Univar Solutions - UNVR Stock Forecast, Price & News

8 Wall Street research 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 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research 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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8 brokerages have issued 12 month target prices for Univar Solutions' stock. Their UNVR share price forecasts range from $29.00 to $40.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $36.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 3.0% from the stock's current price.
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Univar Solutions' stock was trading at $31.80 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, UNVR shares have increased by 9.9% and is now trading at $34.96.
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Univar Solutions saw a drop in short interest during the month of February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totaling 3,260,000 shares, a drop of 30.9% from the February 13th total of 4,720,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,350,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.4 days. Currently, 2.1% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, May 8th 2023.
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Univar Solutions Inc. (NYSE:UNVR) released its earnings results on Tuesday, February, 21st. The basic materials company reported $0.47 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.56 by $0.09. The basic materials company earned $2.59 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.71 billion. Univar Solutions had a net margin of 4.75% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 22.44%. The business's revenue was up 3.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $0.60 earnings per share.

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

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 initial public offering (IPO) on Thursday, June 18th 2015. The company issued 20,000,000 shares at $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 a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Franklin Resources Inc. (4.43%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (3.12%), First Pacific Advisors LP (2.57%), T. Rowe Price Investment Management Inc. (2.08%), River Road Asset Management LLC (1.54%) and Paradice Investment Management LLC (1.52%). 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 $34.96.

Univar Solutions (NYSE:UNVR) has a market capitalization of $5.51 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 $3.24 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.