The Week Ahead: Are Investors Really Too Optimistic About Universal Corp (NYSE: UVV)

Universal Corp (NYSE:UVV) currently has a daily average trading volume of 156.27K but it saw 186068 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 1.28B USD, the company’s current market price of $51.66 came rising about 1.61 while comparing to the previous closing price of $50.84. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $59.13 and as low as $45.19. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $50.975 while lowest mark touched by it was $51.81.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Universal Corp (UVV) gives us an average price of $53.74, while its current price level is -12.63% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 14.32% 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 $53.82 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $52.90. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.01% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 2.87%. 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 38.99 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, UVV’s stock price is moving -1.66% down while it is -7.24% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -5.80% down and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 4.28%.

Currently, Universal Corp’s total number of outstanding shares is 24.69M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 6.11% and return on equity (ROE) at 8.72%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 10.37. Stock’s beta reads 0.74. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.90 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.42. Its return on asset (ROA) is 5.21% on average.