Unilever Stock Forecast, Price & News

Unilever's stock was trading at $52.47 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, UL stock has increased by 14.2% and is now trading at $59.92.
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11 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Unilever in the last year. There are currently 5 sell ratings, 4 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" Unilever stock. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in UL, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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6,978 employees have rated Unilever CEO Larry J. Merlo on Glassdoor.com. Larry J. Merlo has an approval rating of 37% among Unilever's employees. This puts Larry J. Merlo in the bottom 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Unilever is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 4th 2021.
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Unilever declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, October 23rd. Investors of record on Friday, October 30th will be given a dividend of $0.4845 per share on Friday, November 20th. This represents a $1.94 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.23%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, October 29th. This is a positive change from Unilever's previous quarterly dividend of $0.47.
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Unilever pays an annual dividend of $1.83 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.07%. The dividend payout ratio of Unilever is 63.99%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Unilever will have a dividend payout ratio of 60.60% next year. This indicates that Unilever will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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11 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Unilever's stock. Their forecasts range from $45.00 to $45.00. On average, they anticipate Unilever's stock price to reach $45.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 24.9%.
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Unilever saw a decline in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totaling 1,380,000 shares, a decline of 66.5% from the December 15th total of 4,120,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,570,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 0.9 days. Currently, 0.1% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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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 number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.33%), Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Fiduciary Advisors LLP MA (0.15%), Scharf Investments LLC (0.15%), Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.04%), Crossmark Global Holdings Inc. (0.03%) and Gofen & Glossberg LLC IL (0.03%).

UL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Manning & Napier Group LLC, Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Fiduciary Advisors LLP MA, Lincoln Capital LLC, Beese Fulmer Investment Management Inc., Arden Trust Co, OLD National Bancorp IN, Harrington Investments INC, and Advisors Management Group Inc. ADV.

UL stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Scharf Investments LLC, Wedge Capital Management L L P NC, Gofen & Glossberg LLC IL, Crossmark Global Holdings Inc., Rockland Trust Co., Mirador Capital Partners LP, FWL Investment Management LLC, and Kestra Advisory Services LLC.

Shares of UL 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.

One share of UL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $59.92.

Unilever has a market capitalization of $70.02 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]