Short Report on Unilever PLC Stock

By Harris Dyer • Friday, October 17 15:21 • Permanent Link

Unilever PLC logged a 1.9% change during today's afternoon session, and is now trading at a price of $63.22 per share. The S&P 500 index moved 1.0%. UL's trading volume is 2,852,366 compared to the stock's average volume of 2,494,578.

Unilever PLC trades -9.84% away from its average analyst target price of $70.11 per share. The 4 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $65.314575 to $72.55749, and on average have given Unilever PLC a rating of buy.

Anyone interested in buying UL should be aware of the facts below:

Unilever PLC's current price is 194.7% above its Graham number of $21.45, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
Unilever PLC has moved -1.5% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 13.0%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 2.6, Unilever PLC has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 24.3 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
UL has a forward P/E ratio of 18.1 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $3.5 per share
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 8.71 compared to its sector average of 2.93
Unilever PLC operates as a fast-moving consumer goods company in the Asia Pacific, Africa, the Americas, and Europe.
Based in London, the company has 115,964 full time employees and a market cap of $155.0 Billion. Unilever PLC currently returns an annual dividend yield of 3.0%.

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