Ultrapar Participações Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:UGP)

5 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Ultrapar Participações in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating and 4 hold ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "reduce" UGP shares.
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5 Wall Street research analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Ultrapar Participações' shares. Their UGP share price targets range from $3.30 to $4.60. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $3.90 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 25.6%.
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Ultrapar Participações' stock was trading at $2.42 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, UGP shares have increased by 116.5% and is now trading at $5.24.
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Ultrapar Participações saw a decrease in short interest in October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totaling 719,100 shares, a decrease of 30.9% from the October 15th total of 1,040,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,390,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 0.5 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 21st 2024.
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Ultrapar Participações S.A. (NYSE:UGP) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, November, 8th. The oil and gas company reported $0.16 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. The oil and gas company had revenue of $6.66 billion for the quarter. Ultrapar Participações had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 17.15% and a net margin of 1.69%.

Ultrapar Participações declared a semi-annual dividend on Thursday, August 10th. Investors of record on Monday, August 21st will be given a dividend of $0.0516 per share on Tuesday, September 5th. This represents a yield of 1.7%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, August 18th. This is a positive change from the stock's previous semi-annual dividend of $0.03.
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Ultrapar Participações (NYSE:UGP) pays an annual dividend of $0.09 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.75%. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 23.08%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, UGP will have a dividend payout ratio of 36.00% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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iShares Emerging Markets Infrastructure ETF holds 289,233 shares of UGP stock, representing 4.90% of its portfolio.

2 employees have rated Ultrapar Participações Chief Executive Officer Pedro Wongtschowski on Glassdoor.com. Pedro Wongtschowski has an approval rating of 58% among the company's employees. This puts Pedro Wongtschowski in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Ultrapar Participações' stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include American Century Companies Inc. (0.12%), Northern Trust Corp (0.07%), Hsbc Holdings PLC (0.04%), Optiver Holding B.V. (0.04%), The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company (0.02%) and Invesco Ltd. (0.01%).

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