Universal Logistics is a trucking business based in the US. Universal Logistics shares (ULH) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $42.52 – a decrease of 4.3% over the previous week. Universal Logistics employs 9,311 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $1.8 billion.
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| Latest market close | $42.52 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $20.60 - $50.27 |
| 50-day moving average | $41.77 |
| 200-day moving average | $38.45 |
| Wall St. target price | $46.00 |
| PE ratio | 9.1608 |
| Dividend yield | $0.42 (0.95%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $4.85 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $43.71 from 2024-10-18
| 1 week (2024-10-15) | -1.62% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2024-09-20) | -1.35% |
| 3 months (2024-07-22) | -1.58% |
| 6 months (2024-04-22) | 30.48% |
| 1 year (2023-10-20) | 83.50% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2022-10-21) | 26.33% |
| 3 years (2021-10-22) | 99.95% |
| 5 years (2019-10-22) | 79.33% |
Valuing Universal Logistics stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Universal Logistics's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Universal Logistics's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 9x. In other words, Universal Logistics shares trade at around 9x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Universal Logistics's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 6.88. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Universal Logistics's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Universal Logistics's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $292.1 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Universal Logistics's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $1.8 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 13.11% |
| Gross profit TTM | $426.7 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 9.54% |
| Return on equity TTM | 23.25% |
| Profit margin | 7.23% |
| Book value | $23.14 |
| Market Capitalization | $1.2 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 8.66% of net profits
Recently Universal Logistics has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Universal Logistics shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Universal Logistics's case, that would currently equate to about $0.42 per share.
While Universal Logistics's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that Universal Logistics is investing more in its future growth.
Universal Logistics's most recent dividend payout was on 30 September 2024. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 29 August 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").
Over the last 12 months, Universal Logistics's shares have ranged in value from as little as $20.5956 up to $50.2725. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Universal Logistics's is 0.831. This would suggest that Universal Logistics's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Universal Logistics Holdings, Inc. provides transportation and logistics solutions in the United States, Mexico, Canada, and Colombia. The company offers truckload services, which include dry van, flatbed, heavy-haul, and refrigerated operations; domestic and international freight forwarding, and customs brokerage services. It transports various commodities comprising automotive parts, machinery, building materials, paper, food, consumer goods, furniture, steel, and other metals. The company also provides value-added services for individual customer requirements, including material handling, consolidation, sequencing, sub-assembly, cross-dock, kitting, repacking, warehousing, and returnable container management; and intermodal support services comprising short-to-medium distance delivery of steamship and rail truck containers between the port or railhead, and the customer, as well as drayage services. It serves automotive, steel, and other metals, retail and consumer goods, energy, and manufacturing industries, as well as other transportation companies who aggregate loads from various shippers. The company was formerly known as Universal Truckload Services, Inc.
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