In the latest trading session,, 0.89 million United Natural Foods Inc (NYSE:UNFI) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.90. With the company’s most recent per share price at $24.61 changed hands at -$1.33 or -5.11% at last look, the market valuation stands at $1.49B. UNFI’s current price is a discount, trading about -41.24% off its 52-week high of $34.76. The share price had its 52-week low at $11.88, which suggests the last value was 51.73% up since then. When we look at United Natural Foods Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 0.83 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 753.85K.
Analysts gave the United Natural Foods Inc (UNFI) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, calculated at a mean rating of 2.83. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 6 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 5 recommended UNFI as a Hold, 1 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. United Natural Foods Inc’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.22.
United Natural Foods Inc (NYSE:UNFI) trade information
Instantly UNFI was in red as seen in intraday trades today. With action -14.53%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -9.87%, with the 5-day performance at -14.53% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, United Natural Foods Inc (NYSE:UNFI) is -10.85% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 4.38 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 7.44 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 33, meaning bulls need an upside of 25.42% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, UNFI’s forecast low is 33 with 33 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -34.09% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -34.09% for it to hit the projected low.
United Natural Foods Inc (UNFI) estimates and forecasts
Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 1.90% up from the last financial year.
Consensus estimates given by 9 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 7.75B. 7 analysts are of the opinion that United Natural Foods Inc’s revenue for the current quarter will be 8.02B. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 8.15B and 7.87B respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at -4.98%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 1.86%.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 19.41%. The 2025 estimates are for United Natural Foods Inc earnings to increase by 489.83%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 131.59% per year.
UNFI Dividends
United Natural Foods Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Mar-10.
United Natural Foods Inc (NYSE:UNFI)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 2.01% of United Natural Foods Inc shares while 92.31% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 94.20%. There are 92.31% institutions holding the United Natural Foods Inc stock share, with BLACKROCK INC. the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 16.1667% of the shares, roughly 9.59 million UNFI shares worth $125.59 million.
VANGUARD GROUP INC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 13.7509% or 8.15 million shares worth $106.82 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Apr 30, 2025 were iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and American Century ETF Trust-Avantis U.S. Small Cap Value ETF . With 3.64 shares estimated at $90.68 million under it, the former controlled 6.01% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, American Century ETF Trust-Avantis U.S. Small Cap Value ETF held about 3.38% of the shares, roughly 2.05 shares worth around $50.95 million.
