Univar Solutions (UNVR) Stock Forecast, Price & News

7 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Univar Solutions in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" UNVR shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in UNVR, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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7 brokers have issued 12 month price targets for Univar Solutions' shares. Their UNVR share price forecasts range from $29.00 to $40.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $35.33 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.9%.
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Univar Solutions' stock was trading at $31.80 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, UNVR shares have increased by 12.1% and is now trading at $35.66.
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Univar Solutions saw a increase in short interest in the month of April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totaling 4,210,000 shares, an increase of 31.2% from the April 15th total of 3,210,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 3,140,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.3 days. Approximately 2.7% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, August 7th 2023.
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Univar Solutions Inc. (NYSE:UNVR) announced its quarterly earnings data on Monday, May, 8th. The basic materials company reported $0.63 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.58 by $0.05. The basic materials company earned $2.68 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.43 billion. Univar Solutions had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 19.05% and a net margin of 3.97%. The business's revenue was down 6.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $1.07 earnings per share.

ETFs with the largest weight of Univar Solutions (NYSE:UNVR) stock in their portfolio include IQ Merger Arbitrage ETF (MNA), First Trust Materials AlphaDEX Fund (FXZ), ProShares Merger ETF (MRGR), Invesco S&P MidCap 400 Pure Value ETF (RFV), Invesco S&P MidCap Value with Momentum ETF (XMVM), Qraft AI-Enhanced Next Value ETF (NVQ), Fidelity Small-Mid Cap Opportunities ETF (FSMO) and LeaderShares AlphaFactor US Core Equity ETF (LSAF).

112 employees have rated Univar Solutions Chief Executive Officer David Jukes on Glassdoor.com. David Jukes has an approval rating of 80% among the company's employees.

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(UNVR) raised $420 million in an IPO on Thursday, June 18th 2015. The company issued 20,000,000 shares at a price of $20.00-$22.00 per share. Deutsche Bank Securities, Goldman Sachs and BofA Merrill Lynch acted as the underwriters for the IPO and Barclays, Credit Suisse, J.P. Morgan, Jefferies, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, HSBC, Moeli, Wells Fargo Securities, Lazard, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey and William Blair were co-managers.

Univar Solutions trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "UNVR."

Univar Solutions' stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (10.63%), BlackRock Inc. (9.42%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (3.35%), State Street Corp (2.89%), Franklin Resources Inc. (2.32%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (1.46%). Insiders that own company stock include Christopher D Pappas, David Jukes, Jennifer Mcintyre, Kelly O'hanlon, Nicholas Powell, Nicholas W Alexos, Pat Jerding and Stephen D Newlin.
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Shares of UNVR stock 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.
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One share of UNVR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $35.66.

Univar Solutions (NYSE:UNVR) has a market capitalization of $5.63 billion and generates $11.48 billion in revenue each year. The basic materials company earns $545.30 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.70 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 9,746 workers across the globe.

Univar Solutions' mailing address is 3075 HIGHLAND PARKWAY SUITE 200, DOWNERS GROVE IL, 60515. The official website for the company is www.univar.com. The basic materials company can be reached via phone at (331) 777-6000 or via email at ir@univar.com.