How to Buy United Parcel Service Stock
United Parcel Service Inc
United Parcel Service is a logistic company located in Georgia, United States, which is part of the Industrials sector, and is traded under the ticker UPS on the NYSE exchange.
United Parcel Service stock last closed at $116.76, up 1.33% from the previous day, and has decreased 24.13% in one year. It has underperformed other stocks in the Integrated Freight & Logistics industry by 0.11 percentage points. United Parcel Service stock is currently +6.73% from its 52-week low of $109.40, and -26.54% from its 52-week high of $158.95.
There are currently 854.17M shares of UPS outstanding. The market value of UPS is $99.73B. In the last 24 hours, 3.98M UPS shares were traded.
How to Buy United Parcel Service Stock
Not sure how to invest in United Parcel Service stock? Here's how.
- Decide where to buy United Parcel Service stock: You need to decide on an online brokerage, but don't worry - we've tested dozens of stock brokerages and apps to help you figure out where to buy United Parcel Service stock.
- Sign up for a brokerage account: Sign up for 0% fee trading with the highest-rated brokerage we've found.
- Fund your investment account: Choose your payment method and add your info.
- Research United Parcel Service stock: The United Parcel Service ticker symbol is UPS. Is United Parcel Service stock a good investment? Should you buy shares of UPS? How do UPS's underlying business fundamentals look? Do top analysts think United Parcel Service is a good buy? Why has UPS's stock price moved recently? (Hint: Our stock market research website can help you decide if UPS is a good stock to buy).
- Place your UPS trade: Decide if you will purchase UPS shares at the current market price or use a limit order to buy UPS stock at a given price.
- Keep tabs on your UPS position: Create a watchlist to watch your new investment in United Parcel Service stock.
Step 1: Decide where to buy United Parcel Service stock
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Step 4: Research United Parcel Service stock
After you have identified the best place to buy United Parcel Service stock, it's important to analyze their stock before you invest, so you actually understand the risk as well as the opportunity.
United Parcel Service stock data
UPS Due Diligence Score
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You can see all of the due diligence checks on UPS's stock page.
Is UPS stock properly valued?
You can use a variety of different financial metrics, analyses, models, and charts to gauge UPS's fair value.
Using relative valuations metrics:
- UPS could be undervalued based on its P/E ratio of 17.27x, relative to Integrated Freight & Logistics industry P/E ratio of 17.98x
- UPS may be overvalued based on its P/B ratio of 5.97x, relative to Integrated Freight & Logistics industry P/B ratio of 3.52x
- UPS may be overvalued based on its PEG ratio of 1.68x
You can do more valuation research on UPS's stock here.
A look at UPS Cashflows and Balance Sheet
Passed Health Checks:
- There are more short-term assets than short-term liabilities on the UPS balance sheet.
- Total UPS debt is lower than 5 years ago, relative to shareholder equity.
- UPS's operating cash flow of $10.12B allows it to safely service it's debt of $25.65B.
- UPS earnings of $8.31B is not sufficient to cover its interest payments.
Failed Health Checks:
- UPS has a relatively high debt to equity ratio of 3.19.
- UPS profit margin has gone down from 7.4% to 6.3% in the past year.
- There are more long-term liabilities than short-term assets on the UPS balance sheet.
Is UPS stock a Buy, Hold, or Sell, according to analysts?
Out of 17 Wall Street analysts who track UPS, the consensus analyst rating on United Parcel Service is a Buy
It's important to keep in mind that analyst ratings are not recommendations, nor are they financial advice.
Latest UPS Analyst Forecasts
Matt Reustle, a top 36% analyst from Goldman Sachs maintains UPS with a strong buy rating and lowers their UPS price target from $166.00 to $147.00, on Jan 31, 2025.
Patrick Brown, a top 1% analyst from Raymond James maintains UPS with a strong buy rating and lowers their UPS price target from $155.00 to $145.00, on Jan 31, 2025.
Christian Wetherbee, a top 5% analyst from Wells Fargo maintains UPS with a strong buy rating and lowers their UPS price target from $150.00 to $128.00, on Jan 31, 2025.
Bascome Majors, a top 24% analyst from Susquehanna maintains UPS with a hold rating and lowers their UPS price target from $140.00 to $130.00, on Jan 31, 2025.
Ravi Shanker, a bottom 2% analyst from Morgan Stanley maintains UPS with a strong sell rating and lowers their UPS price target from $100.00 to $82.00, on Jan 31, 2025.
Morgan Stanley's Ravi Shanker lowered their price target on United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS) by 18% from $100 to $82 on 2025/01/31. The analyst maintained their Strong Sell rating on the stock.
United Parcel Service (UPS) reported its Q4 and FY 2024 earnings.
Shanker noted that the quarter's beat was overshadowed by management's "soft" FY 2025 guidance but even more by UPS's announcement that Amazon would be drawing down 50%+ of its volumes.
The analyst said the Amazon drawdown was "not a surprise because we believed the contract would be up for renewal in 2025," detailing that it will take place over 18 months.
Management "sounded confident on the call," Shanker told readers.
However, rather than the announcement potentially "lifting an overhang" on UPS stock, the "biggest part of the overhang may be yet to come," the analyst cautioned.
Earnings Report
UPS reported:
For Q4:
- EPS of $2.75, which beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2.52 and Q4 2023's $2.47.
- Revenue of $25.3B, up from Q4 2023's $24.9B.
For FY 2024:
- EPS of $7.72, down from FY 2023's $8.78.
- Revenue of $91.1B, up from FY 2023's $90.96B.
For FY 2025, management guided:
- Revenue of $89B, below the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $94.6B.
CEO Carol Tomé commented: “I want to thank all UPSers for their hard work and efforts as we closed out 2024 with an outstanding peak, delivering best-in-class service and strong financial results ahead of our targets for the quarter."
You can dig deeper into what analysts are saying on the United Parcel Service stock forecast page.
UPS Technical Indicators
How are UPS Revenues/Earnings doing?
Last year, UPS earnings were $5.78B. During the last 5 year, UPS's earnings have grown by 5.63% per year. This was slower than the Integrated Freight & Logistics industry average of 33.06%.
Last year, UPS revenue was $91.07B. Over the last 5 year, UPS's revenue has gone up by 4.21% per year. This was slower than the Integrated Freight & Logistics industry average of 5.54%.
Learn more about UPS's earnings and revenue performance here.
Who is buying/selling UPS?
Over the last 12 months, insiders at UPS have sold more shares than they have bought.
Carol B. Tome, Chief Executive Officer of UPS, was the latest UPS insider to sell. They sold $1,258,982.40 worth of UPS stock on Feb 14, 2025.
Get more info about who owns UPS stock here.
Does UPS provide a stable income stream?
United Parcel Service pays a dividend of 4.19%, compared to the Integrated Freight & Logistics industry's average dividend yield of 2.11%. If you owned $1,000 of UPS stock, you would have been paid $41.88 in the past year.
United Parcel Service dividend payments have consistently grown over the past decade and have remained stable.
Get more data about United Parcel Service dividend yield and history here.
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Step 5: Place your UPS trade
You have two main types of orders:
- Market order: A market order is an order to buy or sell a stock at the best price on the market.
Market orders are mostly sufficient. - Limit order: A limit order lets you buy or sell a stock at a specific price (or better).
If you want to be certain you're buying or selling at an exact price, place a limit order.
Press the Open Trade button and your broker will execute the order.
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Step 6: Keep tabs on your UPS position
Now that you own some shares in UPS, you'll want to stay up-to-date on your new shares.
Add UPS to a watchlist to track your UPS stock.
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How to Buy Stock in United Parcel Service
To summarize, here are the 6 steps you need to take to buy United Parcel Service stock right now:
- Decide where to buy United Parcel Service stock
- Sign up for a brokerage account
- Fund your investment account
- Research United Parcel Service stock
- Place your UPS trade
- Keep tabs on your UPS position
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