UBS Group AG (NYSE: UBS) Recovers 66.38% From 52-Week Low, Is UBS Still A High-Risk, High-Reward Play?

UBS Group AG (NYSE:UBS) currently has a daily average trading volume of 2.97M but it saw 2160231 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 100.65B USD, the company’s current market price of $31.13 came rising about 2.07 while comparing to the previous closing price of $30.50. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $32.13 and as low as $18.71.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of UBS Group AG (UBS) gives us an average price of $31.04, while its current price level is -3.11% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 66.38% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $29.59 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $26.11. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.24% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 1.26%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 57.74 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, UBS’s stock price is moving -0.06% down while it is 8.47% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 0.74% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 47.77%.

The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company was for quarter ended 12/30/2023, when its quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of -$0.51 beaten by the consensus estimate of $0.2 for the same. For UBS, analysts are forecasting an EPS-growth rate of 3,200.00% for current year and estimate for EPS growth in next year is 117.20%.

Currently, UBS Group AG’s total number of outstanding shares is 3.23B with 0.04% of that held by the insiders while 61.36% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 6.12% and return on equity (ROE) at 43.77%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 3.47 while having a 14.80 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.14. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.19 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.64. Its return on asset (ROA) is 2.04% on average.