UVV — Universal Corporation

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About Universal Corporation

Universal Corporation, a business-to-business agriproducts company, provides leaf tobacco and plant-based ingredients to food and beverage end markets worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Tobacco Operations and Ingredients Operations. The Tobacco Operations segment is involved in procuring, processing, packing, storing, and shipping of flue-cured, burley, dark air-cured, and oriental leaf tobacco for consumer product manufacturers, as… Read full Trend Edge analysis →

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Key Metrics

Current Price$54.56
Market Cap$1.36B
Float24.6M
Shares Outstanding24.9M
P/E (Forward)12.42
P/E (TTM)16.12
Price/Sales (TTM)0.47
vs. Analyst Target+43.0% to analyst PT
Profit Margin2.93%
Operating Margin (TTM)9.60%
Revenue (TTM)$2.91B
Earnings Growth (YoY)-44.30%
Dividend Rate3.3%
Analyst Target Price$78.00

Financial History

Annual Revenue & Earnings History

YearRevenueNet IncomeGross ProfitEBITDA
2020 $1.91B $71.7M $357M $172M
2021 $1.98B $87.4M $386M $195M
2022 $2.10B $86.6M $409M $223M
2023 $2.57B $124M $458M $249M
2024 $2.75B $120M $536M $289M
2025 $2.95B $95.0M $549M $301M

Recent Quarterly Revenue & Net Income

QuarterRevenueNet Income
Mar 2025 $702M $9.3M
Jun 2025 $594M $8.5M
Sep 2025 $754M $34.2M
Dec 2025 $861M $33.2M

Ownership & Float

Insider Ownership1.8%
Institutional Ownership84.3%
Short Float6.2%
% of All Funds Holding2.58%
Number of Funds Holding212

Current Moving Averages

Trend Edge tracks near-term, medium-term, cyclical, and secular moving averages across weekly and monthly timeframes to identify trend structure at every horizon.

TimeframeSMAValueTrend Context
Weekly10-Week SMA$53.54Near-term / short-term trend
Weekly40-Week SMA$53.83Medium-term trend
Weekly80-Week SMA$54.72Cyclical trend (business cycle)
Weekly200-Week SMA$52.99Secular trend (multi-year)
Monthly10-Month SMA$53.92Near-term monthly trend
Monthly20-Month SMA$55.06Medium-term monthly trend
Monthly40-Month SMA$53.53Secular monthly trend

Volume Shelves — Support & Resistance

Trend Edge identifies volume shelves: price zones where historically elevated trading volume creates structural support or resistance. A volume shelf forms when a disproportionate share of cumulative volume was transacted at a specific price level, making it a high-conviction anchor for future price reactions.

Price LevelTypeVolume RatioAge
$58.00 resistance 1.70x 9 months ago
$64.00 resistance 1.67x 10 months ago

Historical Earnings Reactions (132 events)

TimeframeAvg ReturnMedianWin RateBestWorst
Gap 0.13% 0.00% 43.94% 5.14% -5.76%
1 Day 0.13% 0.02% 50.00% 29.72% -15.73%
1 Week 0.88% 0.52% 51.52% 35.81% -19.73%
2 Weeks 1.03% 1.35% 56.06% 32.61% -21.86%
1 Month 1.70% 0.96% 53.79% 37.36% -26.01%

Next earnings: June 4, 2026 (8 days away)

Seasonality & Day-of-Week Patterns

Monthly Seasonality

MonthAvg ReturnWin RateSamples
Jan-0.6%37.3%51
Feb1.8%62.7%51
Mar0.7%52.9%51
Apr1.4%49.0%51
May1.3%48.0%50
Jun-0.2%46.0%50
Jul1.0%52.0%50
Aug-0.4%54.0%50
Sep0.0%44.0%50
Oct-1.0%42.0%50
Nov4.1%66.0%50
Dec2.1%51.0%51

Day-of-Week Tendencies

DayAvg ReturnWin RateSamples
Monday 0.03% 46.6% 2384
Tuesday 0.05% 47.0% 2586
Wednesday 0.10% 47.2% 2587
Thursday 0.03% 45.9% 2537
Friday -0.02% 44.7% 2524

Top Institutional Holders

Institutional holder breakdown coming soon.

Total institutional ownership: 84.3%

Insider Transactions — Smart Summary

Total insider ownership: 1.8%

12-Month Insider Activity Summary

Total Filings5
Net Value-$549,414
Net Shares Change-22,163
% of Float-0.1%
C-Suite Filings1
Clusters Detected0

Key Insiders

NameTitleNet ValueFilingsActivity
Hentschke Airton L Senior VP and COO -$549,414 1 1 sell
Freeman Lennart R. -$348,333.824 2 2 sell
SLEDD ROBERT C -$299,802.45 2 2 sell

Significant Filings

DateInsiderTitleNet ValuePrice After
2026-02-27 SLEDD ROBERT C -$53,947.2 Transaction at $53.95, now +1.1%
2026-02-23 Freeman Lennart R. -$200,228.944 Transaction at $53.45, now +2.1%
2025-08-28 Hentschke Airton L Senior VP and COO -$549,414 Transaction at $54.94, now -0.7%
2025-08-18 SLEDD ROBERT C -$245,855.25 Transaction at $53.25, now +2.5%
2025-08-12 Freeman Lennart R. -$148,104.88 Transaction at $52.89, now +3.1%

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AI Consult Analysis

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