Unilever - ULVR Share Forecast, Price & News

Unilever PLC operates as a fast-moving consumer goods company. It operates through Beauty & Personal Care, Foods & Refreshment, and Home Care segments. The Beauty & Personal Care segment provides skin care and hair care products, deodorants, and skin cleansing products. The Foods & Refreshment segment offers ice cream, soups, bouillons, seasonings, mayonnaise, ketchups, and tea categories. The Home Care segment provides fabric solutions and various cleaning products. The company offers its products under the Domestos, OMO, Seventh Generation, Ben & Jerry's, Knorr, Magnum, Wall's, Bango, the Vegetarian Butcher, Axe, Cif, Comfort, Dove, Lifebuoy, Lux, Rexona, Sunsilk, Equilibra, OLLY, Liquid I.V., SmartyPants, Onnit, Hellmann's, and Vaseline brands. Unilever PLC was incorporated in 1894 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Unilever Price Performance

Shares of ULVR Stock opened at GBX 3,980 ($48.09) on Tuesday. The stock has a 50-day moving average price of GBX 3,804.59 and a 200 day moving average price of GBX 3,673.89. The company has a quick ratio of 0.49, a current ratio of 0.80 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 148.52. The firm has a market cap of £101.43 billion and a price-to-earnings ratio of 2,117.46. Unilever has a 12 month low of GBX 3,267.50 ($39.48) and a 12 month high of GBX 4,170.50 ($50.39).

Unilever Increases Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, September 1st. Investors of record on Thursday, August 4th will be given a GBX 36.33 ($0.44) dividend. This represents a yield of 0.93%. This is a positive change from Unilever's previous dividend of $35.90. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, August 4th. Unilever's dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 90.55%.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of brokerages have issued reports on ULVR. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft raised Unilever to a "buy" rating and set a GBX 4,600 ($55.58) price objective for the company in a report on Wednesday, July 27th. UBS Group set a GBX 3,400 ($41.08) price objective on Unilever in a report on Tuesday, July 26th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. set a GBX 3,600 ($43.50) price objective on Unilever in a report on Tuesday, July 26th. Barclays set a GBX 4,300 ($51.96) price objective on Unilever in a report on Wednesday, July 27th. Finally, Jefferies Financial Group set a GBX 4,130 ($49.90) price objective on Unilever in a report on Tuesday, July 26th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, four have assigned a hold rating and two have assigned a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the company currently has an average rating of "Hold" and a consensus target price of GBX 4,016.15 ($48.53).