Compañía Cervecerías Unidas - CCU Stock Forecast, Price & News

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Compañía Cervecerías Unidas in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" CCU shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in CCU, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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4 brokers have issued 1-year price targets for Compañía Cervecerías Unidas' shares. Their CCU share price forecasts range from $16.80 to $17.20. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $17.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 78.8% from the stock's current price.
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Compañía Cervecerías Unidas' stock was trading at $16.41 at the beginning of the year. Since then, CCU stock has decreased by 42.0% and is now trading at $9.51.
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Compañía Cervecerías Unidas saw a increase in short interest in the month of August. As of August 15th, there was short interest totaling 388,600 shares, an increase of 43.9% from the July 31st total of 270,100 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 272,900 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.4 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, November 2nd 2022.
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Compañía Cervecerías Unidas S.A. (NYSE:CCU) released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, November, 4th. The company reported $0.14 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.18 by $0.04. The company earned $527.40 million during the quarter. Compañía Cervecerías Unidas had a net margin of 6.61% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 12.28%.

Compañía Cervecerías Unidas announced a dividend on Thursday, April 14th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, April 26th will be paid a dividend of $0.308 per share on Tuesday, April 26th. The ex-dividend date is Monday, April 25th. This is a positive change from the stock's previous dividend of $0.09.
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Compañía Cervecerías Unidas (NYSE:CCU) pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 4.63%. CCU has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The dividend payout ratio is 37.61%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, CCU will have a dividend payout ratio of 52.38% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Compañía Cervecerías Unidas trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "CCU."

Compañía Cervecerías Unidas' stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Mawer Investment Management Ltd. (5.33%), Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp (0.63%), Discerene Group LP (0.40%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (0.40%), Macquarie Group Ltd. (0.33%) and Macquarie Group Ltd. (0.33%).

Shares of CCU stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of CCU stock can currently be purchased for approximately $9.51.

Compañía Cervecerías Unidas (NYSE:CCU) has a market capitalization of $1.76 billion and generates $3.23 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $258.91 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.17 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 9,346 workers across the globe.

Compañía Cervecerías Unidas' mailing address is Vitacura 2670 Twenty-Third Floor, Santiago F3, . The official website for the company is www.ccu.cl. The company can be reached via phone at (562) 427-3000, via email at investor@ccuinvestor.com, or via fax at 562-427-3333.