Here's What You May Have Missed About UBS(UBS)

By Tamara Parker • Wednesday, December 20 11:55 • Permanent Link

More and more people are talking about UBS over the last few weeks. Is it worth buying the Banking stock at a price of $30.83? Only time will tell. The information below will give you a basic idea of what this investment may entail:

UBS has moved 65.8% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 22.9%
UBS has an average analyst rating of buy and is -8.68% away from its mean target price of $33.76 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $9.46
UBS has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 3.3 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $1.66 and its forward P/E ratio is 18.6
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 1.17 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
UBS is part of the Finance sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 12.38 and an average P/B of 1.58
UBS Group AG provides financial advice and solutions to private, institutional, and corporate clients worldwide. It operates through four divisions: Global Wealth Management, Personal & Corporate Banking, Asset Management, and Investment Bank. The Global Wealth Management division offers investment advice and solutions, and lending solutions. This segment also provides estate and wealth planning, investing, corporate and banking, and investment management, as well as mortgage, securities-based, and structured lending solutions. The Personal & Corporate Banking division provides personal banking products and services, such as deposits, cards, and online and mobile banking, as well as lending, investments, and retirement services; and corporate and institutional solutions, including equity and debt capital markets, syndicated and structured credit, private placements, leasing, traditional financing, trade and export finance, and global custody solutions, as well as transaction banking solutions for payment and cash management. The Asset Management division offers equities, fixed income, hedge funds, real estate and private markets, indexed and alternative beta strategies, asset allocation and currency investment strategies, customized multi-asset solutions, advisory and fiduciary services, and multi-manager hedge fund solutions and advisory services. The Investment Bank division advises clients on strategic business opportunities and helps them raise capital to fund their activities; enables its clients to buy, sell, and finance securities on capital markets and to manage their risks and liquidity; distribute, trade, finance, and clear cash equities and equity-linked products; and offers clients differentiated content on major financial markets and securities. The company was formerly known as UBS AG and changed its name to UBS Group AG in December 2014. UBS Group AG was founded in 1862 and is based in Zurich, Switzerland.

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