UGI - UGI Stock Forecast, Price & News

3 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for UGI in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating and 2 hold ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" UGI shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in UGI, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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3 equities research analysts have issued 1-year target prices for UGI's stock. Their UGI share price forecasts range from $36.00 to $41.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $38.67 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.2%.
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UGI's stock was trading at $45.91 at the start of the year. Since then, UGI shares have decreased by 15.6% and is now trading at $38.73.
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UGI saw a increase in short interest in October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totaling 4,410,000 shares, an increase of 20.2% from the October 15th total of 3,670,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,110,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.0 days. Approximately 2.1% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 1st 2023.
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UGI Co. (NYSE:UGI) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, November, 18th. The utilities provider reported ($0.33) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.26) by $0.07. The utilities provider had revenue of $1.44 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.26 billion. UGI had a net margin of 10.62% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 10.91%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 27.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned ($0.14) EPS.

UGI announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, November 17th. Investors of record on Thursday, December 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.36 per share on Sunday, January 1st. This represents a $1.44 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.72%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, December 14th.
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UGI (NYSE:UGI) pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.74%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 34 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 29.03%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, UGI will have a dividend payout ratio of 42.73% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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UGI shares split before market open on Monday, September 8th 2014. The 3-2 split was announced on Tuesday, July 29th 2014. The newly minted shares were distributed to shareholders after the closing bell on Friday, September 5th 2014. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 150 shares after the split.

UGI issued an update on its FY23 earnings guidance on Friday, December, 2nd. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $2.85-3.15 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $2.98.

29 employees have rated UGI Chief Executive Officer John L. Walsh on Glassdoor.com. John L. Walsh has an approval rating of 98% among the company's employees. This puts John L. Walsh in the top 20% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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UGI trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "UGI."

UGI's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (14.12%), Vanguard Group Inc. (11.49%), State Street Corp (7.57%), LSV Asset Management (1.77%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.42%) and First Trust Advisors LP (1.22%). Insiders that own company stock include Frank S Hermance, John L Walsh, Joseph L Hartz, Laurie Bergman, M Shawn Bort, Monica M Gaudiosi, Roger Perreault, Ted A Dosch and Thaddeus J Jastrzebski.
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One share of UGI stock can currently be purchased for approximately $38.73.

UGI (NYSE:UGI) has a market capitalization of $8.12 billion and generates $10.11 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $1.07 billion in net income (profit) each year or $4.96 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 4,850 workers across the globe.

UGI's mailing address is 460 NORTH GULPH ROAD, KING OF PRUSSIA PA, 19406. The official website for the company is www.ugicorp.com. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at (610) 337-1000, via email at investors@ugicorp.com, or via fax at 610-992-3259.