Universal Stock Market Value

UVV Stock  USD 55.35  0.65  1.19%   
Universal's market value is the price at which a share of Universal trades on a public exchange. It measures the collective expectations of Universal investors about its performance. Universal is selling for under 55.35 as of the 14th of March 2025; that is 1.19% increase since the beginning of the trading day. The stock's lowest day price was 54.52.
With this module, you can estimate the performance of a buy and hold strategy of Universal and determine expected loss or profit from investing in Universal over a given investment horizon. Check out Universal Correlation, Universal Volatility and Universal Alpha and Beta module to complement your research on Universal.
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Universal Price To Book Ratio

Is Tobacco space expected to grow? Or is there an opportunity to expand the business' product line in the future? Factors like these will boost the valuation of Universal. If investors know Universal will grow in the future, the company's valuation will be higher. The financial industry is built on trying to define current growth potential and future valuation accurately. All the valuation information about Universal listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.
Quarterly Earnings Growth
(0.25)
Dividend Share
3.21
Earnings Share
4.87
Revenue Per Share
113.751
Quarterly Revenue Growth
0.153
The market value of Universal is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Universal that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Universal's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Universal's true underlying value. Investors use various methods to calculate intrinsic value and buy a stock when its market value falls below its intrinsic value. Because Universal's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Universal's underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.
Please note, there is a significant difference between Universal's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Universal is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Universal's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.

Universal 'What if' Analysis

In the world of financial modeling, what-if analysis is part of sensitivity analysis performed to test how changes in assumptions impact individual outputs in a model. When applied to Universal's stock what-if analysis refers to the analyzing how the change in your past investing horizon will affect the profitability against the current market value of Universal.
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If you would invest  0.00  in Universal on December 14, 2024 and sell it all today you would earn a total of 0.00 from holding Universal or generate 0.0% return on investment in Universal over 90 days. Universal is related to or competes with Imperial Brands, Japan Tobacco, Philip Morris, Turning Point, British Amer, Imperial Brands, and Altria. Universal Corporation processes and supplies leaf tobacco and plant-based ingredients worldwide More

Universal Upside/Downside Indicators

Understanding different market momentum indicators often help investors to time their next move. Potential upside and downside technical ratios enable traders to measure Universal's stock current market value against overall market sentiment and can be a good tool during both bulling and bearish trends. Here we outline some of the essential indicators to assess Universal upside and downside potential and time the market with a certain degree of confidence.

Universal Market Risk Indicators

Today, many novice investors tend to focus exclusively on investment returns with little concern for Universal's investment risk. Other traders do consider volatility but use just one or two very conventional indicators such as Universal's standard deviation. In reality, there are many statistical measures that can use Universal historical prices to predict the future Universal's volatility.
Sophisticated investors, who have witnessed many market ups and downs, anticipate that the market will even out over time. This tendency of Universal's price to converge to an average value over time is called mean reversion. However, historically, high market prices usually discourage investors that believe in mean reversion to invest, while low prices are viewed as an opportunity to buy.
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53.2754.7056.13
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52.3853.8155.24
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53.6959.0065.49
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Universal Backtested Returns

Universal owns Efficiency Ratio (i.e., Sharpe Ratio) of -0.0281, which indicates the firm had a -0.0281 % return per unit of risk over the last 3 months. Universal exposes twenty-two different technical indicators, which can help you to evaluate volatility embedded in its price movement. Please validate Universal's Coefficient Of Variation of (5,517), variance of 1.87, and Risk Adjusted Performance of (0.01) to confirm the risk estimate we provide. The entity has a beta of 0.39, which indicates possible diversification benefits within a given portfolio. As returns on the market increase, Universal's returns are expected to increase less than the market. However, during the bear market, the loss of holding Universal is expected to be smaller as well. At this point, Universal has a negative expected return of -0.0398%. Please make sure to validate Universal's skewness, and the relationship between the treynor ratio and daily balance of power , to decide if Universal performance from the past will be repeated at some point in the near future.

Auto-correlation

    
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Virtually no predictability

Universal has virtually no predictability. Overlapping area represents the amount of predictability between Universal time series from 14th of December 2024 to 28th of January 2025 and 28th of January 2025 to 14th of March 2025. The more autocorrelation exist between current time interval and its lagged values, the more accurately you can make projection about the future pattern of Universal price movement. The serial correlation of 0.09 indicates that less than 9.0% of current Universal price fluctuation can be explain by its past prices.
Correlation Coefficient0.09
Spearman Rank Test-0.05
Residual Average0.0
Price Variance0.3

Universal lagged returns against current returns

Autocorrelation, which is Universal stock's lagged correlation, explains the relationship between observations of its time series of returns over different periods of time. The observations are said to be independent if autocorrelation is zero. Autocorrelation is calculated as a function of mean and variance and can have practical application in predicting Universal's stock expected returns. We can calculate the autocorrelation of Universal returns to help us make a trade decision. For example, suppose you find that Universal has exhibited high autocorrelation historically, and you observe that the stock is moving up for the past few days. In that case, you can expect the price movement to match the lagging time series.
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Universal regressed lagged prices vs. current prices

Serial correlation can be approximated by using the Durbin-Watson (DW) test. The correlation can be either positive or negative. If Universal stock is displaying a positive serial correlation, investors will expect a positive pattern to continue. However, if Universal stock is observed to have a negative serial correlation, investors will generally project negative sentiment on having a locked-in long position in Universal stock over time.
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Universal Lagged Returns

When evaluating Universal's market value, investors can use the concept of autocorrelation to see how much of an impact past prices of Universal stock have on its future price. Universal autocorrelation represents the degree of similarity between a given time horizon and a lagged version of the same horizon over the previous time interval. In other words, Universal autocorrelation shows the relationship between Universal stock current value and its past values and can show if there is a momentum factor associated with investing in Universal.
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When running Universal's price analysis, check to measure Universal's market volatility, profitability, liquidity, solvency, efficiency, growth potential, financial leverage, and other vital indicators. We have many different tools that can be utilized to determine how healthy Universal is operating at the current time. Most of Universal's value examination focuses on studying past and present price action to predict the probability of Universal's future price movements. You can analyze the entity against its peers and the financial market as a whole to determine factors that move Universal's price. Additionally, you may evaluate how the addition of Universal to your portfolios can decrease your overall portfolio volatility.