Ulta Beauty Inc (ULTA) saw an uptrend of 834144% in the recent trading with $889960.0 being its most recent. The current price level -6.98% lower than the highest price of $491.98 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 48.11% higher than the lowest price of $309.01 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on ULTA appeared in (StockStory) under the title “2 Profitable Stocks for Long-Term Investors and 1 to Be Wary Of” on Today.
Do analysts rate it as a buy, sell or hold?
Irrespective of recent performance, what’s important is what the future holds. In uncertain economic times, a clear picture is difficult to get. Analysts generally have a good understanding of the market works, which gives them a leg up in making predictions. Currently, the stock has been recommended as Moderate Buy by 17 of the brokerage firms. Analyst ratings are often compiled into a single score from 1 to 5. The score of 1 signifies buy or strong buy, the score of 2 signifies outperform, the score of 3 means hold, and the score of 4 indicates underperform. The simple numeric range of brokerage firm referenced at the scale of 1 to 5 reads a current average recommendation of 2.30 for the stock.
Ulta Beauty Inc Earnings – What Happened With ULTA
Coming around sales and income figures on ULTA Stock Income Statement, public trading companies under normal circumstances post earnings and revenues near to average estimates by the Wall Street analysts, but those could came either above or below estimates and known as surprise factor.
Ulta Beauty Inc – Insider Activity and Holdings
Investors get the exact data about the key information of institutional ownership in a listed company through its 13F filings at the Stock Exchange Commission (SEC). The total number of common shares currently owned by the public is 45.04 million. ULTA does have institutional investors; and they hold 97.05% of the stock.
As on 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC was the top most holder in Ulta Beauty Inc (NASDAQ:ULTA) with an ownership of 5.57 million shares of the company or 11.7149 of the stake worth $2.15 billion. The filing also reveals BLACKROCK INC. as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 9.3636 of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $1.72 billion for having 4.45 million shares in hand.
STATE STREET CORP also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 4.9412 of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 1358.0 institutions which have possession in ULTA’s shares.
Key Metrics forULTA
The liquidity is a key characteristic of any stock and is the main point of focus of both short-term as well as long term investors before start trading into a stock. In recently reported quarter, Ulta Beauty Inc has a debt to equity ratio of 0.81.
Technical Analysis of Ulta Beauty Inc (NASDAQ:ULTA) stock
To comprehend better with the trade moves and investors’ behavior, exploring the short, medium and long term technical indicators along with average volume of a stock is an effective way to make use of. When looking into those indicators for Ulta Beauty Inc (ULTA), we notice that the stock’s 20-day average volume is at 1,006,595 shares and 50% of short term indicators are suggesting the stock as Buy. Medium term indicators at an average of 100% are spotting the stock at Buy with its 50-day average volume of 813,282 shares. And to end, ULTA’s 100-day average volume is 993,513 shares with 50% of the long-term indicators pointing towards Buy for the stock.
