Jefferies Financial Group set a GBX 4,600 ($55.58) target price on Unilever (LON:ULVR – Get Rating) in a research note published on Tuesday morning, Borsen Zeitung reports.
Several other analysts have also recently issued reports on the company. Sanford C. Bernstein set a GBX 4,280 ($51.72) target price on Unilever in a research note on Monday. HSBC set a GBX 3,500 ($42.29) price objective on shares of Unilever in a report on Tuesday, June 7th. Royal Bank of Canada set a GBX 3,600 ($43.50) price objective on shares of Unilever in a report on Monday. Barclays restated an equal weight rating and issued a GBX 4,300 ($51.96) price objective on shares of Unilever in a report on Thursday, September 22nd. Finally, Berenberg Bank upgraded shares of Unilever to a buy rating and raised their price objective for the stock from GBX 4,000 ($48.33) to GBX 4,800 ($58.00) in a report on Monday. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have assigned a hold rating and three have issued a buy rating to the company's stock. According to MarketBeat.com, Unilever currently has an average rating of Hold and a consensus target price of GBX 4,129.23 ($49.89).
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Shares of LON:ULVR opened at GBX 4,078.50 ($49.28) on Tuesday. The stock's 50-day moving average price is GBX 3,965.84 and its 200-day moving average price is GBX 3,733.85. Unilever has a 12-month low of GBX 3,267.50 ($39.48) and a 12-month high of GBX 4,178 ($50.48). The stock has a market capitalization of £103.81 billion and a P/E ratio of 2,059.85. The company has a current ratio of 0.80, a quick ratio of 0.49 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 148.52.
Unilever Increases Dividend
The business also recently announced a dividend, which was paid on Thursday, September 1st. Shareholders of record on Thursday, August 4th were given a GBX 36.33 ($0.44) dividend. This represents a yield of 0.93%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, August 4th. This is an increase from Unilever's previous dividend of $35.90. Unilever's payout ratio is 86.44%.About Unilever
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Unilever PLC operates as a fast-moving consumer goods company. It operates through Beauty & Personal Care, Foods & Refreshment, and Home Care segments. The Beauty & Personal Care segment provides skin care and hair care products, deodorants, and skin cleansing products. The Foods & Refreshment segment offers ice cream, soups, bouillons, seasonings, mayonnaise, ketchups, and tea categories.
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