UiPath (NYSE:PATH) Shares Down 2.3% – Here’s What Happened

UiPath, Inc. (NYSE:PATH)’s share price traded down 2.3% during trading on Friday . The stock traded as low as $14.76 and last traded at $14.8070. 22,773,102 shares traded hands during mid-day trading, a decline of 17% from the average session volume of 27,347,496 shares. The stock had previously closed at $15.15.

Key Headlines Impacting UiPath

Here are the key news stories impacting UiPath this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Analyst note: Zacks highlights UiPath’s strategic shift toward agentic AI and argues the platform-led approach turns orchestration into operating leverage, which could deepen customer adoption and lift margins over time. UiPath’s Platform-Led Operating Leverage in the Age of Agentic AI
• Positive Sentiment: Broker perspective: Barclays raised its PATH price target to $18 (from $16) and reiterated a constructive view tied to stable IT spending, signaling supportive analyst sentiment even though the rating remained neutral. Barclays Is Bullish on UiPath, Inc. (PATH) Amid Stable IT Spending Outlook
• Positive Sentiment: Media/TV endorsement: Jim Cramer and other commentators are publicly bullish on UiPath’s longer?term upside, which can support demand from retail and momentum buyers over time. Jim Cramer on UiPath
• Positive Sentiment: Macro/catalyst view: Coverage noting “catalysts reframing the automation narrative” points to accelerating AI-driven use cases and integration that could re-rate growth expectations if adoption and monetization accelerate. What Catalysts Are Reframing The UiPath (PATH) Automation Narrative?
• Neutral Sentiment: Investor interest: Zacks flags PATH as a trending/watched stock, which can increase volatility from short?term flows even absent new fundamental news. Is Trending Stock UiPath, Inc. (PATH) a Buy Now?
• Neutral Sentiment: Valuation signals mixed: Recent pieces point to mixed P/E and DCF signals after recent share weakness — investors are parsing whether current multiples fairly price in AI upside versus remaining execution/earnings risk. UiPath (PATH) Valuation Check After Recent Share Price Weakness And Mixed P/E And DCF Signals
• Neutral Sentiment: Peer/sector context: Comparison pieces (eg. vs. Rapid7) and broader “top tech picks” coverage show analysts are weighing UiPath against other growth/mid?cap tech names for allocation decisions. Contrasting Rapid7 (NASDAQ:RPD) and UiPath (NYSE:PATH)
• Negative Sentiment: Near-term selling pressure: A Zacks note flagged a recent daily drop in PATH despite broader market gains, reflecting short?term profit?taking and sensitivity to mixed signals on guidance/valuation that can push the stock lower even with positive long?term narratives. UiPath (PATH) Stock Drops Despite Market Gains

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several analysts recently issued reports on the stock. TD Cowen restated a “hold” rating on shares of UiPath in a report on Thursday, December 4th. DA Davidson boosted their price target on shares of UiPath from $12.00 to $15.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Thursday, December 4th. Mizuho increased their price objective on shares of UiPath from $14.00 to $15.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Thursday, December 4th. Morgan Stanley lifted their target price on shares of UiPath from $15.00 to $19.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Tuesday, December 9th. Finally, Truist Financial set a $17.00 price target on UiPath in a research note on Thursday, December 4th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, one has given a Buy rating, fourteen have assigned a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, UiPath currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $16.00.

UiPath Stock Performance

The company’s 50-day simple moving average is $15.77 and its 200 day simple moving average is $13.96. The company has a market cap of $7.92 billion, a PE ratio of 35.25, a PEG ratio of 4.34 and a beta of 1.08.

UiPath (NYSE:PATH) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, December 3rd. The company reported $0.16 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating 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 business had revenue of $411.11 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $392.46 million. During the same period last year, the firm earned $0.11 earnings per share. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 15.9% compared to the same quarter last year. Analysts forecast that UiPath, Inc. will post -0.17 EPS for the current year.

Insider Activity

In related news, CFO Ashim Gupta sold 67,468 shares of UiPath stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, January 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of $16.10, for a total value of $1,086,234.80. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer owned 557,028 shares in the company, 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 legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this hyperlink. Also, CEO Daniel Dines sold 45,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, December 8th. The stock was sold at an average price of $19.21, for a total transaction of $864,450.00. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer owned 29,153,585 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $560,040,367.85. This trade represents a 0.15% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Insiders sold a total of 1,085,048 shares of company stock valued at $18,132,194 in the last quarter. Company insiders own 23.19% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On UiPath

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of PATH. Farther Finance Advisors LLC grew its stake in shares of UiPath by 657.5% during the fourth quarter. Farther Finance Advisors LLC now owns 15,870 shares of the company’s stock worth $260,000 after purchasing an additional 13,775 shares in the last quarter. State of Alaska Department of Revenue purchased a new stake in UiPath during the 4th quarter worth about $686,000. Stanley Laman Group Ltd. acquired a new position in shares of UiPath during the 4th quarter worth about $357,000. Burney Co. acquired a new position in shares of UiPath during the 4th quarter worth about $2,285,000. Finally, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group Inc. increased its holdings in shares of UiPath by 1.9% in the 4th quarter. Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group Inc. now owns 37,871 shares of the company’s stock valued at $621,000 after acquiring an additional 720 shares during the last quarter. 62.50% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

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.