NYSE:ULUnilever Stock Price, Forecast & News

Unilever's stock was trading at $52.47 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, UL shares have increased by 13.5% and is now trading at $59.57.
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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 declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, July 24th. Shareholders of record on Friday, August 7th will be given a dividend of $0.4694 per share on Wednesday, September 9th. This represents a $1.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.15%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, August 6th. This is a boost 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 expect Unilever's share price to reach $45.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 24.5%.
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News stories about UL stock have been trending somewhat negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group scores the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Unilever earned a coverage optimism score of -1.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days.
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Unilever saw a decrease in short interest during the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totaling 754,700 shares, a decrease of 37.6% from the December 31st total of 1,210,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 980,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.8 days. Approximately 0.1% 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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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Unilever investors own include CA (CA), Endologix (ELGX), BlackRock (BLK), Hawkins (HWKN), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Aegean Marine Petroleum Network (ANW), Athabasca Oil (ATH), Och-Ziff Capital Management Group (OZM), Micron Technology (MU) and Transocean (RIG).

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

Unilever's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.34%), Raymond James & Associates (0.22%), Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Fiduciary Advisors LLP MA (0.16%), First Trust Advisors LP (0.07%), Morningstar Investment Services LLC (0.07%) and Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.07%).

UL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bowie Capital Management LLC, UBS Group AG, Prentiss Smith & Co. Inc., Granite Investment Advisors LLC, Manning & Napier Group LLC, Cambridge Trust Co., Morningstar Investment Services LLC, and Gabalex Capital Management LLC.

UL stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Raymond James & Associates, St. James Investment Company LLC, Saratoga Research & Investment Management, Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Sather Financial Group Inc, First Trust Advisors LP, Park Avenue Securities LLC, and Live Oak Private Wealth LLC.

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 $59.57.

Unilever has a market capitalization of $69.61 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]