Unilever Stock Forecast, Price & News

Unilever's stock was trading at $52.47 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, UL shares have increased by 16.1% and is now trading at $60.90.
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10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Unilever in the last year. There are currently 4 sell ratings, 4 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold."
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Unilever announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, July 24th. Stockholders of record on Friday, August 7th will be paid a dividend of $0.4694 per share on Wednesday, September 9th. This represents a $1.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.08%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, August 6th. This is a positive change from Unilever's previous quarterly dividend of $0.44.
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10 brokerages have issued 12-month target prices for Unilever's stock. Their forecasts range from $45.00 to $45.00. On average, they anticipate Unilever's share price to reach $45.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 26.1%.
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News coverage about UL stock has been trending somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Unilever earned a news impact score of -1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future.
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Unilever saw a decline in short interest in the month of August. As of August 14th, there was short interest totaling 2,630,000 shares, a decline of 12.6% from the July 30th total of 3,010,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,170,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.2 days. Approximately 0.2% of the company's stock are short sold.
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Some companies that are related to Unilever include Unilever (UN), Ecolab (ECL), Church & Dwight (CHD), SYMRISE AG/ADR (SYIEY) and Stepan (SCL).
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Unilever trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "UL."

Unilever's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.34%), Bank of America Corp DE (0.24%), Raymond James & Associates (0.22%), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (0.20%), Federated Hermes Inc. (0.16%) and Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Fiduciary Advisors LLP MA (0.16%).

UL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Federated Hermes Inc., Bowie Capital Management LLC, UBS Group AG, Prentiss Smith & Co. Inc., Granite Investment Advisors LLC, Manning & Napier Group LLC, and Advisor Group Holdings Inc..

UL stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Raymond James & Associates, Bank of America Corp DE, Capital Advisors Inc. OK, St. James Investment Company LLC, Saratoga Research & Investment Management, Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Cowen Investment Management LLC, and Sather Financial Group Inc.

Shares of UL 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 UL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $60.90.

Unilever has a market capitalization of $71.16 billion and generates $58.22 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $6.30 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.86 on an earnings per share basis. Unilever employs 149,867 workers across the globe.

The official website for Unilever is www.unilever.com.

Unilever's mailing address is 100 VICTORIA EMBANKMENT, LONDON X0, EC4Y 0DY. The company can be reached via phone at 44-20-7822-5252 or via email at [email protected]