With 0.91 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.83 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $28.11 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $27.36. The 52-week range on UCB shows that it touched its highest point at $35.38 and its lowest point at $22.93 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $32.86. With its current market cap of 3.33 billion, UCB has annualized dividend of $0.95 while the current yield stands at 3.41%. UCB paid its most recent dividend on 1741910400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1741910400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.77.
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 UCB was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 2.09%, but this was up by 0.65% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -15.64% while six-month performance fell -2.45%. The stock gained 8.74% in the past year, while it has lost -13.71% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for UCB yields 2.11 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.71. For the next quarter, that number is 0.61. This implies an EPS growth rate of 9.23% for this year and 7.78% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 119.51 million UCB shares are outstanding with a float of 118.60 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-04-15, short shares totaled 2.41 million, which was 202.0 higher than short shares on 1741910400. In addition to Mr. Herbert Lynn Harton as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. Richard William Bradshaw serves as its President & Chief Banking Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.87516 of UCB’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With UCB analysts setting a high price target of 38.0 and a low target of 30.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 33.57143. Based on these targets, UCB could surge 36.3% to reach the target high and rise by 7.6% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 20.41% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.27013 being high and $2.20987 being low. For UCB, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.24. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.68 and the low estimate is $0.63. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.65.
