UBS Stock Analysis – A Brief Overview of UBS (UBS)

By Tamara Parker • Friday, January 03 10:14 • Permanent Link

With gains of 3.6%, UBS was one of the winners on Wall Street today. Its shares are now trading at $31.38 and have logged a 1.0% daily outperformance of the S&P 500. Don't join the feeding frenzy before checking some basic facts about this stock:

UBS has moved 1.2% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 24.9%
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $1.28
UBS has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 24.5 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $2.08 and its forward P/E ratio is 15.1
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 1.15 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 4.74
UBS is part of the Finance sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 20.04 and an average P/B of 1.86
UBS Group AG provides financial advice and solutions to private, institutional, and corporate clients worldwide. It operates through five divisions: Global Wealth Management, Personal & Corporate Banking, Asset Management, Investment Bank, and Non-core and Legacy. The company offers investment advice, estate and wealth planning, investing, corporate and banking, and investment management, as well as mortgage, securities-based, and structured lending solutions. It also provides personal banking products and services, such as deposits, credit and debit cards, and online and mobile banking, as well as lending, investments, retirement, and wealth management services; and corporate and institutional solutions, including equity and debt capital markets, syndicated and structured credit, private placements, leasing, traditional financing, and transaction banking solutions for payment and cash management services, trade and export finance, and global custody solutions. In addition, the company 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. Further, it 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 risks and liquidity; distributes, trades in, finances, and clears cash equities and equity-linked products; structures, originates, and distributes new equity and equity-linked issues; and originates, distributes, manages risk, and provides liquidity in foreign exchange, rates, credit and precious metals. 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 headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

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