United Parcel Service, Inc (UPS) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $126.76, with 4.54 million shares of worth about $574.88 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -6.55% during that period and on January 08, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 1.42%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 853.37M shares, out of which, 731.26M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 0.52% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 0.92%. Year-to-date (YTD), UPS shares are showing a performance of 0.52% which decreased to -20.74% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $122.01 but also hit the highest price of $161.48 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for United Parcel Service, Inc shares is 4.05 million. The stock is currently trading 0.42% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -2.65% for SMA50 and it goes to -6.33% lower than SMA200.
United Parcel Service, Inc (NYSE: UPS) currently have 853.37M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 61.38% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $108.17B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.97. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 19.17, while it has posted earnings per share of $6.61 in the same period. Its PEG reads 4.32 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 1.79% while standing at 1.76% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -14.76% while it is estimated to increase by 16.89% 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 Wolfe Research on January 08, 2025 offering an Outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $147 to it. Coverage by BMO Capital Markets stated United Parcel Service, Inc (UPS) stock as an Outperform in their note to investors on December 10, 2024, suggesting a price target of $150 for the stock. On November 05, 2024, Argus Upgrade their recommendations, while on October 21, 2024, Barclays Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $120. Stock get a Buy rating from Citigroup on October 09, 2024.
