United Natural Foods Inc (NYSE:UNFI) price on Thursday, July 03, rose 0.95% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $23.26.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $23.04, moving within a range at $22.93 and $23.39. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.91. Turning to its 52-week performance, $34.76 and $11.88 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, UNFI moved -19.24% over the past month.
United Natural Foods Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $1.41 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Jun-10.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that UNFI is a 50% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Sell category.
6 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 5 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 1 recommend UNFI 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 Hold which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
UNFI’s current price about 1.43% and -11.24% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 44.89, while 7-day volatility ratio is 3.90% and 5.01% in the 30-day chart. Further, United Natural Foods Inc (UNFI) has a beta value of 0.81. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $28.5, forecast between a low of $24 and high of $33. Looking at the price targets, the low is -3.18% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -41.87%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -22.53% jump to $28.5 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on United Natural Foods Inc (NYSE:UNFI), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 1.41 over the past 10 days and 981.78K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 60.60 million shares.
The 2.59% of United Natural Foods Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 90.14% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 4.98 million on 2025-06-13, giving us a short ratio of 4.55. The data shows that as of 2025-06-13 short interest in United Natural Foods Inc (UNFI) stood at 1189.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 4.38 million registered in 2025-05-15. Current price change has pushed the stock 81.86% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the UNFI stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
