Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE:UNP) saw a downside of -0.07% to $228.46 after subtracting -$0.17 on Wednesday. The 5-day average trading volume is 2,147,221 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $232.82 in the past week and touched a new high 2 times within the past 5 days. An average of 3,361,130 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 2,870,652.
UNP’s 1-month performance is 10.48% or $25.16 on its low of $202.43 reached on 07/10/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $183.69 and high of $242.35, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 07/26/23. YTD, UNP has achieved 10.33% or $20.91 and has reached a new high 9 times. However, the current price is down -5.73% from the 52-week high price.
Insider Transactions
UNP stock investors last saw insider trading activity on Feb 27.Whited Elizabeth F (EVP SUSTAINABILITY & STRATEGY) most recently sold 2,500 shares at $213.00 per share on Feb 27. This transaction cost the insider $532,500.
Valuation Metrics
UNP stock has a beta of 1.11. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 5.66 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 10.54, with the price to cash flow ratio at 61.43.
Union Pacific Corporation’s quick ratio for the period ended June 29 was 0.60, with the current ratio over the same period at 0.70. As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending June 29 was 2.39, while the total debt to equity was 2.52. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 76.70%. The trailing 12-month EBITDA margin is 48.90% while for the period ending June 29, Union Pacific Corporation’s operating margin was 39.00%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $14.35 billion against revenue of $24.88 billion.
Earnings Surprise
For the quarterly period ending June 29 this year, Net income and sales went down compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Net income shrunk -16.95% to $1.57 billion, while revenue of $1.63 billion was -3.89% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected UNP to announce $2.75 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted $2.57, representing a -6.50% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $2.78 billion. UNP stock balance sheet for the quarter ending June 29 shows that total liabilities totaled 52.84 billion, with total debt at $34.87 billion. Shareholders hold equity totaling $609.46 million.
Let’s look briefly at Union Pacific Corporation (UNP) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 08 August was 59.82% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 5.38%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $228.95, reflecting a -0.96% or -$2.22 change from its current price. UNP is currently trading +9.12% above its 20-day SMA, +18.18% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by +18.06% and SMA200 by+22.27%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 58.83% and 61.02% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 4.31. The RSI (14) points at 63.63%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 56.06% with the period’s ATR at 4.30. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -1.37 and 0.87 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP), Atlantic Equities downgraded it to a Neutral rating. They previously had an Overweight rating on the stock.
