UiPath (NYSE:PATH) Price Target Raised to $14.00 at Mizuho

UiPath (NYSE:PATH) had its price objective lifted by equities researchers at Mizuho from $12.00 to $14.00 in a report issued on Friday, Benzinga reports. The brokerage presently has a “neutral” rating on the stock. Mizuho’s target price suggests a potential downside of 7.74% from the stock’s previous close.

A number of other equities research analysts also recently issued reports on the stock. Barclays set a $17.00 target price on shares of UiPath in a report on Friday. Needham & Company LLC increased their price target on shares of UiPath from $15.00 to $22.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday. BMO Capital Markets upped their price objective on UiPath from $13.00 to $18.00 and gave the stock a “market perform” rating in a report on Friday. Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a “hold (c-)” rating on shares of UiPath in a research report on Friday, July 10th. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company lifted their target price on UiPath from $13.00 to $15.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Friday. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, sixteen have issued a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $16.00.

UiPath Stock Performance

NYSE PATH traded down $3.05 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $15.17. 49,494,760 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 46,122,281. The business’s 50 day moving average is $13.82 and its 200-day moving average is $11.92. UiPath has a 12-month low of $9.20 and a 12-month high of $19.84. The firm has a market capitalization of $7.86 billion, a P/E ratio of 25.25, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.16 and a beta of 1.02.

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

Insider Activity at UiPath

In related news, CEO Daniel Dines sold 1,402,347 shares of UiPath stock in a transaction on Wednesday, August 19th. The shares were sold at an average price of $16.07, for a total transaction of $22,535,716.29. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer owned 26,491,238 shares in the company, valued at approximately $425,714,194.66. The trade was a 5.03% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. Corporate insiders own 22.44% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in PATH. Royal Bank of Canada grew its stake in shares of UiPath by 8.4% in the first quarter. Royal Bank of Canada now owns 140,774 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,450,000 after buying an additional 10,872 shares in the last quarter. Woodline Partners LP lifted its position in UiPath by 69.6% during the 1st quarter. Woodline Partners LP now owns 22,566 shares of the company’s stock worth $232,000 after acquiring an additional 9,257 shares in the last quarter. UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC lifted its position in UiPath by 5.4% during the 1st quarter. UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC now owns 1,477,730 shares of the company’s stock worth $15,221,000 after acquiring an additional 75,737 shares in the last quarter. Sivia Capital Partners LLC purchased a new position in UiPath in the 2nd quarter worth approximately $169,000. Finally, Prudential Financial Inc. boosted its holdings in UiPath by 90.1% in the 2nd quarter. Prudential Financial Inc. now owns 34,029 shares of the company’s stock worth $436,000 after acquiring an additional 16,125 shares during the period. 62.50% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Key Stories Impacting UiPath

Here are the key news stories impacting UiPath this week:

• Positive Sentiment: UiPath reported fiscal Q2 2027 revenue of $410.3 million, up approximately 13% year over year and above the $397.8 million analyst estimate. Adjusted earnings of $0.15 per share matched expectations. UiPath Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2027 Financial Results
• Positive Sentiment: Annual recurring revenue rose 12% to $1.938 billion, while UiPath recorded its fourth consecutive quarter of GAAP profitability. Management said AI-led orchestration is helping expand platform usage, improve retention and support larger enterprise deals. PATH Q2 Earnings Call Centers on AI-Led Platform Expansion
• Positive Sentiment: Fiscal 2027 revenue guidance of approximately $1.789 billion to $1.794 billion was maintained or raised modestly, and third-quarter revenue guidance of $440 million to $445 million is broadly in line with consensus. UiPath FY2027 Guidance
• Neutral Sentiment: Analysts raised their price targets, including BMO to $18, DA Davidson to $16 and Wells Fargo to $15, but each retained a neutral or market-perform stance, indicating limited conviction that the recent rally can continue. UiPath Analyst and Earnings Coverage
• Negative Sentiment: The outlook implies a sharp growth deceleration, with management keeping fiscal 2027 guidance prudent despite the quarterly beat. Investors appear concerned that AI has not yet produced the acceleration seen at some other software companies and could ultimately disrupt traditional automation demand. UiPath Tumbles as Guided Slowdown Overshadows Revenue Beat
• Negative Sentiment: After a strong August rally, elevated valuation and profit-taking amplified the reaction to the merely in-line EPS result. A finance leadership transition and broader executive changes add an additional near-term uncertainty. UiPath Rating Downgrade

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.