UBS Group AG (NYSE: UBS): Retirees Don’t Worry About Volatility

UBS Group AG (NYSE:UBS) currently has a daily average trading volume of 2.87M but it saw 3602227 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 93.44B USD, the company’s current market price of $29.12 came falling about -1.12 while comparing to the previous closing price of $29.45. 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 $30.97, while its current price level is -9.37% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 55.64% 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 $29.69 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $26.43. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.66% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 1.37%. 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 35.96 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, UBS’s stock price is moving -6.22% down while it is -7.99% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -5.76% down and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 37.20%.

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 3,233.30% for current year and estimate for EPS growth in next year is 115.00%.

Currently, UBS Group AG’s total number of outstanding shares is 3.21B 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 5.51% and return on equity (ROE) at 38.79%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 3.37 while having a 13.81 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.15. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.09 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.31. Its return on asset (ROA) is 1.97% on average.