UiPath (NYSE:PATH) Given “Buy” Rating at Needham & Company LLC

Needham & Company LLC reaffirmed their buy rating on shares of UiPath (NYSE:PATH) in a report published on Friday morning,Benzinga reports. Needham & Company LLC currently has a $15.00 target price on the stock.

Several other brokerages also recently commented on PATH. Wall Street Zen downgraded UiPath from a “strong-buy” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note on Saturday, March 28th. DA Davidson reduced their target price on UiPath from $15.00 to $13.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, March 12th. TD Cowen reduced their target price on UiPath from $16.00 to $13.00 and set a “hold” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, March 12th. UBS Group reduced their target price on UiPath from $17.00 to $13.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, March 12th. Finally, Bank of America raised their target price on UiPath from $12.00 to $13.00 and gave the company an “underperform” rating in a research note on Friday. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, fourteen have given a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, UiPath currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $14.00.

UiPath Stock Up 0.9%

Shares of PATH stock opened at $11.69 on Friday. The company has a market cap of $6.12 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.48, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.90 and a beta of 0.91. UiPath has a 52 week low of $9.20 and a 52 week high of $19.84. The firm has a 50 day moving average of $10.73 and a 200-day moving average of $12.91.

UiPath (NYSE:PATH) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May 28th. The company reported $0.15 EPS for the quarter, hitting the consensus estimate of $0.15. The company had revenue of $418.38 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $397.54 million. UiPath had a net margin of 19.58% and a return on equity of 7.94%. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 17.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $0.11 EPS. Analysts anticipate that UiPath will post 0.32 earnings per share for the current year.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On UiPath

Several hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of PATH. Vanguard Group Inc. raised its holdings in shares of UiPath by 4.9% in the 3rd quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 47,895,884 shares of the company’s stock worth $640,847,000 after purchasing an additional 2,251,434 shares during the period. DNB Asset Management AS raised its holdings in shares of UiPath by 266.4% in the 4th quarter. DNB Asset Management AS now owns 565,799 shares of the company’s stock worth $9,273,000 after purchasing an additional 411,395 shares during the period. Jackson Creek Investment Advisors LLC bought a new stake in shares of UiPath in the 3rd quarter worth approximately $1,579,000. Hillsdale Investment Management Inc. raised its holdings in shares of UiPath by 413.7% in the 3rd quarter. Hillsdale Investment Management Inc. now owns 307,700 shares of the company’s stock worth $4,117,000 after purchasing an additional 247,800 shares during the period. Finally, Burney Co. bought a new stake in shares of UiPath in the 4th quarter worth approximately $2,285,000. Institutional investors own 62.50% of the company’s stock.

Trending Headlines about UiPath

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

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.