United Parcel Service, Inc (UPS) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $123.82, with 4.7 million shares of worth about $581.81 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -9.53% during that period and on December 18, 2024 the price saw a loss of about -2.75%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 853.37M shares, out of which, 731.27M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -4.10% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -8.37%. Year-to-date (YTD), UPS shares are showing a performance of -21.25% which decreased to -23.36% 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 4.04 million. The stock is currently trading -5.23% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -6.60% for SMA50 and it goes to -9.76% lower than SMA200.
United Parcel Service, Inc (NYSE: UPS) currently have 853.37M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 61.29% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $105.66B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.98. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 18.72, while it has posted earnings per share of $6.61 in the same period. Its PEG reads 4.22 and has Quick Ratio of 1.14 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.56. 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 1.71% while standing at 1.94% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -14.92% while it is estimated to increase by 17.01% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 4.43% 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 BMO Capital Markets on December 10, 2024 offering an Outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $155 and $150 to it. On October 21, 2024, Barclays Downgrade their recommendations, while on October 09, 2024, Citigroup Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $162. Stock get a Hold rating from TD Cowen on August 22, 2024.
