1.39% while standing at 1.50% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 1.63 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 2.53 and it is 8.83 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 1.49 which is 1.82 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 1.57 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -15.97% while it is estimated to increase by 19.24% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 3.20% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 7.20% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
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 Barclays on October 21, 2024 offering an Underweight rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $120 to it. Coverage by Citigroup stated United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on October 09, 2024, suggesting a price target of $162 for the stock. On August 22, 2024, TD Cowen Resumed their recommendations, while on June 07, 2024, Wells Fargo Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $156. Stock get a Buy rating from HSBC Securities on April 25, 2024.
