United Micro Electronics ADR (NYSE:UMC) price on Thursday, November 14, fall -0.58% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $6.88.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $6.92, moving within a range at $6.84 and $6.93. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.173 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 10.65. Turning to its 52-week performance, $9.00 and $6.78 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, UMC moved -13.78% over the past month.
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United Micro Electronics ADR’s market cap currently stands at around $17.24 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in December. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.46, with its dividend yield at 6.62%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 59.77B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 58.7B and 60.48B respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 8.75% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 231.63B, representing a 4.09% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that UMC is a 100% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Sell category.
2 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 1 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 1 recommend UMC as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
The technical evaluation for the stock shows the PEG ratio is 4.90, with UMC’s current price about -5.36% and -13.21% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 31.10, while 7-day volatility ratio is 1.81% and 2.16% in the 30-day chart. Further, United Micro Electronics ADR (UMC) has a beta value of 1.12, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.18. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $8.665, forecast between a low of $7.4 and high of $9.93. Looking at the price targets, the low is -7.56% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -44.33%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -25.94% jump to $8.665 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on United Micro Electronics ADR (NYSE:UMC), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 13.91 over the past 10 days and 12.60 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 2.51 billion shares.
The 0.00% of United Micro Electronics ADR’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 5.79% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 58.54 million on 2024-10-31, giving us a short ratio of 5.17. The data shows that as of 2024-10-31 short interest in United Micro Electronics ADR (UMC) stood at 251.00000000000003 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 48.11 million registered in 2024-09-30. Current price change has pushed the stock -18.68% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the UMC stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
