The Week Ahead: Are Investors Really Too Optimistic About UBS Group AG (NYSE: UBS)

UBS Group AG (NYSE:UBS) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.66M but it saw 1700422 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 99.20B USD, the company’s current market price of $30.98 came rising about 0.55 while comparing to the previous closing price of $30.81. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $31.94 and as low as $22.93. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $30.69 while lowest mark touched by it was $31.045.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of UBS Group AG (UBS) gives us an average price of $29.92, while its current price level is -3.02% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 35.12% 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 $29.90 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $29.83. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.47% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 1.49%. 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 58.78 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, UBS’s stock price is moving 3.27% up while it is 4.42% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 1.58% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 28.86%.

Currently, UBS Group AG’s total number of outstanding shares is 3.21B. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 0.17% and return on equity (ROE) at 0.84%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 167.73 while having a 14.88 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.15. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.19 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.14. Its return on asset (ROA) is 0.04% on average.