UPS stock price:$120.53-1.82%At close on November 19th, 2019
Updated on: November 19th, 2019
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United Parcel Service slipped a rough -1.82% and closed at $120.53.
United Parcel Service, Inc. provides letter and package delivery, specialized transportation, logistics, and financial services.
Should I buy UPS stock?
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None of our preferred buy setups matches with United Parcel Service stock situation right now, therefore this is not a suitable entry point.
Buy setup
Elegible
New all-time high
No
New 52 week high
No
Price crossing up 200d MA
No
100d MA crossing up 200d MA
No
This is not a selling recommendation at all, just it's not the best moment to buy if you follow any of these trading strategies.
Is United Parcel Service stock a buy?
Financial institutions and banks post stock ratings everyday.
At Stocks2.com, we gathered 15 ratings published for UPS stock in the last 30 days.The general sentiment of these ratings is bullish for UPS stock, with 9 positive ratings.
Is UPS a good stock to buy?
Date
Analyst / Broker
Previous rating
Current rating
2019-9-9
Bank of America
n/a
Buy
2019-8-26
Daiwa Capital Markets
Neutral
Outperform
2019-7-31
Credit Suisse Group
n/a
Neutral
2019-7-29
Stifel Nicolaus
Buy
Hold
2019-7-26
Berenberg Bank
n/a
Buy
2019-7-25
UBS Group
n/a
Buy
2019-7-25
Raymond James
n/a
Strong-Buy
2019-7-25
Loop Capital
n/a
Buy
2019-7-25
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
n/a
Neutral
2019-7-25
Credit Suisse Group
n/a
Neutral
2019-7-25
Bank of America
Neutral
Buy
2019-7-10
Goldman Sachs Group
n/a
Buy
2019-5-31
UBS Group
n/a
Buy
2019-4-26
Raymond James
Strong-Buy
Strong-Buy
2019-4-1
Berenberg Bank
Hold
Buy
UPS stock analysis
Daily outlook
Shares of United Parcel Service ended today at $120.53 and slipped a rough -1.82%.
United Parcel Service shares slipped -1.82% to $120.53 today. Since price and SMA200d lines crossed up on July, UPS climbed $18.19 (17.77%). On August, SMA50d and SMA100d crossed up triggering a rise of 5.83%.
UPS stock chart (daily)
Weekly outlook
United Parcel Service ended this week at $120.53 and eased a fatal -2.59%.
Since price and SMA40w lines crossed up late July, UPS climbed $18.88 (18.57%). Since mid June when SMA20w and SMA40w crossed up, UPS price gained $23.88 per share (24.71%).
UPS stock chart (weekly)
UPS stock price history
UPS IPO was on November 10th, 1999 at $39.64 per share1. Since then, UPS stock surged a 204.10%, with a yearly average of 10.20%. If you had invested right after UPS's IPO a $1,000 in UPS stock in 1999, it would worth $2,041.00 today.
1: Adjusted price after possible price splits or reverse-splits.
UPS stock historical price chart
UPS stock reached 52-week highs on Nov/8 at $124.34, and all-time highs 2018-01-18 with a price of 126.8.
UPS stock price target is $124.80
Nobody can reliably foresee how stock prices may evolve in the future. However, financial institutions invest time and resources to provide the most accurated estimations to help investors to make their decisions. You should not follow the analysts' UPS stock price predictions in the hope that they will be met as they may be wrong and not met. We detected 10 price predictions for United Parcel Service stock published in the last 30 days:
UPS stock price predictions
Date
Analyst / Broker
Action
Previous target
Current target
Diff
2019-9-9
Bank of America
Reiterates
$130.00
$135.00
3.8%
2019-7-31
Credit Suisse Group
Set Price Target
n/a
$119.00
-
2019-7-29
Stifel Nicolaus
Downgrades
n/a
$118.00
-
2019-7-25
UBS Group
Raises Target
n/a
$128.00
-
2019-7-25
Raymond James
Raises Target
$130.00
$135.00
3.8%
2019-7-25
Loop Capital
Raises Target
n/a
$140.00
-
2019-7-25
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Set Price Target
n/a
$114.00
-
2019-7-25
Credit Suisse Group
Raises Target
$113.00
$119.00
5.3%
2019-5-31
UBS Group
Lowers Target
$118.00
$110.00
-6.8%
2019-4-26
Raymond James
Lowers Target
$135.00
$130.00
-3.7%
(in average)
$125.20
$124.80
0.0%
Moving in a range from $140.00 and $110.00, the price prediction for United Parcel Service stock is $124.80. In average, analysts' outlook on UPS price target is stable from previous estimations.
Financials and fundamental analysis
Earnings date and Earnings per Share
Since April, when United Parcel Service presented its last earnings report, it .As soon as we get its posted EPS from the earnings report, we will extend this review.
UPS earnings date and EPS evolution
Quarter
Reporting date
Estimated EPS
Actual EPS
Surprise
2017-Q2
-
n/a
1.58
n/a
2017-Q3
2017-10-26
1.45
1.45
0.0%
2017-Q4
2018-02-01
1.66
1.67
0.6%
2018-Q1
2018-04-26
1.54
1.55
0.6%
2018-Q2
2018-07-25
1.92
1.94
1.0%
2018-Q3
2018-10-24
1.82
1.82
0.0%
2018-Q4
2019-01-31
1.91
1.94
1.6%
2019-Q1
2019-04-25
1.46
n/a
n/a
2019-Q2
-
n/a
n/a
n/a
2019-Q3
-
n/a
n/a
n/a
Annual financial results
Compared to 2017, last anual sales report draw a remarkable growth of 7.92% to $71,861.00 million dollars.When comparing 2018 vs 2017, instead, profit margin (that is, the net income divided by revenues) stayed steady a -0.70% to 6.67%.United Parcel Service presents anual results in December, and to evaluate its evolution since then, we estimate annual sales and income figures by adding results from the last 4 quarters. This is called TTM (or Twelve Trailing Months). So, United Parcel Service TTM sales up to March 2019 were $71,908.00 and income $4,557.00 M USD.If we compare this TTM figures with the last reported annuality, we can esteem United Parcel Service business evolution since December 2018: Annual revenues up to March, compared to lastest yearly report, remained stable a tight 0.07%.In the same way, profit margin (net income/sales) stayed constant at 6.67%.
UPS annual Sales and Income evolution
Year
Sales
YoY
Income/(margin)
YoY
2013
$55,490 M
-
$4,370 M7.9%
-
2014
$58,232 M
4.94%
$3,032 M5.2%
-30.62%
2015
$58,363 M
0.22%
$4,844 M8.3%
59.76%
2016
$60,906 M
4.36%
$3,431 M5.6%
-29.17%
2017
$66,585 M
9.32%
$4,905 M7.4%
42.96%
2018
$71,861 M
7.92%
$4,791 M6.7%
-2.32%
TTM
$71,908 M
0.07%
$4,557 M6.3%
-4.88%
Quarterly financial results
United Parcel Service reported $17,160.00 M in revenues for 2019-Q1, a -13.54% decline compared to previous quarter.Reported quarter earnings marked $1,111.00 M with a profit margin of 6.47%. Profit margin inched a 4.19% compared to previous quarter when profit margin was 2.28%.When comparing turnover to same quarter last year, United Parcel Service sales marked a neutral move and remained steady a 0.27%.
UPS quarterly Sales and Income evolution
Quarter
Sales1
QoQ2
Income1/(margin)
QoQ2
2017-Q2
$15,740 M
-
$1,380 M8.8%
-
2017-Q3
$15,980 M
1.52%
$1,260 M7.9%
-8.70%
2017-Q4
$18,262 M
14.28%
$1,101 M6.0%
-12.62%
2018-Q1
$17,113 M
-6.29%
$1,345 M7.9%
22.16%
2018-Q2
$17,456 M
2.00%
$1,485 M8.5%
10.41%
2018-Q3
$17,444 M
-0.07%
$1,508 M8.6%
1.55%
2018-Q4
$19,848 M
13.78%
$453 M2.3%
-69.96%
2019-Q1
$17,160 M
-13.54%
$1,111 M6.5%
145.25%
United Parcel Service ownership
When you are planning to invest in a stock, it's always worth to review its ownership structure.
Management staff in all public traded companies that hold equity is required to report every transaction to the SEC. For United Parcel Service, 0.01% of all outstanding shares are owned by its staff.
In case of United Parcel Service stock, 69.88% of its shares are held by institutions (mutual funds, pension funds, big banks and other large financial institutions). Bearish positions for UPS stock account 0.00%, no big difference from last month.
The following table compares ownership indicators for other stocks related to United Parcel Service:
UPS
AIRT
ATSG
CHRW
EXPD
Market cap
$84.5 B
$60.4 M
$1.4 B
$10.2 B
$12.9 B
Total shares
700.8 M
3.0 M
59.4 M
135.3 M
170.3 M
Float shares
700.4 M
1.2 M
57.1 M
134.7 M
169.2 M
- Institutional holdings (%)
69.9%
29.5%
92.0%
89.3%
98.3%
- Insider holdings (%)
0.0%
42.0%
2.6%
0.5%
0.6%
Shares in short selling
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
UPS summary
Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
Open
$123.46
Close
$120.53
Day range
$120.23 - $123.54
Previous close
$122.77
Session gain
-1.82%
Average true range
$2.10
50d mov avg
$118.12
100d mov avg
$114.63
200d mov avg
$109.12
Daily pattern
Weekly pattern
United Parcel Service performance
Stocks performance is always measured in comparision to the market or competitors and related stocks in the same industry. In the following table, we compare United Parcel Service to Air T, Air Transport Services, C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Expeditors International of Washington and FedEx:
Stock
3m
6m
12m
UPSUnited Parcel Ser...
9.16%
27.80%
14.78%
AIRTAir T
6.12%
5.44%
-29.58%
ATSGAir Transport Ser...
20.51%
9.10%
29.50%
CHRWC.H. Robinson Wor...
-7.99%
-4.51%
-13.70%
EXPDExpeditors Intern...
10.51%
6.07%
4.45%
FDXFedEx
4.08%
-0.71%
-28.44%
United Parcel Service competitors
One check before trading any stock is to review a list of its competitors, in this case for United Parcel Service. We selected 5 companies as United Parcel Service competitors as they are in the same industry or have similar market objectives.