UiPath (NYSE:PATH) Trading 8.8% Higher – Time to Buy?

UiPath, Inc. (NYSE:PATH)’s stock price traded up 8.8% during mid-day trading on Monday . The stock traded as high as $12.65 and last traded at $12.7480. 8,758,151 shares changed hands during trading, a decline of 73% from the average session volume of 32,133,486 shares. The stock had previously closed at $11.72.

UiPath News Roundup

Here are the key news stories impacting UiPath this week:

• Positive Sentiment: UiPath’s fiscal Q1 results showed 17% revenue growth, first GAAP profitability, and improved outlook, which has been the main driver behind the stock’s recent strength. Article Title
• Positive Sentiment: Management reiterated higher fiscal 2027 revenue guidance, reinforcing confidence that AI-powered automation demand is supporting longer-term growth. Article Title
• Neutral Sentiment: UiPath presented at the William Blair Growth Stock Conference, giving investors another management update, but no major new catalyst appears to have emerged from the appearance. Article Title
• Neutral Sentiment: Investor interest remains elevated, with trading activity and “trending stock” coverage suggesting the name is still heavily watched after the earnings beat. Article Title
• Negative Sentiment: Analyst sentiment is still cautious: Morgan Stanley cut targets on UiPath, and BofA kept an Underperform rating even after nudging its price target higher, signaling concerns that much of the near-term upside may already be reflected. Article Title
• Negative Sentiment: Additional commentary questioned whether UiPath can sustain growth as AI-driven automation evolves, adding to the debate around the company’s longer-term competitive positioning. Article Title

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several analysts have issued reports on the stock. Royal Bank Of Canada set a $14.00 target price on shares of UiPath in a research note on Wednesday, February 11th. UBS Group cut their target price on shares of UiPath from $17.00 to $13.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, March 12th. DA Davidson cut their target price on shares of UiPath from $13.00 to $12.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday. Morgan Stanley cut their target price on shares of UiPath from $17.00 to $15.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, May 29th. Finally, Weiss Ratings reissued a “hold (c)” rating on shares of UiPath in a research note on Friday, March 27th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, fourteen have issued a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the company has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $13.87.

UiPath Stock Down 7.3%

The firm has a market capitalization of $6.36 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 20.24, a P/E/G ratio of 2.01 and a beta of 0.96. The stock’s 50 day moving average price is $10.75 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $12.89.

UiPath (NYSE:PATH) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May 28th. The company reported $0.15 earnings per share for the quarter, hitting analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.15. UiPath had a net margin of 19.58% and a return on equity of 7.92%. The business had revenue of $418.38 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $397.54 million. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $0.11 earnings per share. UiPath’s revenue for the quarter was up 17.3% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, equities analysts expect that UiPath, Inc. will post 0.31 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On UiPath

Hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the stock. Noble Wealth Management PBC acquired a new position in shares of UiPath in the fourth quarter worth $25,000. HighMark Wealth Management LLC acquired a new position in shares of UiPath in the fourth quarter worth $25,000. Raleigh Capital Management Inc. acquired a new position in shares of UiPath in the fourth quarter worth $26,000. TD Waterhouse Canada Inc. increased its stake in shares of UiPath by 1,270.8% in the fourth quarter. TD Waterhouse Canada Inc. now owns 1,782 shares of the company’s stock worth $29,000 after acquiring an additional 1,652 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Atlas Capital Advisors Inc. acquired a new position in shares of UiPath in the fourth quarter worth $37,000. 62.50% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

UiPath Company Profile

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.