Currently, there are 853.37M common shares owned by the public and among those 728.08M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 2.47% and -14.63% over the past three months. UPS shares are trading -9.18% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -22.57% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $109.40 and touched a high of $158.95 over the same period. UPS has an average intraday trading volume of 5.49 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -7.26%, -8.94%, and -13.69% respectively.
Institutional ownership of United Parcel Service, Inc (NYSE: UPS) shares accounts for 61.32% of the company’s 853.37M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $97.74B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.94. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 16.96, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $6.75. The company has a PEG of 2.17 and a Quick Ratio of 1.14 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 1.53. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 1.41% over the week and 2.00% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 2.82%, and 11.51% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 7.80% over the next five years, compared to 5.72% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the UPS, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Robert W. Baird stated their Neutral rating for the stock in a research note on January 31, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $160-$130. Evercore ISI coverage for the United Parcel Service, Inc (UPS) stock in a research note released on January 22, 2025 offered a In-line rating with a price target of $147. BofA Securities was of a view on January 16, 2025 that the stock is Buy, while Wolfe Research gave the stock Outperform rating on January 08, 2025, issuing a price target of $147. BMO Capital Markets on their part issued Outperform rating on December 10, 2024.
