UiPath (NYSE:PATH) Stock Price Down 8.1% – Should You Sell?

UiPath, Inc. (NYSE:PATH) shares traded down 8.1% on Wednesday . The stock traded as low as $11.93 and last traded at $11.8970. 5,736,264 shares traded hands during trading, a decline of 79% from the average session volume of 27,434,652 shares. The stock had previously closed at $12.95.

Trending Headlines about UiPath

Here are the key news stories impacting UiPath this week:

• Positive Sentiment: UiPath announced the acquisition of WorkFusion, strengthening its AML/KYC and financial‑crime automation suite and adding domain expertise and models that can accelerate adoption of UiPath’s AI agents in banks and regulated customers. This is a clear product/market fit move that should deepen enterprise sticky revenue in a high‑value vertical. UiPath buys WorkFusion to strengthen AML and KYC automation
• Positive Sentiment: Analyst commentary (Seeking Alpha) highlights UiPath’s positioning in the fast‑growing agentic AI market and notes improving operating margins and cash‑flow conversion after effective SG&A cuts — fundamentals that support longer‑term revenue leverage and profit improvement. UiPath: Underperforming Its Peers, But Still Worth Getting Behind
• Neutral Sentiment: Market‑timing coverage (Zacks) notes a recent ~25% one‑month slide and asks whether this is a buying opportunity despite GAAP profitability and ARR growth — signaling investor caution and suggesting subdued near‑term demand until sentiment stabilizes. UiPath Declines 25% in a Month: Has the Buying Level Been Reached Yet?
• Negative Sentiment: Prominent media/TV commentary (Jim Cramer) reiterated that UiPath may still be expensive, reviving valuation fears that can pressure multiple compression even as revenues grow. Such public skepticism often amplifies short‑term selling. Jim Cramer on UiPath (PATH): “It’s still too expensive a stock”

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several equities research analysts have commented on the company. Wall Street Zen lowered UiPath from a “strong-buy” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note on Sunday. UBS Group reiterated a “neutral” rating on shares of UiPath in a research report on Thursday, December 4th. Needham & Company LLC reissued a “hold” rating on shares of UiPath in a research note on Thursday, December 4th. Canaccord Genuity Group raised their price objective on UiPath from $15.00 to $19.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, December 4th. Finally, Mizuho upped their target price on shares of UiPath from $14.00 to $15.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a report on Thursday, December 4th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Buy rating, fifteen have given a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, UiPath currently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $15.77.

UiPath Stock Performance

The stock has a market cap of $6.27 billion, a PE ratio of 27.86, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.83 and a beta of 1.07. The company’s 50-day moving average price is $15.65 and its 200 day moving average price is $14.02.

UiPath (NYSE:PATH) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, December 3rd. The company reported $0.16 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.14 by $0.02. UiPath had a return on equity of 3.73% and a net margin of 14.79%.The company had revenue of $411.11 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $392.46 million. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $0.11 earnings per share. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 15.9% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, equities research analysts predict that UiPath, Inc. will post -0.17 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other UiPath news, CFO Ashim Gupta sold 67,468 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, January 5th. The stock was sold at an average price of $16.10, for a total value of $1,086,234.80. Following the sale, the chief financial officer owned 557,028 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $8,968,150.80. The trade was a 10.80% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. Also, CEO Daniel Dines sold 45,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Monday, January 26th. The stock was sold at an average price of $15.01, for a total value of $675,450.00. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer owned 27,893,585 shares in the company, valued at $418,682,710.85. 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. Insiders sold a total of 950,048 shares of company stock worth $15,881,744 over the last three months. Insiders own 23.19% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On UiPath

Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the company. Cerity Partners LLC grew its position in UiPath by 41.5% in the 4th quarter. Cerity Partners LLC now owns 73,379 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,203,000 after acquiring an additional 21,513 shares in the last quarter. O Shaughnessy Asset Management LLC grew its position in shares of UiPath by 27.7% during the fourth quarter. O Shaughnessy Asset Management LLC now owns 18,038 shares of the company’s stock worth $296,000 after buying an additional 3,913 shares in the last quarter. Tradition Wealth Management LLC purchased a new stake in shares of UiPath during the fourth quarter worth approximately $520,000. Cookson Peirce & Co. Inc. purchased a new position in UiPath in the fourth quarter worth approximately $1,248,000. Finally, WINTON GROUP Ltd purchased a new stake in shares of UiPath during the 4th quarter worth approximately $197,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 62.50% of the company’s stock.

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.