Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. Buys 99,181 Shares of UiPath, Inc. $PATH

Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. increased its stake in shares of UiPath, Inc. (NYSE:PATH) by 48.5% during the second quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 303,584 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 99,181 shares during the quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co.’s holdings in UiPath were worth $3,300,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

A number of other hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in PATH. BlackRock Inc. raised its holdings in UiPath by 7.2% in the 2nd quarter. BlackRock Inc. now owns 46,153,124 shares of the company’s stock valued at $501,684,000 after acquiring an additional 3,097,822 shares in the last quarter. State Street Corp grew its holdings in shares of UiPath by 66.4% during the 4th quarter. State Street Corp now owns 13,004,786 shares of the company’s stock worth $213,148,000 after purchasing an additional 5,189,438 shares in the last quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC increased its position in shares of UiPath by 76.0% in the second quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC now owns 11,407,569 shares of the company’s stock worth $145,732,000 after purchasing an additional 4,926,341 shares during the period. Bank of America Corp DE increased its position in shares of UiPath by 13.2% in the first quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 10,046,699 shares of the company’s stock worth $111,518,000 after purchasing an additional 1,170,285 shares during the period. Finally, Morgan Stanley lifted its position in UiPath by 54.0% during the fourth quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 9,310,304 shares of the company’s stock worth $152,596,000 after purchasing an additional 3,262,930 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 62.50% of the company’s stock.

UiPath Trading Up 0.6%

Shares of UiPath stock opened at $18.09 on Friday. The firm’s 50 day moving average is $13.82 and its 200 day moving average is $11.92. The firm has a market capitalization of $9.37 billion, a PE ratio of 30.15, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.16 and a beta of 1.02. UiPath, Inc. has a 1 year low of $9.20 and a 1 year high of $19.84.

UiPath (NYSE:PATH) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, September 3rd. The company reported $0.15 EPS for the quarter, meeting the consensus estimate of $0.15. UiPath had a net margin of 19.58% and a return on equity of 7.92%. The business had revenue of $410.26 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $397.77 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.15 EPS. The firm’s revenue was up 13.3% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, research analysts anticipate that UiPath, Inc. will post 0.4 earnings per share for the current year.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

PATH has been the topic of several recent analyst reports. Bank of America raised their target price on shares of UiPath from $12.00 to $13.00 and gave the company an “underperform” rating in a report on Friday, May 29th. BMO Capital Markets reduced their price target on shares of UiPath from $14.00 to $13.00 and set a “market perform” rating on the stock in a research report on Monday, June 1st. DA Davidson decreased their price objective on shares of UiPath from $13.00 to $12.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, May 29th. UBS Group upped their target price on UiPath from $12.00 to $19.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research note on Monday. Finally, Wall Street Zen lowered UiPath from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Saturday, May 30th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, fourteen have issued a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $14.80.

Insider Activity

In other news, CEO Daniel Dines sold 1,402,347 shares of the stock in a transaction on Wednesday, August 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $16.07, for a total value of $22,535,716.29. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer directly owned 26,491,238 shares in the company, valued at approximately $425,714,194.66. This represents a 5.03% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Company insiders own 22.44% of the company’s stock.

UiPath News Roundup

Here are the key news stories impacting UiPath this week:

• Positive Sentiment: UiPath reported fiscal Q2 adjusted earnings of $0.15 per share, matching consensus estimates and the year-ago result. The company characterized the quarter as disciplined execution with growing momentum across its automation and AI platform. UiPath Meets Q2 Earnings Estimates
• Positive Sentiment: Third-quarter fiscal 2027 revenue guidance of $440 million to $445 million has a midpoint modestly above the $441.1 million analyst consensus, suggesting continued demand for the company’s automation and orchestration products. UiPath Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2027 Financial Results
• Positive Sentiment: UiPath highlighted the expanding role of AI in enterprise automation, including increased demand for orchestration and governance, supporting the longer-term growth narrative. The company also announced a strategic deal with STC Bahrain that could broaden enterprise adoption in the region. STC Bahrain UiPath Deal
• Neutral Sentiment: Full-year fiscal 2027 revenue guidance of approximately $1.8 billion is essentially in line with consensus, indicating that management maintained its broader outlook rather than materially raising expectations.
• Neutral Sentiment: UiPath announced executive leadership changes and added a new board member. The changes may support the company’s strategic evolution, but investors will likely seek more detail on responsibilities and execution implications. UiPath Leadership Changes
• Negative Sentiment: Reported GAAP earnings of $0.09 per share were below the $0.15 consensus estimate in one market-data account, highlighting a difference between GAAP and adjusted results that could create short-term volatility.

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.