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

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

Ulta Beauty declared that its board has authorized a share buyback plan on Friday, March 16th 2018, which authorizes the company to buyback $625,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are generally an indication that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Ulta Beauty Inc (NASDAQ:ULTA) announced its earnings results on Thursday, December, 5th. The specialty retailer reported $2.25 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $2.13 by $0.12. The specialty retailer earned $1.68 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.69 billion. Ulta Beauty had a net margin of 9.67% and a return on equity of 36.91%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 7.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $2.18 EPS. View Ulta Beauty's Earnings History.

Ulta Beauty is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, March 12th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Ulta Beauty.

Ulta Beauty will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, March 12th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Ulta Beauty updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Thursday, December, 5th. The company provided EPS guidance of $11.93-12.03 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $11.92. The company issued revenue guidance of +10% to $7.39 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $7.41 billion.

23 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Ulta Beauty's shares. Their forecasts range from $228.00 to $330.00. On average, they expect Ulta Beauty's stock price to reach $283.73 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 3.7% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Ulta Beauty.

23 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Ulta Beauty in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 10 hold ratings and 12 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Ulta Beauty.

Media stories about ULTA stock have been trending somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Ulta Beauty earned a daily sentiment score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the specialty retailer a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Ulta Beauty.

Ulta Beauty saw a increase in short interest in December. As of December 13th, there was short interest totalling 4,670,000 shares, an increase of 12.5% from the November 28th total of 4,150,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,520,700 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.1 days. Approximately 8.6% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Ulta Beauty's Current Options Chain.

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Ulta Beauty's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Alecta Pensionsforsakring Omsesidigt (1.21%), California Public Employees Retirement System (0.46%), SPF Beheer BV (0.44%), Anchor Capital Advisors LLC (0.40%), Hexavest Inc. (0.33%) and Douglas Lane & Associates LLC (0.14%). Company insiders that own Ulta Beauty stock include Catherine Ann Halligan, Charles Heilbronn, Charles J Philippin, David C Kimbell, Dennis K Eck, Jeffrey J Childs, Lorna Nagler, Mary N Dillon, Robert F Diromualdo, Sally E Blount, Scott M Settersten and Vanessa Ames Wittman. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Ulta Beauty.

ULTA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Strs Ohio, California Public Employees Retirement System, Gillespie Robinson & Grimm Inc., Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Valicenti Advisory Services Inc., State of Alaska Department of Revenue, New York State Teachers Retirement System and Arizona State Retirement System. Company insiders that have sold Ulta Beauty company stock in the last year include Catherine Ann Halligan, Charles Heilbronn, David C Kimbell, Dennis K Eck, Jeffrey J Childs, Lorna Nagler, Mary N Dillon, Robert F Diromualdo, Sally E Blount and Scott M Settersten. View Insider Buying and Selling for Ulta Beauty.

ULTA stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Alecta Pensionsforsakring Omsesidigt, Anchor Capital Advisors LLC, Tocqueville Asset Management L.P., Douglas Lane & Associates LLC, Janney Capital Management LLC, CLARET ASSET MANAGEMENT Corp, Atalanta Sosnoff Capital LLC and Eidelman Virant Capital. Company insiders that have bought Ulta Beauty stock in the last two years include Charles Heilbronn and Mary N Dillon. View Insider Buying and Selling for Ulta Beauty.

Shares of ULTA can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of ULTA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $273.70.

Ulta Beauty has a market capitalization of $15.64 billion and generates $6.72 billion in revenue each year. The specialty retailer earns $658.56 million in net income (profit) each year or $10.85 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]