NYSE:ULUnilever Stock Price, Forecast & 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 4.0% and is now trading at $54.59. 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 declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, April 27th. Stockholders of record on Friday, May 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.4445 per share on Thursday, June 4th. This represents a $1.78 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.26%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 14th. View Unilever's dividend history.

10 equities research analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Unilever's shares. 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 17.6%. View analysts' price targets for Unilever.

Headlines about UL stock have trended negative this week, according to InfoTrie. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Unilever earned a news sentiment score of -2.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media coverage 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 stock'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 trading volume of 1,570,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.3 days. Currently, 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 many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Courier Capital LLC (0.01%), Fulton Bank N. A. (0.00%), Watchman Group Inc. (0.00%), Private Trust Co. NA (0.00%) and Ellevest Inc. (0.00%).

UL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Courier Capital LLC, and Watchman Group Inc..

UL stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Fulton Bank N. A., Private Trust Co. NA, and Ellevest 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 $54.59.

Unilever has a market capitalization of $63.79 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]