UiPath (NYSE:PATH) Trading Down 6.7% – Here’s Why

Shares of UiPath, Inc. (NYSE:PATH) were down 6.7% during trading on Tuesday . The company traded as low as $13.85 and last traded at $14.1680. 10,201,602 shares traded hands during mid-day trading, a decline of 78% from the average session volume of 46,214,875 shares. The stock had previously closed at $15.19.

UiPath News Summary

Here are the key news stories impacting UiPath this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Citi initiated coverage of UiPath with a Buy rating and a $23 price target, implying substantial upside from recent trading levels. Analyst support may help establish a valuation floor following the post-earnings selloff. UiPath Slips 3% Despite Citi Buy Initiation and $23 Target
• Positive Sentiment: UiPath released a global survey highlighting enterprise demand for orchestration to move agentic-AI projects beyond pilot programs. The report supports the company’s positioning in workflow automation and AI deployment, although it does not provide a direct financial forecast. UiPath Survey Points to Orchestration as Key to Scaling Enterprise Deployments
• Positive Sentiment: UiPath also gained a new integration from Synthesized for automated test-data provisioning, potentially expanding the practical use of its platform in continuous software testing. Synthesized Launches UiPath Integration
• Negative Sentiment: The main catalyst for selling has been UiPath’s fiscal third-quarter revenue guidance: the midpoint reportedly fell short of Wall Street expectations. That outlook overshadowed a second-quarter revenue beat, stronger profitability, and raised full-year guidance. Why UiPath Stock Is Trading Lower
• Negative Sentiment: Analysts have raised price targets but remain cautious or hold-rated, signaling that investors want clearer evidence that AI features can accelerate revenue growth. This cautious response has extended the post-earnings selloff despite the company’s operational improvements. PATH Stock Wrapped Its Worst Week in Four Months

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several equities research analysts have issued reports on the stock. Oppenheimer reiterated a “market perform” rating on shares of UiPath in a research note on Friday, September 4th. Citigroup started coverage on UiPath in a report on Tuesday. They issued a “buy” rating and a $23.00 price objective for the company. Barclays upped their target price on UiPath from $14.00 to $17.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a report on Friday, September 4th. Royal Bank Of Canada increased their price target on UiPath from $15.00 to $17.00 and gave the company a “sector perform” rating in a research report on Friday, September 4th. Finally, Truist Financial raised their price target on UiPath from $12.00 to $17.00 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a research note on Friday, September 4th. Three analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, sixteen have given a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $16.75.

UiPath Trading Down 2.9%

The company has a market capitalization of $7.05 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 20.31, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.55 and a beta of 1.02. The firm’s 50 day moving average price is $14.11 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $12.01.

UiPath (NYSE:PATH) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, September 3rd. The company reported $0.15 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, meeting the consensus estimate of $0.15. UiPath had a net margin of 21.03% and a return on equity of 9.70%. The business had revenue of $410.26 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $397.77 million. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.15 EPS. UiPath’s revenue was up 13.3% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, equities research analysts predict that UiPath, Inc. will post 0.42 EPS for the current year.

Insider Transactions at UiPath

In other news, CEO Daniel Dines sold 1,402,347 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred 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 sale, the chief executive officer directly owned 26,491,238 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $425,714,194.66. This trade represents a 5.03% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at this link. 22.44% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Meeder Advisory Services Inc. lifted its holdings in UiPath by 7.6% during the 4th quarter. Meeder Advisory Services Inc. now owns 12,132 shares of the company’s stock valued at $199,000 after purchasing an additional 861 shares during the last quarter. Pasadena Private Wealth LLC increased its holdings in shares of UiPath by 9.0% in the first quarter. Pasadena Private Wealth LLC now owns 12,750 shares of the company’s stock valued at $142,000 after purchasing an additional 1,050 shares during the last quarter. Allworth Financial LP raised its position in shares of UiPath by 5.2% in the second quarter. Allworth Financial LP now owns 23,537 shares of the company’s stock valued at $256,000 after purchasing an additional 1,160 shares during the period. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC raised its position in shares of UiPath by 36.5% in the fourth quarter. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 4,968 shares of the company’s stock valued at $81,000 after purchasing an additional 1,329 shares during the period. Finally, Corient Private Wealth LLC lifted its stake in shares of UiPath by 5.6% during the 4th quarter. Corient Private Wealth LLC now owns 27,283 shares of the company’s stock worth $447,000 after buying an additional 1,455 shares during the last quarter. 62.50% of the stock is 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.