Shares of Ultrapar Participações S.A. (NYSE:UGP – Get Free Report) have been assigned a consensus rating of “Hold” from the five ratings firms that are presently covering the company, Marketbeat Ratings reports. Four analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and one has issued a buy recommendation on the company. The average 1 year price target among analysts that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is $5.20.
Several equities analysts have recently issued reports on UGP shares. The Goldman Sachs Group decreased their target price on Ultrapar Participações from $5.90 to $5.20 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research report on Tuesday, July 23rd. HSBC upgraded shares of Ultrapar Participações from a “reduce” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Friday, July 19th. Citigroup upgraded shares of Ultrapar Participações from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, June 14th. StockNews.com raised shares of Ultrapar Participações from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Sunday. Finally, Hsbc Global Res raised Ultrapar Participações from a “strong sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Friday, July 19th.
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Ultrapar Participações Price Performance
Shares of UGP stock opened at $3.93 on Wednesday. The firm’s 50 day moving average price is $4.12 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $4.54. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.77, a quick ratio of 1.16 and a current ratio of 1.55. Ultrapar Participações has a 52-week low of $3.39 and a 52-week high of $6.34. The stock has a market cap of $4.38 billion, a PE ratio of 8.18, a PEG ratio of 2.83 and a beta of 1.61.
Ultrapar Participações (NYSE:UGP – Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August 7th. The oil and gas company reported $0.08 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, hitting the consensus estimate of $0.08. The business had revenue of $6.21 billion for the quarter. Ultrapar Participações had a return on equity of 20.24% and a net margin of 2.21%. As a group, analysts forecast that Ultrapar Participações will post 0.34 EPS for the current year.
Ultrapar Participações Cuts Dividend
The business also recently declared a semi-annual dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, September 3rd. Shareholders of record on Monday, August 19th were paid a $0.0446 dividend. This represents a yield of 2.7%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Monday, August 19th. Ultrapar Participações’s payout ratio is currently 16.67%.
Ultrapar Participações Company Profile
Ultrapar Participações SA, through its subsidiaries, operates in the energy and infrastructure business in Brazil. The company distributes liquefied petroleum gas to residential, commercial, and industrial consumers, in addition to renewable electricity and compressed natural gas. It also operates in the distribution and marketing of gasoline, ethanol, diesel, fuel oil, kerosene, natural gas for vehicles, and lubricants; and holds AmPm convenience stores and provides JetOil lubricant services.
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