UiPath (NYSE:PATH) Given New $15.00 Price Target at Bank of America

UiPath (NYSE:PATH) had its price objective boosted by research analysts at Bank of America from $13.00 to $15.00 in a report released on Friday, Benzinga reports. The brokerage currently has an “underperform” rating on the stock. Bank of America‘s target price suggests a potential downside of 1.76% from the stock’s previous close.

Several other research firms have also weighed in on PATH. Needham & Company LLC raised their target price on UiPath from $15.00 to $22.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday. BMO Capital Markets boosted their target price on UiPath from $13.00 to $18.00 and gave the stock a “market perform” rating in a report on Friday. Barclays set a $17.00 price target on shares of UiPath in a research report on Friday. Wall Street Zen downgraded shares of UiPath from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Saturday, May 30th. Finally, DA Davidson lifted their target price on shares of UiPath from $12.00 to $16.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a report on Friday. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, sixteen have given a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $15.87.

UiPath Stock Performance

Shares of NYSE:PATH traded down $2.95 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $15.27. 44,299,914 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 46,097,383. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $13.82 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $11.92. The company has a market cap of $7.91 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 25.29, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.16 and a beta of 1.02. UiPath has a 52 week low of $9.20 and a 52 week high of $19.84.

UiPath (NYSE:PATH) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, September 3rd. The company reported $0.15 earnings per share for the quarter, hitting analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.15. UiPath had a net margin of 19.58% and a return on equity of 7.92%. The business had revenue of $410.26 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $397.77 million. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $0.15 earnings per share. UiPath’s revenue for the quarter was up 13.3% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, analysts anticipate that UiPath will post 0.4 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, CEO Daniel Dines sold 1,402,347 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, August 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $16.07, for a total transaction 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 position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. 22.44% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On UiPath

A number of institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the stock. HighMark Wealth Management LLC bought a new stake in shares of UiPath during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $25,000. Trifecta Capital Advisors LLC acquired a new stake in shares of UiPath in the 2nd quarter valued at $27,000. Atlas Capital Advisors Inc. bought a new stake in shares of UiPath during the fourth quarter worth $37,000. AdvisorNet Financial Inc boosted its holdings in UiPath by 750.0% in the first quarter. AdvisorNet Financial Inc now owns 3,400 shares of the company’s stock valued at $38,000 after acquiring an additional 3,000 shares during the last quarter. Finally, REAP Financial Group LLC acquired a new stake in UiPath in the fourth quarter worth about $44,000. 62.50% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

UiPath News Summary

Here are the key news stories impacting UiPath this week:

• Positive Sentiment: UiPath reported fiscal Q2 2027 revenue of $410.3 million, up approximately 13% year over year and above the $397.8 million analyst estimate. Adjusted earnings of $0.15 per share matched expectations. UiPath Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2027 Financial Results
• Positive Sentiment: Annual recurring revenue rose 12% to $1.938 billion, while UiPath recorded its fourth consecutive quarter of GAAP profitability. Management said AI-led orchestration is helping expand platform usage, improve retention and support larger enterprise deals. PATH Q2 Earnings Call Centers on AI-Led Platform Expansion
• Positive Sentiment: Fiscal 2027 revenue guidance of approximately $1.789 billion to $1.794 billion was maintained or raised modestly, and third-quarter revenue guidance of $440 million to $445 million is broadly in line with consensus. UiPath FY2027 Guidance
• Neutral Sentiment: Analysts raised their price targets, including BMO to $18, DA Davidson to $16 and Wells Fargo to $15, but each retained a neutral or market-perform stance, indicating limited conviction that the recent rally can continue. UiPath Analyst and Earnings Coverage
• Negative Sentiment: The outlook implies a sharp growth deceleration, with management keeping fiscal 2027 guidance prudent despite the quarterly beat. Investors appear concerned that AI has not yet produced the acceleration seen at some other software companies and could ultimately disrupt traditional automation demand. UiPath Tumbles as Guided Slowdown Overshadows Revenue Beat
• Negative Sentiment: After a strong August rally, elevated valuation and profit-taking amplified the reaction to the merely in-line EPS result. A finance leadership transition and broader executive changes add an additional near-term uncertainty. UiPath Rating Downgrade

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.