During the recent session, Ulta Beauty Inc (NASDAQ:ULTA)’s traded shares were 1.97 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.04. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $476.25, reflecting an intraday gain of 12.91% or $54.46. The 52-week high for the ULTA share is $460.00, that puts it up 3.41 from that peak though still a striking 35.12% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $309.01. The company’s market capitalization is $21.50B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 0.8 million shares, and the average trade volume was 998.80K shares over the past three months.
Ulta Beauty Inc (ULTA) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.23. ULTA has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 17 analysts who have looked at this stock. 7 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 1 suggest Overweight, and 9 recommend a Buy rating for it.
Ulta Beauty Inc (NASDAQ:ULTA) trade information
Ulta Beauty Inc (ULTA) registered a 12.91% upside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 12.91% in intraday trading to $476.25, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 16.05%, and it has moved by 20.37% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 24.96%. The short interest in Ulta Beauty Inc (NASDAQ:ULTA) is 3.09 million shares and it means that shorts have 4.57 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $460, which implies a decrease of -3.53% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $425 and $538 respectively. As a result, ULTA is trading at a discount of -12.97% off the target high and 10.76% off the low.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 15.84%. While earnings are projected to return -8.15% in 2025, the next five years will return 4.03% per annum.
ULTA Dividends
Ulta Beauty Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-May-28. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.
Ulta Beauty Inc (NASDAQ:ULTA)’s Major holders
Ulta Beauty Inc insiders own 0.25% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 97.11%, with the float percentage being 97.35%. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the largest shareholder of the company, while 1361.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 5.57 million shares (or 11.7149% of all shares), a total value of $2.15 billion in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 4.45 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 9.3636% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $1.72 billion.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Ulta Beauty Inc (ULTA) shares are VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund . Data provided on Mar 31, 2025 indicates that VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund owns about 1.47 shares. This amounts to just over 3.25 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $694.22 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 1.29, or about 2.85% of the stock, which is worth about $610.16 million.
