United Natural Foods Inc (NYSE:UNFI) shares, rose in value on Friday, March 28, with the stock price down by -1.00% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $26.70.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $26.97, falling within a range of $26.0 and $26.99. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 0.554. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $34.76, and the low was $8.58. On the whole, UNFI has fluctuated by -15.51% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of United Natural Foods Inc currently standing at about $1.62 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Mar-10.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 31.57B, with a low estimate of 7.72B and a high estimate of 7.87B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 7.78B.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that UNFI’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Buy while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the price of UNFI currently trading nearly -0.70% and -8.41% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 43.61, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 3.43% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 5.21%. Furthermore, United Natural Foods Inc (UNFI)’s beta value is 1.08, and its average true range (ATR) is 1.30.
A comparison of United Natural Foods Inc (UNFI) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. UNFI showed an intraday change of -1.00% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 134.21%%.
Data on historical trading for United Natural Foods Inc (NYSE:UNFI) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 0.75 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 691.85K. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 60.50 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 2.61% of United Natural Foods Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 90.26% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 3.87 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 4.58. According to the data, the short interest in United Natural Foods Inc (UNFI) stood at 926.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 3.99 million. The stock has fallen by -2.23% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the UNFI stock heading into the next quarter.
