If All Goes Well, United Micro Electronics ADR (NYSE: UMC) Could Shrink By -32.93% Or More

During the last session, United Micro Electronics ADR (NYSE:UMC)’s traded shares were 11.57 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.07. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $7.47, reflecting an intraday gain of 0.95% or $0.07. The 52-week high for the UMC share is $9.00, that puts it down -20.48 from that peak though still a striking 24.9% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $5.61. The company’s market capitalization is $18.76B, and the average trade volume was 14.91 million shares over the past three months.

United Micro Electronics ADR (UMC) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.67. UMC has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 2 analysts who have looked at this stock. 1 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 1 recommend a Buy rating for it.

United Micro Electronics ADR (NYSE:UMC) trade information

United Micro Electronics ADR (UMC) registered a 0.95% upside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 0.95% in intraday trading to $7.47, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 6.11%, and it has moved by 21.86% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -8.34%.

The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $8.66, which implies an increase of 13.74% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $7.4 and $9.93 respectively. As a result, UMC is trading at a discount of -32.93% off the target high and 0.94% off the low.

An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 34.72%. While earnings are projected to return -9.95% in 2025, the next five years will return 5.54% per annum.

UMC Dividends

United Micro Electronics ADR is due to release its next quarterly earnings in June. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for United Micro Electronics ADR is 0.46, with the dividend yield indicating at 6.10 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years.

The next largest institutional holding, with 15.22 million shares, is of VANGUARD GROUP INC’s that is approximately 0.1226% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $133.31 million.

Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of United Micro Electronics ADR (UMC) shares are iShares Trust-iShares Semiconductor ETF and VANGUARD Intl Eqy. INDEX Fd.S-Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fd . Data provided on Mar 31, 2025 indicates that iShares Trust-iShares Semiconductor ETF owns about 11.35 shares. This amounts to just over 0.45 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $84.77 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 7.12, or about 0.28% of the stock, which is worth about $53.17 million.