NYSE:ULUnilever Stock Price, Forecast & 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 3.3% and is now trading at $54.21. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

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." View analyst ratings for Unilever.

Unilever announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, April 27th. Stockholders of record on Friday, May 15th will be given a dividend of $0.4445 per share on Thursday, June 4th. This represents a $1.78 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.28%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, May 14th. View Unilever's dividend history.

10 analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Unilever's shares. Their forecasts range from $45.00 to $45.00. On average, they anticipate Unilever's stock price to reach $45.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 17.0%. View analysts' price targets for Unilever.

Media stories about UL stock have trended very negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group scores the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Unilever earned a coverage optimism score of -3.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future. View the latest news about Unilever.

Unilever saw a increase in short interest in the month of June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 5,160,000 shares, an increase of 10.7% from the June 15th total of 4,660,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,570,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.3 days. Approximately 0.4% of the company's shares are sold short. View Unilever's Current Options Chain.

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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 retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.34%), Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.07%), Cardinal Capital Management Inc. (0.01%), Courier Capital LLC (0.01%), Whittier Trust Co. (0.01%) and Old Port Advisors (0.01%).

UL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Manning & Napier Group LLC, Gradient Investments LLC, Triangle Securities Wealth Management, Courier Capital LLC, Whittier Trust Co., Watchman Group Inc., Whittier Trust Co. of Nevada Inc., and Forte Capital LLC ADV.

UL stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Cardinal Capital Management Inc., Fulton Bank N. A., Private Trust Co. NA, Vigilant Capital Management LLC, Global Trust Asset Management LLC, Old Port Advisors, and Traverso Chambers Private Wealth Management 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 $54.21.

Unilever has a market capitalization of $63.35 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]