United Parcel Service, Inc (NYSE: UPS): Think Like A Lender, Not An Investor

United Parcel Service, Inc (NYSE:UPS) currently has a daily average trading volume of 6.30M but it saw 5298558 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 81.17B USD, the company’s current market price of $95.85 came falling about -1.74 while comparing to the previous closing price of $97.55. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $148.15 and as low as $90.55.

The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the HSBC Securities which downgraded the stock as “Hold” in its note to investors issued on May 01, 2025, recommending a price target of $105 for it. Wells Fargo downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Equal Weight” from “Overweight” on April 22, 2025 while assigning a price target of $98. Truist issued its recommendations for the stock as it initiated the price target for the stock is $140.

Over the week, UPS’s stock price is moving -3.81% down while it is -1.02% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -23.99% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -35.77%.

Currently, United Parcel Service, Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 846.80M with 0.03% of that held by the insiders while 70.37% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 15.14% and return on equity (ROE) at 35.96%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 13.98 while having a 12.04 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.20. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 5.18 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.89. Its return on asset (ROA) is 8.61% on average.