UiPath (NYSE:PATH) Downgraded to Hold Rating by Wall Street Zen

UiPath (NYSE:PATH) was downgraded by research analysts at Wall Street Zen from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report released on Saturday.

A number of other equities analysts have also weighed in on the company. Wells Fargo & Company lowered their price objective on UiPath from $14.00 to $13.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, March 12th. TD Cowen lowered their price objective on UiPath from $16.00 to $13.00 and set a “hold” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, March 12th. Needham & Company LLC reissued a “buy” rating and set a $15.00 price objective on shares of UiPath in a research note on Friday. Weiss Ratings reissued a “hold (c)” rating on shares of UiPath in a research note on Friday, March 27th. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada set a $14.00 price objective on UiPath in a research note on Wednesday, February 11th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, fourteen have given a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $14.00.

UiPath Price Performance

NYSE PATH opened at $11.69 on Friday. The company has a market cap of $6.12 billion, a PE ratio of 19.48, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.90 and a beta of 0.91. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $10.73 and its 200-day simple moving average is $12.91. UiPath has a 1-year low of $9.20 and a 1-year high of $19.84.

UiPath (NYSE:PATH) last released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May 28th. The company reported $0.15 earnings per share for the quarter, hitting analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.15. The company had revenue of $418.38 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $397.54 million. UiPath had a return on equity of 7.94% and a net margin of 19.58%.The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 17.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $0.11 earnings per share. On average, equities research analysts anticipate that UiPath will post 0.32 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On UiPath

A number of institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of 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 grew its stake in shares of UiPath by 69.6% in the first quarter. Woodline Partners LP now owns 22,566 shares of the company’s stock valued at $232,000 after buying an additional 9,257 shares in the last quarter. UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC grew its stake in shares of UiPath by 5.4% in the first quarter. UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC now owns 1,477,730 shares of the company’s stock valued at $15,221,000 after buying an additional 75,737 shares in the last quarter. Sivia Capital Partners LLC acquired a new stake in shares of UiPath in the second quarter valued at $169,000. Finally, Prudential Financial Inc. grew its stake in shares of UiPath by 90.1% in the second quarter. Prudential Financial Inc. now owns 34,029 shares of the company’s stock valued at $436,000 after buying an additional 16,125 shares in the last quarter. 62.50% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Key UiPath News

Here are the key news stories impacting UiPath this week:

• Positive Sentiment: UiPath reported first-quarter fiscal 2027 results that topped revenue expectations, with sales rising 17.3% year over year to $418.4 million and adjusted EPS matching estimates at $0.15. Management also said ARR increased 12% to $1.901 billion, signaling continued customer adoption of its automation and agentic AI products. UiPath Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2027 Financial Results
• Positive Sentiment: The company raised its outlook, guiding second-quarter revenue to $395 million-$400 million and full-year FY2027 revenue to about $1.776 billion-$1.781 billion, while lifting non-GAAP operating income guidance to roughly $430 million. That improved profitability view is likely a key driver of investor optimism. Seeking Alpha revenue and operating income outlook
• Positive Sentiment: Recent reports also noted first-time GAAP profitability and stronger AI-related demand, including growth in enterprise expansion deals and agentic automation use cases. That helps reinforce the view that UiPath is moving toward more durable earnings power. UiPath Inc (PATH) Q1 2027 Earnings Call Highlights

About UiPath

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.