NASDAQ:ULTA - Ulta Beauty Stock Price, Forecast & News

Ulta Beauty's stock was trading at $221.21 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, ULTA stock has decreased by 20.3% and is now trading at $176.29. View which stocks have been mosted impacted by Coronavirus.

25 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Ulta Beauty in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 9 hold ratings and 15 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Ulta Beauty.

Ulta Beauty is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, June 4th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Ulta Beauty.

Ulta Beauty Inc (NASDAQ:ULTA) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, March, 12th. The specialty retailer reported $3.89 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.73 by $0.16. The specialty retailer had revenue of $2.31 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.29 billion. Ulta Beauty had a net margin of 9.54% and a return on equity of 36.75%. Ulta Beauty's revenue for the quarter was up 8.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm posted $3.61 earnings per share. View Ulta Beauty's earnings history.

Ulta Beauty announced that its board has authorized a share buyback program on Thursday, March 12th 2020, which allows the company to repurchase $1,600,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to repurchase up to 12.7% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are generally an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Ulta Beauty updated its FY21 earnings guidance on Thursday, March, 12th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $12.55-$12.75 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $13.05. The company issued revenue guidance of $7.92-$7.99 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $8.01 billion.

25 brokers have issued 12 month price targets for Ulta Beauty's stock. Their forecasts range from $190.00 to $330.00. On average, they expect Ulta Beauty's share price to reach $259.65 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 47.3% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Ulta Beauty.

News headlines about ULTA stock have trended somewhat negative recently, according to InfoTrie. The research firm identifies negative and positive press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Ulta Beauty earned a media sentiment score of -1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the specialty retailer a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View the latest news aboutUlta Beauty.

Ulta Beauty saw a drop in short interest in the month of March. As of March 13th, there was short interest totaling 3,114,400 shares, a drop of 18.0% from the February 27th total of 3,800,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,206,100 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.6 days. Approximately 5.7% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Ulta Beauty's Current Options Chain.

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Ulta Beauty trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "ULTA."

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One share of ULTA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $176.29.

Ulta Beauty has a market capitalization of $10.08 billion and generates $7.40 billion in revenue each year. The specialty retailer earns $705.95 million in net income (profit) each year or $11.91 on an earnings per share basis. Ulta Beauty employs 44,000 workers across the globe. View additional information about Ulta Beauty.

The official website for Ulta Beauty is http://www.ulta.com/.

Ulta Beauty's mailing address is 1000 REMINGTON BLVD SUITE 120, BOLINGBROOK IL, 60440. The specialty retailer can be reached via phone at 630-410-4800 or via email at [email protected]