In today’s recent session, 0.97 million shares of the United Parcel Service, Inc (NYSE:UPS) have been traded, and its beta is 1.19. Most recently the company’s share price was $99.63, and it changed around -$0.04 or -0.04% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $84.37B. UPS at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $148.15, offering almost -48.7% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $90.55, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 9.11% since then. We note from United Parcel Service, Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 4.29 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 6.00 million.
United Parcel Service, Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 2.18. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 1 out of 32 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 3 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 12 recommended UPS as a Hold, whereas 14 deemed it a Buy, and 2 rated it as Underweight.
United Parcel Service, Inc (NYSE:UPS) trade information
Instantly UPS has been showing red trend so far today with a performance of -0.04% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the red territory. The rise to weekly highs of 101.49 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 1.83%. The company’s shares are currently down -20.99% year-to-date, but still down -1.51% over the last five days. On the other hand, United Parcel Service, Inc (NYSE:UPS) is 0.53% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 16.62 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 2.82 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $110, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 9.43% from its current value. Analyst projections state that UPS is forecast to be at a low of $105 and a high of $115.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 5.76%. United Parcel Service, Inc earnings are expected to increase by -8.66% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 3.64% per year for the next five years.
UPS Dividends
United Parcel Service, Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-Apr-29. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 6.56 percent and its annual dividend per share was 6.54. It is important to note, however, that the 6.56% dividend yield ratio should be regarded as a guide only, as many other factors should be taken into consideration before making any investment decision. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 3.5 per year.
United Parcel Service, Inc (NYSE:UPS)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 0.03% of United Parcel Service, Inc shares, and 70.25% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 70.28%. United Parcel Service, Inc stock is held by 2753.0 institutions, with VANGUARD GROUP INC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 7.4706% of the shares, which is about 63.95 million shares worth $8.75 billion.
BLACKROCK INC., with 6.4682% or 55.37 million shares worth $7.58 billion as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
