United Parcel Service, Inc (NYSE:UPS)’s traded shares stood at 0.85 million during the latest session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.10. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $104.93, to imply a decrease of -0.58% or -$0.61 in intraday trading. The UPS share’s 52-week high remains $148.15, putting it -41.19% down since that peak but still an impressive 13.7% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $90.55. The company has a valuation of $88.85B, with an average of 5.78 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 5.83 million shares over the past 3 months.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for United Parcel Service, Inc (UPS), translating to a mean rating of 2.12. Of 18 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 2 analyst(s) give UPS a Sell rating. 1 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 6 advise Hold as 9 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at 1.58.
United Parcel Service, Inc (NYSE:UPS) trade information
After registering a -0.58% downside in the latest session, United Parcel Service, Inc (UPS) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 4.30%, and 6.98% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -22.82%. Short interest in United Parcel Service, Inc (NYSE:UPS) saw shorts transact 16.44 million shares and set a 3.34 days time to cover.
The extremes give us $45 and $115 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, UPS has been trading -9.6% off suggested target high and 57.11% from its likely low.
United Parcel Service, Inc (UPS) estimates and forecasts
The rating firms project that company’s revenue will shrink -4.17% compared to the previous financial year.
Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 20 analysts is 20.86B. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 19 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 20.91B.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 21.82B and 22.25B respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to fall -4.39% before dropping -6.00% in the following quarter.
An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings grew an estimated 5.76% for the past 5-year period. While 2025 is set for a -9.49% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 3.52% annually.
UPS Dividends
United Parcel Service, Inc has its next earnings report out on 2025-Apr-29. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. United Parcel Service, Inc has a forward dividend ratio of 6.54, with the share yield ticking at 6.23% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 3.54%.
United Parcel Service, Inc (NYSE:UPS)’s Major holders
United Parcel Service, Inc insiders hold 0.03% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 70.21% of the shares at 70.24% float percentage. In total, 70.21% institutions holds shares in the company, led by VANGUARD GROUP INC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 63.95 million shares (or 7.4706% of shares), all amounting to roughly $8.75 billion.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is BLACKROCK INC. with 55.37 million shares, or about 6.4682% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $7.58 billion.
We also have VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the United Parcel Service, Inc (UPS) shares. Going by data provided on Mar 31, 2025 , VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund holds roughly 23.38 shares. This is just over 3.19% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $2.45 billion. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 20.32, or 2.77% of the shares, all valued at about 2.13 billion.
