Universal Corporation

UVV · NYSE · Stock · Consumer Defensive
$40.67
+0.59% today
Delayed price,

What Universal does

Universal Corporation, a business-to-business agriproducts company, provides leaf tobacco and plant-based ingredients to food and beverage end markets worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Tobacco Operations and Ingredients Operations. The Tobacco Operations segment is involved in procuring, processing, packing of flue-cured, burley, dark air-cured, and oriental leaf tobacco for consumer product manufacturers, as well as provision of related services. This segment also offers specialty services, such as custom blending, chemical and physical testing of tobacco, service cutting, reconstituted leaf tobacco manufacturing, and just-in-time product delivery services; and liquid nicotine for tobacco products manufacturers, as well as recycled waste materials from tobacco production. The Ingredients Operations segment engages in the production of specialty plant-based ingredients, including fruits, vegetables, herbs, fruit and vegetable juices, concentrates, pomaces, ciders, purees, nutraceuticals, fruit fibers, seeds, seed powders, dehydrated products, botanical extracts, distillates, natural flavors, colors, and other value-added products for consumer-packaged goods manufacturers and retailers, as well as food, and beverage companies. The company was founded in 1918 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.

Key facts

Sector
Consumer Defensive
Industry
Tobacco
Market cap
$1.01B
P/E (ttm)
53.5
Forward P/E
10.3
Dividend yield
8.16%
Beta
0.57
Profit margin
0.7%
Employees
11,250
Headquarters
Richmond, VA, United States
Exchange
NYSE

Performance

1 Month
-7.9%
3 Months
-23.5%
6 Months
-22.5%
1 Year
-24.2%
5 Years
-12.7%
$40.1452-week range$59.38
Biggest setback — last 12 months
-29.7%
2 Feb 2026 → 12 Oct 2026
Fell from $57.82 to $40.67 — its sharpest sustained decline this year.
Biggest run-up — last 12 months
+14.1%
27 Oct 2025 → 2 Feb 2026
Ran from $50.68 to $57.82 — its strongest sustained advance this year.

Price outlook — trend & volatility model

▼ Trend: Downtrend
Price is below its 20-, 50- and 200-day averages, each stacked below the next — a classic technical downtrend structure.
HorizonBear case (−1σ)Base caseBull case (+1σ)
1 Month$37.93 (-6.7%)$40.67$43.61 (+7.2%)
3 Months$36.03 (-11.4%)$40.67$45.90 (+12.9%)
6 Months$34.27 (-15.7%)$40.67$48.26 (+18.7%)
12 Months$31.93 (-21.5%)$40.67$51.81 (+27.4%)
Statistical, not machine-learning: a random-walk (no assumed drift) volatility model built from this ticker's own realized price history, plus a purely descriptive moving-average trend read. Illustrative only — not a price target and not financial advice. The bear and bull cases sit one standard deviation (1σ) below and above today's price, a range that covers about 68% of the outcomes the model treats as plausible, not a 68% chance of either case. Annualized volatility used: 24.2%, blended from this ticker's own 3-month and 1-year realized price history. Base case is deliberately flat — this quantifies a possible range, not a directional prediction. See the full model, including wider (≈95%) bands →

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Recent insider activity

Sold 6,469 shares at $41.68 — Wigner Preston Douglas, Chairman, President & CEO · 2026-10-05
Sold 1,782 shares at $49.82 — Freeman Lennart R., Director · 2026-08-11
Acquired 2,650 shares — Williams Jacqueline T., Director · 2026-08-06
Acquired 2,650 shares — Cantor Diana F, Director · 2026-08-06
Acquired 2,650 shares — Schick Arthur J. Jr., Director · 2026-08-06
Source: SEC Form 4 filings. An "acquired" entry with no price is typically a stock award or option exercise rather than an open-market purchase. Search all insider trades →

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