UiPath Inc (NYSE:PATH) shares, rose in value on Thursday, April 04, with the stock price up by 0.67% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $21.68.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $21.54. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 0.97. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $27.87, and the low was $12.38. On the whole, PATH has fluctuated by -3.28% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of UiPath Inc currently standing at about $12.28 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for May 22, 2024 – May 27, 2024. As a result, investors might want to see an improvement in the stock’s price before the company announces its earnings report. Analysts are projecting the company’s earnings per share (EPS) to be $0.11, which is expected to increase to $0.13 for fiscal year $0.57 and then to about $0.67 by fiscal year 2026. Data indicates that the EPS growth is expected to be 5.60% in 2026, while the next year’s EPS growth is forecast to be 17.50%.
Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at $333.07 million, with a low estimate of $332 million and a high estimate of $335 million. Wall Street analysts also predicted that in 2026, the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach $1.56 billion, representing an increase of 19.10% from the revenues reported in the last year’s results.
Revisions could be a useful indicator to get insight on short-term price movement; so for the company, there were no upward and no downward review(s) in last seven days. We see that PATH’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a Hold on average. However, medium term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Buy while long term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 0, with the price of PATH currently trading nearly -6.04% and -7.90% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 37.00, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 2.52% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 3.93%. Furthermore, UiPath Inc (PATH)’s beta value is 0.96, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.86.
A comparison of UiPath Inc (PATH) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. PATH showed an intraday change of 0.67% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it grew by 24.70%%.
Data on historical trading for UiPath Inc (NYSE:PATH) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 5.84 million and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 9.41 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 486.82 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 23.91% of UiPath Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 58.28% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 17.57 million shares as on Mar 15, 2024, resulting in a short ratio of 1.6. According to the data, the short interest in UiPath Inc (PATH) stood at 3.10% of shares outstanding as of Mar 15, 2024; the number of short shares registered in Feb 15, 2024 reached 18.84 million. The stock has fallen by -12.70% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the PATH stock heading into the next quarter.
