UBS Group AG (NYSE:UBS) finished Thursday with an addition of $0.36 to close at $24.70, an upside of 1.48 percent. An average of 3,367,920 shares of common stock have been traded in the last five days. There was a fall of -$0.96 in the past week, and it reached a new high 40 times over the past 12 months. The last 20 days have seen an average of 3,668,260 shares traded, while the 50-day average volume stands at 3,204,128.
UBS stock has decreased by -1.75% in the last month. The company shares reached their 1-month lowest point of $24.03 on 09/27/23. With the stock rallying to its 52-week high on 08/31/23, shares of the company touched a low of $13.62 and a high of $26.97 in 52 weeks. It has reached a new high 26 times so far this year and achieved 34.01% or $6.03 in price. In spite of this, the price is down -8.42% from the 52-week high.
Valuation Metrics
UBS Group AG (UBS) has a trailing price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 2.39. The stock’s beta is 1.10. Other valuation ratios to consider include the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio at 1.69, the price-to-book (PB) ratio at 0.92, and the price-to-cash flow ratio at 10.19.
The company has a payout ratio of 22.25%. The company’s most recent quarterly dividend payment was $0.1790 a share, representing a down of -64.2% from $0.50 last year. Its latest decrease dividend $0.3210 reported on Tuesday January 31 2023.
Financial Health
Further, the company has a long term debt to equity ratio of 4.83 and a total debt to equity ratio of 5.55 for the quarter ending June 29. Its gross profit as reported stood at $6.62 billion compared to revenue of $11.78 billion.
Earnings Surprise
The analyst consensus anticipated UBS Group AG’s latest quarter earnings to come in at $0.49 per share, but it turned out to be -$0.02, a -104.10% surprise. At the end of the quarter ending June 29, UBS Group AG’s stock balance sheet showed total debt was $689.62 billion.
Technical Picture
From a technical analysis perspective, let’s take a brief look at UBS Group AG (UBS) price momentum. RSI 9-day as of the close on 28 September was 37.41%, suggesting the stock is Neutral, with historical volatility in this time frame at 20.06%.
As of today, UBS’s price is $24.97 -3.74% or -$0.96 from its 5-day moving average. UBS is currently trading -2.33% lower than its 20-day SMA and +25.25% higher than its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is +15.80% above the SMA50 and +35.42% above the SMA200.
The stochastic %K and %D were 14.32% and 12.00%, respectively, and the average true range (ATR) was 0.48. With the 14-day stochastic at 26.33% and the average true range at 0.47, the RSI (14) stands at 45.51%. The stock has reached -0.71 on the 9-day MACD Oscillator while the 14-day reading was at -0.89.
