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United Parcel Service is an integrated freight & logistics business based in the US. United Parcel Service shares (UPS.US) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US dollars. Its last market close was $131.41 – an increase of 0.06% over the previous day. United Parcel Service employs 500,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $89.5 billion.
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Technical analysis
View United Parcel Service's price performance, share price volatility, historical data and technicals.
Historical closes compared with the last close of $131.41
1 week (2024-11-09) | -2.95% |
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1 month (2024-10-16) | 1.46% |
3 months (2024-08-16) | 3.30% |
6 months (2024-05-16) | -8.83% |
1 year (2023-11-16) | -6.30% |
2 years (2022-11-16) | -14.49% |
3 years (2021-11-16) | -27.96% |
5 years (2019-11-16) | 34.37% |
The gauge below shows real-time ratings that are based on 26 popular indicators such as moving averages, for specific time periods. It's not a recommendation but is simply technical analysis that can form part of your research.
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Is United Parcel Service under- or over-valued?
Valuing a stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge value. Check out the United Parcel Service P/E ratio, PEG ratio and EBITDA.
United Parcel Service's current stock price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 21x. In other words, United Parcel Service's stocks trade at around 21x recent earnings.
That's comparable to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the United States stock markets on average as of November 09, 2023 (20.44).
United Parcel Service's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.5783. A PEG ratio over 1 can be interpreted as meaning shares are overvalued at the current rate of growth, or may anticipate an acceleration in growth.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into United Parcel Service's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the stock prices of multiple high-growth companies.
United Parcel Service's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is a whopping $11.6 billion ($16.4 billion CAD).
The EBITDA is a measure of United Parcel Service's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
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