In the last trading session, 1.21 million United Natural Foods Inc (NYSE:UNFI) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.83. With the company’s per share price at $22.88 changed hands at -$0.43 or -1.84% during last session, the market valuation stood at $1.39B. UNFI’s last price was a discount, traded about -51.92% 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 48.08% up since then. When we look at United Natural Foods Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 1.52 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 966.77K.
Analysts gave the United Natural Foods Inc (UNFI) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, calculated at a mean rating of 3.18. 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 (NYSE:UNFI) trade information
Instantly UNFI was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action 5.58%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 77.36%, with the 5-day performance at 5.58% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, United Natural Foods Inc (NYSE:UNFI) is -25.16% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 4.98 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 4.55 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 28.5, meaning bulls need an upside of 19.72% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, UNFI’s forecast low is 24 with 33 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -44.23% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -4.9% for it to hit the projected low.
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 391.51%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 128.31% per year.
UNFI Dividends
United Natural Foods Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Jun-10.
United Natural Foods Inc (NYSE:UNFI)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 2.00% of United Natural Foods Inc shares while 92.19% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 94.07%. There are 92.19% 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.