Unisys Corporation (NYSE:UIS) saw a downside of -3.12% to close Friday at $3.72 after subtracting -$0.12 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 447,040 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $4.30 in the past week and touched a new high 1 time within the past 5 days. An average of 613,150 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 733,186.
UIS’s 1-month performance is -32.73% or -$1.71 on its low of $3.67 reached on 08/18/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $3.05 and high of $10.52, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 02/02/23. YTD, UIS has lost -27.20% or -$1.39 and has reached a new high 4 times. However, the current price is down -64.64% from the 52-week high price.
Valuation Metrics
UIS stock has a beta of 0.75. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 0.13 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 21.88, with the price to cash flow ratio at 4.79.
Unisys Corporation’s quick ratio for the period ended June 29 was 1.50, with the current ratio over the same period at 1.50. As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending June 29 was 42.85, while the total debt to equity was 44.12. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 28.30%. The trailing 12-month EBITDA margin is 14.55% while for the period ending June 29, Unisys Corporation’s operating margin was 4.60%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $529.6 million against revenue of $1.98 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 grew 57.25% to -$40.0 million, while revenue of -$175.4 million was -338.5% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected UIS to announce -$0.4 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted -$0.09, representing a 77.50% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $32.4 million. UIS stock balance sheet for the quarter ending June 29 shows that total liabilities totaled 1.98 billion, with total debt at $527.8 million. Shareholders hold equity totaling $68.3 million.
Let’s look briefly at Unisys Corporation (UIS) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 18 August was 17.45% to suggest the stock is trending oversold, with historical volatility in this time period at 24.52%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $3.95, reflecting a -12.88% or -$0.55 change from its current price. UIS is currently trading -31.62% above its 20-day SMA, +5.68% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by -12.06% and SMA200 by-56.24%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 1.40% and 2.09% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 0.25. The RSI (14) points at 27.40%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 2.53% with the period’s ATR at 0.26. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -0.24 and -0.51 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS), Maxim Group downgraded it to a Hold rating. They previously had a Buy rating on the stock.
