UGI Corp. (UGI) Clearly Signals Buy-Into the Stock: Don’t ignore the signals

With 2.82 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 2.1 million shares. During the session, the Utilities – Regulated Gas company that operates in wider Utilities sector, reached to the highest price of $24.93 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $24.45. The 52-week range on UGI shows that it touched its highest point at $30.67 and its lowest point at $20.19 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $30.67. With its current market cap of 5.15 billion, UGI has annualized dividend of $1.50 while the current yield stands at 6.11%. UGI paid its most recent dividend on 1710374400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1718323200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.16.

Price Performance and Earnings:

Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of UGI was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -3.95%, but this was down by -0.97% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 3.37% while six-month performance rose 9.79%. The stock lost -19.51% in the past year, while it has lost -0.20% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for UGI yields -0.41 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.00. For the next quarter, that number is -0.05. This implies an EPS growth rate of 1.41% for this year and 4.05% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 209.50 million UGI shares are outstanding with a float of 208.65 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-04-15, short shares totaled 5.03 million, which was 240.0 higher than short shares on 1710460800. In addition to Mr. Jean Felix-Tematio Dontsop as the firm’s VP, Chief Accounting Officer & Controller, Tameka Morris serves as its Director of Investor Relations.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.85008 of UGI’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

An Overview of Recent Financials:

Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-03-31, UGI reported revenue of $2467000000.0 and operating income of $717000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $867000000.0 and diluted EPS was $2.3.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for UGI since 0 analysts follow the stock currently. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential.