UiPath (NYSE:PATH) Trading Down 3.2% Following Insider Selling
by Danessa Lincoln · The Markets DailyShares of UiPath, Inc. (NYSE:PATH – Get Free Report) traded down 3.2% on Friday after an insider sold shares in the company. The company traded as low as $15.49 and last traded at $15.8650. 44,011,479 shares changed hands during trading, an increase of 56% from the average session volume of 28,140,886 shares. The stock had previously closed at $16.39.
Specifically, CEO Daniel Dines sold 45,000 shares of UiPath stock in a transaction on Friday, January 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $16.38, for a total value of $737,100.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer owned 28,433,585 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $465,742,122.30. The trade was a 0.16% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Also, CEO Daniel Dines sold 45,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, December 31st. The stock was sold at an average price of $16.55, for a total value of $744,750.00. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer owned 28,478,585 shares in the company, valued at $471,320,581.75. This trade represents a 0.16% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. In other UiPath news, CEO Daniel Dines sold 45,000 shares of UiPath stock in a transaction dated Monday, December 29th. The stock was sold at an average price of $16.44, for a total value of $739,800.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer owned 28,523,585 shares in the company, valued at $468,927,737.40. The trade was a 0.16% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link.
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades
Several research analysts have recently weighed in on PATH shares. Royal Bank Of Canada increased their price objective on shares of UiPath from $16.00 to $19.00 and gave the stock a “sector perform” rating in a report on Wednesday, December 10th. Cowen reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of UiPath in a research report on Thursday, December 4th. DA Davidson lifted their price target on shares of UiPath from $12.00 to $15.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Thursday, December 4th. Wall Street Zen downgraded UiPath from a “strong-buy” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Saturday, December 6th. Finally, Truist Financial set a $17.00 target price on UiPath in a research report on Thursday, December 4th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, one has given a Buy rating, fourteen have issued a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, UiPath presently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $16.00.
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UiPath News Summary
Here are the key news stories impacting UiPath this week:
- Positive Sentiment: Inclusion in S&P 400 could force passive/index funds to buy shares, supporting demand and liquidity — retail reaction has been noted by the press. S&P 400 inclusion article
- Positive Sentiment: Zacks upgraded PATH from Hold to Strong Buy — an upgrade that can attract short-term buyers and momentum flows. Zacks upgrade
- Neutral Sentiment: Analyst coverage remains mixed: consensus is a “Hold” with a ~$16 price target near the current price, limiting clear upside from analyst views. MarketBeat analyst summary
- Neutral Sentiment: Industry commentary compares UiPath to other AI-enabled software names (e.g., Figma vs UiPath), highlighting competitive positioning but not changing fundamentals immediately. Fool comparison
- Negative Sentiment: CEO Daniel Dines sold 45,000 shares on Jan 2 (and has conducted a series of similar daily sales in December). Large, repeated insider selling can spook investors and is being widely reported. SEC filing available. SEC filing
- Negative Sentiment: News outlets flagged the insider sales as a reason for downward pressure and reported that shares traded down after the filings — reinforcing negative short-term sentiment. AmericanBankingNews article
UiPath Stock Performance
The company’s fifty day moving average is $15.60 and its two-hundred day moving average is $13.62. The firm has a market cap of $8.48 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 37.77, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.95 and a beta of 1.08.
UiPath (NYSE:PATH – Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, December 3rd. The company reported $0.16 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.14 by $0.02. The firm had revenue of $411.11 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $392.46 million. UiPath had a return on equity of 3.73% and a net margin of 14.79%.The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 15.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $0.11 EPS. As a group, analysts forecast that UiPath, Inc. will post -0.17 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
Institutional Investors Weigh In On UiPath
Several hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of PATH. Vanguard Group Inc. lifted its position in UiPath by 4.9% during the 3rd quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 47,895,884 shares of the company’s stock worth $640,847,000 after acquiring an additional 2,251,434 shares in the last quarter. TFG Asset Management GP Ltd lifted its position in shares of UiPath by 53.3% during the second quarter. TFG Asset Management GP Ltd now owns 13,722,244 shares of the company’s stock worth $175,645,000 after purchasing an additional 4,772,244 shares in the last quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC boosted its stake in shares of UiPath by 76.0% in the second quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC now owns 11,407,569 shares of the company’s stock valued at $145,732,000 after purchasing an additional 4,926,341 shares during the period. Federated Hermes Inc. grew its holdings in UiPath by 40.7% during the 2nd quarter. Federated Hermes Inc. now owns 8,048,321 shares of the company’s stock valued at $103,019,000 after purchasing an additional 2,328,225 shares in the last quarter. Finally, State Street Corp grew its holdings in UiPath by 5.0% during the 2nd quarter. State Street Corp now owns 8,032,345 shares of the company’s stock valued at $102,814,000 after purchasing an additional 378,851 shares in the last quarter. 62.50% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
About UiPath
UiPath Inc provides an end-to-end automation platform that offers a range of robotic process automation (RPA) solutions primarily in the United States, Romania, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and internationally. The company offers a suite of interrelated software to build, manage, run, engage, measure, and govern automation within the organization. Its platform's embedded AI, ML, and NLP capabilities improve decisioning and information processing; emulate human behavior allows organizations to address a myriad of use cases; emulate human behavior allows organizations to address a myriad of use cases; multi-tenant platform enterprise deployment with security and governance and Automation Cloud, which enables customers to begin automating without the need to provision infrastructure, install applications, or perform additional configurations; intuitive interface and low-code, drag-and-drop functionality; signed to enable people and automations to work together; and tracks, measures, and forecasts the performance of automations, enables customers to gain powerful insights and generate key performance indicators with actionable metric.