Union Pacific Corporation Earnings Rise as Cost Cuts Offset Lower Freight Shipments
- by Emilio Sims
- in Money
- — Jan 22, 2017
Based on several research reports, Company shares were Reiterated by Cowen on Jan 20, 2017 to "Market Perform", Firm has raised the Price Target to $ 109 from a previous price target of $98.Union Pacific Corporation was Initiated by Buckingham Research to "Neutral" on Jan 18, 2017.
While looking at the Stock's Performance, Union Pacific Corporation now shows a Weekly Performance of 1.89%, where Monthly Performance is 2.84%, Quarterly performance is 10.5%, 6 Months performance is 14.21% and yearly performance percentage is 48.02%. Looking ahead, analysts on average predict that earnings for the current quarter would come in in the range of $1.12 to $1.40. For the next 5 years, Union Pacific Corporation is expecting Growth of 6.76% per annum, whereas in the past 5 years the growth was 7.62% per annum. The 52-week high of the share price is $106.62 and the 52-week low is $67.06.
Insider Trades for Union Pacific Corporation show that the latest trade was made on 2 Jan 2017 where Hopkins (Deborah C), the Director completed a transaction type "Buy" in which 4000 shares were traded at a price of $0.
At the movement stock is under coverage by number of analysts. Nine analysts rating the company a strong buy, ten analysts rating the company a buy, eight analysts rating the company a hold, zero analysts rating the company a underperform, and finally two analysts rating the company a sell with a 12-month price target of $91.36. The Stock now has a Weekly Volatility of 2.15% and Monthly Volatility of 1.80%.
On Thursday, Shares of Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE:UNP) gained 2.38% to $106.24.
China Telecom Corporation Limited (NYSE:CHA) announce that the Company was accredited with "Platinum Award - Excellence in Governance, CSR & Investor Relations Benchmarking" in the poll of "Corporate Awards 2016" by The Asset. Year-to-Date the stock performance stands at 0.09%. CHA Gross Margin is 73.30%. Lenox Wealth Advisors Inc. now owns 1,167 shares of the railroad operator's stock worth $114,000 after buying an additional 55 shares during the last quarter. The highest analyst price target is $126.00, which implies a rally of 79 percent. Stock monthly performance is recorded as 5.52% while its performance in last 5 sessions is 3.05%. 3 Analysts have rated it as strong sell. Analyst had a consensus of $1.33.
For the current week, the company shares have a recommendation consensus of Buy. The shares were sold at an average price of $104.94, for a total transaction of $2,434,398.12. In the past 5 years, the stock showed growth of 7.62% per annum.
Number of analysts are covering this stock and now stock has got OUTPERFORM rating from 1 analyst of Thomson Reuters, 1 analyst given HOLD rating to the stock and 0 given UNDERPERFORM rating to Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE:YGE) stock. Union Pacific Corp. now has an average rating of "Hold" and a consensus target price of $97.15.