Traders Buy Large Volume of Call Options on UiPath (NYSE:PATH)

UiPath, Inc. (NYSE:PATH) was the target of unusually large options trading activity on Tuesday. Stock investors bought 134,459 call options on the company. This represents an increase of 54% compared to the average volume of 87,495 call options.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of equities research analysts recently issued reports on PATH shares. Canaccord Genuity Group lifted their target price on UiPath from $15.00 to $19.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, December 4th. Weiss Ratings reiterated a “hold (c)” rating on shares of UiPath in a report on Monday, December 29th. Evercore ISI increased their target price on shares of UiPath from $15.00 to $17.00 and gave the stock an “in-line” rating in a report on Thursday, December 4th. Cowen reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of UiPath in a research report on Thursday, December 4th. Finally, BMO Capital Markets boosted their price target on shares of UiPath from $13.00 to $17.00 and gave the stock a “market perform” rating in a research report on Thursday, December 4th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, one has given a Buy rating, fourteen have given a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, UiPath presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $16.00.

Insider Buying and Selling at UiPath

In other UiPath news, CFO Ashim Gupta sold 67,468 shares of UiPath stock in a transaction dated 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. This trade represents a 10.80% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. Also, CEO Daniel Dines sold 45,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, January 12th. The shares were sold at an average price of $16.61, for a total value of $747,450.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer owned 28,163,585 shares in the company, valued at approximately $467,797,146.85. 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 1,405,362 shares of company stock worth $23,325,637 over the last ninety days. 23.19% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Noble Wealth Management PBC acquired a new stake in UiPath during the fourth quarter worth about $25,000. Twin Peaks Wealth Advisors LLC acquired a new position in shares of UiPath in the 2nd quarter valued at approximately $28,000. AdvisorNet Financial Inc lifted its holdings in shares of UiPath by 320.4% during the 2nd quarter. AdvisorNet Financial Inc now owns 2,476 shares of the company’s stock worth $32,000 after acquiring an additional 1,887 shares during the period. GAMMA Investing LLC boosted its position in shares of UiPath by 48.0% during the 2nd quarter. GAMMA Investing LLC now owns 2,989 shares of the company’s stock worth $38,000 after acquiring an additional 969 shares in the last quarter. Finally, IFP Advisors Inc increased its stake in UiPath by 508.0% in the second quarter. IFP Advisors Inc now owns 3,283 shares of the company’s stock valued at $42,000 after acquiring an additional 2,743 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 62.50% of the company’s stock.

UiPath Price Performance

UiPath stock traded down $1.30 during trading hours on Tuesday, hitting $15.94. The company had a trading volume of 49,504,429 shares, compared to its average volume of 27,973,926. The firm has a market cap of $8.52 billion, a PE ratio of 37.95, a PEG ratio of 4.79 and a beta of 1.08. UiPath has a one year low of $9.38 and a one year high of $19.84. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $15.67 and a 200 day moving average of $13.85.

UiPath (NYSE:PATH) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, December 3rd. The company reported $0.16 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates 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 analysts’ expectations of $392.46 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $0.11 earnings per share. The business’s revenue was up 15.9% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, research analysts expect that UiPath will post -0.17 earnings per share for the current year.

Key UiPath News

Here are the key news stories impacting UiPath this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Recent results and product traction: UiPath continues to show revenue and EPS beats (Q3 2025 revenue +15.9% and an EPS beat), and management has highlighted accelerating adoption of AI agents and Maestro orchestration — positive fundamentals that support upside over time. MarketBeat: PATH company/earnings summary
• Positive Sentiment: Momentum & analyst commentary: Recent Zacks pieces argue PATH is regaining market confidence and has momentum as AI automation adoption improves, which can attract momentum-focused flows. Zacks: Momentum stock piece
• Positive Sentiment: Positioning in AI theme: MarketBeat’s AI roundup lists UiPath as a cross-cloud/agentic-AI play, reinforcing longer-term thematic interest from AI-focused investors. MarketBeat: 5 AI stocks
• Positive Sentiment: Event visibility: UiPath presented at the Needham Growth Conference (transcript available), giving investors fresh management commentary on strategy and execution. Positive conference commentary can support sentiment if details on client wins/product metrics resonate. Seeking Alpha: Needham transcript
• Neutral Sentiment: Analyst/valuation backdrop: Consensus remains a “Hold” with a ~$16 target; some boutiques have nudged targets higher while several analysts remain cautious — this mixed guidance can limit large rallies. MarketBeat: analyst consensus
• Negative Sentiment: Insider selling pressure: CEO Daniel Dines has sold multiple 45k-share blocks in early Jan. (latest disclosed sale ~45,000 shares at ~$16.61), a string of sales that may stoke short-term selling pressure and investor concern despite his large remaining stake. InsiderTrades: CEO sells

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.