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

UiPath, Inc. (NYSE:PATH) saw unusually large options trading on Thursday. Stock traders purchased 110,442 call options on the stock. This represents an increase of approximately 78% compared to the average daily volume of 62,173 call options.

Trending Headlines about UiPath

Here are the key news stories impacting UiPath this week:

• Positive Sentiment: UiPath posted first-quarter EPS of $0.15, matching Wall Street estimates, while revenue came in at $418.4 million versus consensus of about $397.5 million, showing a modest top-line beat. UiPath Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2027 Financial Results
• Positive Sentiment: The company said annual recurring revenue rose 12% year over year to $1.901 billion, suggesting continued customer adoption and healthy underlying demand for its automation and agentic AI products. UiPath Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2027 Financial Results
• Neutral Sentiment: Management’s next-quarter revenue outlook of $395 million to $400 million is close to analyst expectations, and full-year revenue guidance is also broadly in line, which limits upside from guidance alone. UiPath Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2027 Financial Results
• Neutral Sentiment: UiPath also expanded its partnership with Deloitte to integrate Test Cloud into Deloitte’s Ascend platform, which could support longer-term enterprise adoption of its AI-driven testing tools. UiPath Deloitte Deal Highlights Agentic AI Testing And Adoption Potential
• Negative Sentiment: Some commentary suggests UiPath still faces slower growth expectations versus higher-momentum AI software peers, which may cap enthusiasm after the report. Palantir vs. UiPath: Which AI-First Software Stock is a Buy?

UiPath Stock Performance

NYSE PATH opened at $11.60 on Friday. UiPath has a twelve month low of $9.20 and a twelve month high of $19.84. The stock has a market capitalization of $6.08 billion, a PE ratio of 22.31, a P/E/G ratio of 1.83 and a beta of 0.91. The stock has a 50-day simple moving average of $10.74 and a 200 day simple moving average of $12.91.

UiPath (NYSE:PATH) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May 28th. The company reported $0.15 earnings per share for the quarter, hitting the consensus estimate of $0.15. The business had revenue of $418.38 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $397.54 million. UiPath had a return on equity of 5.69% and a net margin of 17.53%.The firm’s revenue was up 17.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $0.11 EPS. As a group, equities research analysts forecast that UiPath will post 0.32 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On UiPath

Several large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Vanguard Group Inc. raised its holdings in UiPath by 2.5% in the 4th quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 49,114,941 shares of the company’s stock valued at $804,994,000 after acquiring an additional 1,219,057 shares in the last quarter. State Street Corp raised its holdings in UiPath by 66.4% in the 4th quarter. State Street Corp now owns 13,004,786 shares of the company’s stock valued at $213,148,000 after acquiring an additional 5,189,438 shares in the last quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC raised its holdings in UiPath by 76.0% in the 2nd quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC now owns 11,407,569 shares of the company’s stock valued at $145,732,000 after acquiring an additional 4,926,341 shares in the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE raised its holdings in UiPath by 13.2% in the 1st quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 10,046,699 shares of the company’s stock valued at $111,518,000 after acquiring an additional 1,170,285 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Morgan Stanley raised its holdings in UiPath by 54.0% in the 4th quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 9,310,304 shares of the company’s stock valued at $152,596,000 after acquiring an additional 3,262,930 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 62.50% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several analysts have recently issued reports on PATH shares. Mizuho decreased their price target on UiPath from $15.00 to $12.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, March 12th. Needham & Company LLC raised UiPath from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $15.00 price objective for the company in a research report on Thursday, March 12th. Wells Fargo & Company cut their price objective on UiPath from $14.00 to $13.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, March 12th. Wall Street Zen cut UiPath from a “strong-buy” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Saturday, March 28th. Finally, Bank of America cut their price objective on UiPath from $14.00 to $12.00 and set an “underperform” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, March 12th. Three analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, fourteen have issued a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $14.07.

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.