Union Pacific Corp. (UNP) EPS is poised to hit 2.52 next quarter: How Investors Can Make It Count the Most?

Union Pacific Corp. (NYSE: UNP) started the day on Thursday, with a price decrease of -0.29% at $236.16, before settling in for the price of $236.85 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, UNP posted a 52-week range of $190.37-$258.66.

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In the past 5-years timespan, the Industrials sector firm’s annual sales growth was 1.55%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 5.74%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 6.20%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $609.70 million, simultaneously with a float of $607.85 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $144.01 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $247.33, while the 200-day Moving Average is $227.81.

Union Pacific Corp. (UNP) Ownership Facts and Figures

Now let’s turn our focus to how large-scale investors are working with this stock of the Railroads Industry. Union Pacific Corp.’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.32%, in contrast to 82.36% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Feb 15 ’24, this organization’s PRESIDENT sold 3,750 shares at the rate of 250.00, making the entire transaction reach 937,500 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 56,682. Preceding that transaction, on Feb 14 ’24, Company’s PRESIDENT sold 3,750 for 246.36, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 923,850. This particular insider is now the holder of 56,682 in total.

Union Pacific Corp. (UNP) Earnings and Revenue Records

In the latest quarterly report released, which was put into the public domain on 12/30/2023, the organization reported $2.71 earnings per share (EPS) for the three months, surpassing the consensus estimate (set at $2.57) by $0.14. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 2.74 per share during the current fiscal year.

Union Pacific Corp.’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 6.20% and is forecasted to reach 12.59 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 9.86% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 5.74% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.

Union Pacific Corp. (NYSE: UNP) Trading Performance Indicators

Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Union Pacific Corp. (UNP). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 0.67. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 3.64. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $22.59, and its Beta score is 1.07. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 5.97. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 30.17.

In the same vein, UNP’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 10.45, a figure that is expected to reach 2.52 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 12.59 at the market close of one year from today.

Technical Analysis of Union Pacific Corp. (UNP)

If we take a close look at the recent performances of Union Pacific Corp. (NYSE: UNP), its last 5-days Average volume was 1.85 million that shows plunge from its year to date volume of 2.32 million. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 17.03% While, its Average True Range was 3.62.

Raw Stochastic average of Union Pacific Corp. (UNP) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 46.26%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 8.07% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 13.17% that was lower than 15.58% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.