Unilever (UL) Stock Forecast, Price & News

5 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Unilever in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" UL shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in UL, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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5 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Unilever's shares. Their UL share price forecasts range from $46.00 to $46.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $46.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 12.6%.
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Unilever's stock was trading at $50.35 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, UL shares have increased by 4.6% and is now trading at $52.66.
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Unilever saw a drop in short interest in the month of April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totaling 2,750,000 shares, a drop of 17.7% from the April 15th total of 3,340,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,960,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.4 days. Approximately 0.1% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
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Unilever declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, April 27th. Stockholders of record on Friday, May 19th will be given a dividend of $0.4569 per share on Thursday, June 15th. This represents a $1.83 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.47%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 18th.
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Unilever (NYSE:UL) pays an annual dividend of $1.81 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.35%. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 59.74%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, UL will have a dividend payout ratio of 62.20% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Unilever trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "UL."

Unilever's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Wellington Management Group LLP (1.40%), BlackRock Inc. (0.77%), Bank of America Corp DE (0.41%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (0.33%), FMR LLC (0.29%) and Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC (0.27%).

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One share of UL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $52.66.

Unilever (NYSE:UL) has a market capitalization of $132.99 billion and generates $63.30 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $8.05 billion in net income (profit) each year or $3.03 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 148,000 workers across the globe.

Unilever's mailing address is 100 VICTORIA EMBANKMENT, LONDON X0, EC4Y 0DY. The official website for the company is www.unilever.com. The company can be reached via phone at 442078225252, via email at investor.relations@unilever.com, or via fax at 44-0-20-7822-5464.