What Should Investors Know About UiPath (PATH) Stock?

By Tamara Parker • Wednesday, October 18 12:01 • Permanent Link

One of the losers of today's trading session was UiPath. Shares of the Software company plunged -4.0%, and some investors may be wondering if its price of $16.02 would make a good entry point. Here's what you should know if you are considering this investment:

UiPath has moved 36.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 18.0%
PATH has an average analyst rating of buy and is -18.94% away from its mean target price of $19.77 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $-0.28
UiPath has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of -57.2 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $0.46 and its forward P/E ratio is 34.8
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 4.58 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
UiPath is part of the Technology sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 27.16 and an average P/B of 6.23
The company has a free cash flow of $290.13 Million, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
UiPath Inc. provides an end-to-end automation platform that offers a range of robotic process automation (RPA) solutions primarily in the United States, Romania, and Japan. The company offers a suite of interrelated software to build, manage, run, engage, measure, and govern automation within the organization. Its platform combines artificial intelligence with desktop recording, back-end mining of both human activity and system logs, and intuitive visualization tools, which enables users to discover, analyze, and identify processes to automate in a centralized portal; offers low-code development environments that allows users in an organization to create attended and unattended automations without any prior knowledge of coding; deploys robots in highly immersive attended experiences or in standalone, unattended modes behind the scenes, and can leverage native connectors built for commonly used line-of-business applications; offers centralized tools designed to manage, test, and deploy automations and ML models across the enterprise; allows customers to manage long running processes that orchestrate work between robots and humans; and enable users to track, measure, and forecast the performance of automation in their enterprise and help businesses ensure compliance with business standards. In addition, the company provides maintenance and support for its software, as well as professional services, such as training and implementation services to facilitate the adoption of its platform. It serves banking, healthcare, financial services, and government entities. UiPath Inc. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

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