Consumer Staples / TobaccoUpdated 2026-05-10 22:07 UTC

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Universal Corporation has a live ticker hub with the latest available market, valuation, profitability, growth, ownership, and risk indicators.

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Fair value pending

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Market cap

1.3B

NYSE

Market data

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E12.2

P25 11.3P50 15.2P75 20.1

Trailing P/E15.8

P25 12.9P50 17.8P75 28.8

ROE7

P25 -17.2P50 6.8P75 17.2

ROIC6.1

P25 -6.6P50 6.3P75 13.6

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Indicator catalog

All UVV market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

Available fields

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Currency

USD

Showing 267 of 267 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0000102037
Company name	Universal Corporation
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	913456109
Employees	11,400
Employees Change	600%
Employees Change Percent	5.56
Enterprise value	$2.4B
Exchange	NYSE
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
Industry	Tobacco
Isin	US9134561094
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$1.3B
Market cap category	Small-Cap
Price	$53.7
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	255,395.26x
Sector	Consumer Staples
Sic	5150
Symbol	UVV
Website	https://www.universalcorp.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	6.37%
EV Earnings	27.78x
EV Sales Forward	0.8x
EV/EBIT	10.39x
EV/EBITDA	8.36x
EV/FCF	44.95x
EV/Sales	0.81x
FCF yield	3.94%
Forward P/E	12.23x
P/B ratio	0.9x
P/E ratio	15.84x
P/S ratio	0.46x
PE Ratio10 Y	17.64x
PE Ratio3 Y	11.8x
PE Ratio5 Y	12.98x
PEG ratio	3.06x
PS Forward	0.45x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	7.83%
EBITDA Margin	9.73%
FCF margin	1.81%
Gross margin	18.7%
Gross Profit	$544.5M
Gross Profit Growth	-8.54%
Gross Profit Growth Q	-17.56%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	5.74%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	6.95%
Net Income	$85.3M
Net Income Growth	-32.35%
Net Income Growth Q	-44.25%
Net Income Growth Years	0%
Net Income Growth3 Y	-3.92%
Net Income Growth5 Y	6.03%
Pretax Margin	5.27%
Profit Margin	2.93%
Profit Per Employee	$7,478
Profitable Years	31
ROA	4.7
Roa5y	4.74
ROCE	10.06
ROE	6.97
Roe5y	8.17
ROIC	6.05
Roic5y	7.37

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	5.18%
Cagr15y	6.83%
Cagr1y	-3.3%
Cagr20y	6.75%
Cagr3y	6.22%
Cagr5y	4.36%
Div CAGR10	4.56%
Div CAGR3	1.25%
Div CAGR5	1.27%
EPS Growth	-32.43
EPS Growth Q	-44.3
EPS Growth Years	0
EPS Growth3 Y	-4.14
EPS Growth5 Y	5.71
FCF Growth	-21.56%
FCF Growth Q	-52.34%
FCF Growth5 Y	-21.35%
OCF Growth	-28.24%
OCF Growth Q	-46.99%
OCF Growth10 Y	-8.25%
OCF Growth5 Y	-14.66%
Revenue Growth	-3.46x
Revenue Growth Q	-8.1x
Revenue Growth Years	5x
Revenue Growth3 Y	4.89x
Revenue Growth5 Y	7.82x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$0.96
Assets	$3B
Cash	$85.2M
Current Assets	$2.2B
Current Liabilities	$751.4M
Debt	$1.1B
Debt EBITDA	$3.6
Debt Equity	$0.73
Debt FCF	$21.16
Equity	$1.5B
Interest Coverage	3.09
Liabilities	$1.5B
Long Term Assets	$834.1M
Long Term Liabilities	$740.9M
Net Cash	$-1B
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-76.94
Net Debt EBITDA	$3.63
Net Debt Equity	$0.68
Net Debt FCF	$19.54
Tangible Book Value	$1.2B
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$48.89
WACC	6.15

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	2.91
Inventory Turnover	1.79
Net Working Capital	$1.8B
Quick ratio	0.96
Working Capital	$1.4B
Working Capital Turnover	$2.06

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	-0.21%
Dividend Growth	1.23%
Dividend Growth Years	56%
Dividend per share	$3.28
Dividend Years	56
Dividend Yield	6.11%
Ex Div Date	2026-04-15
Last Dividend	$0.82
Payout Frequency	Quarterly
Payout Ratio	96.72%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
10Y total return	65.71%
1Y total return	-3.29%
200-day SMA	53.73
3Y total return	19.85%
50-day SMA	52.81
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50under200
5Y total return	23.79%
All Time High	83.35
All Time High Change	-35.57%
All Time High Date	2017-02-08
All Time Low	1.36
All Time Low Change	3,851.43%
All Time Low Date	1970-05-26
ATR	0.98
Beta	0.59
Beta1y	0.04
Beta2y	0.25
Ch YTD	1.8
High	54.23
High52	67.33
High52 Date	2025-05-30
High52ch	-20.24%
Low	53.65
Low52	49.96
Low52 Date	2025-10-31
Low52ch	7.49%
Ma50ch	1.68%
Price vs 200-day SMA	-0.06%
RSI	53.7
RSI Monthly	49.33
RSI Weekly	49.75
Sharpe ratio	-0.17x
Sortino ratio	-0.01
Total Return	5.9%
Tr YTD	5
Tr15y	169.23%
Tr1m	4.31%
Tr1w	-1.01%
Tr3m	-5.65%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Earnings EPS Estimate	$1.08
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	35
Earnings Revenue Estimate	728,200,000x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	3.69x
Operating Income	$228M
Operating Income Growth	-15.18
Operating Income Growth Q	-20.58
Operating Income Growth3 Y	7.06
Operating Income Growth5 Y	8.42
Operating margin	7.83

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	24,568,488%
Float Percent	98.58%
Net Borrowing	-78,349,000
Shares Insiders	1.4%
Shares Institutions	80.87%
Shares Out	24,923,496
Shares Qo Q	0.04%
Shares Yo Y	0.21%
Short Float	6.51%
Short Ratio	7.79
Short Shares	6.42

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$41.8M
Average Volume	194,777.75x
Bv Per Share	59.5
CAPEX	$-48M
Ch10y	-4.06
Ch15y	26.89
Ch1m	2.68
Ch1w	-1.01
Ch1y	-8.97
Ch20y	41.43
Ch3m	-7.13
Ch3y	-0.56
Ch5y	-8.61
Ch6m	0.71
Change	-0.11%
Change From Open	-0.43
Close	53.76
Days Gap	0.32
Depreciation Amortization	55,425,000
Dollar Volume	5,973,856.5
Earnings Date	2026-05-28
Earnings Time	amc
EBIT	$228M
EBITDA	$283.4M
EPS	$3.39
F Score	5
FCF	$52.7M
FCF EV Yield	2.22x
FCF Per Share	$2.11
Financing CF	-191,804,000
Fiscal Year End	March
Founded	1,886
Goodwill	213,798,000
Graham Number	67.37897
Graham Upside	25.47
Income Tax	$48.2M
Investing CF	-39,670,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-02-09
Last Report Date	2025-12-31
Last Split Date	1992-01-02
Last Split Type	Forward
Last10k Filing Date	2025-05-30
Lynch Fair Value	$20.45
Lynch Upside	-61.92
Ma150	53.35
Ma150ch	0.66%
Ma20	53.09
Ma20ch	1.16%
Net CF	-129,881,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-05-28
Open	53.93
Optionable	Yes
P FCF Ratio	25.4
P OCF Ratio	13.29
Payment Date	2026-05-04
Position In Range	8.62
Post Close	53.7
Postmarket Change Percent	-0.09
Postmarket Price	$53.65
Ppne	411,574,000
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$4.72
Ptbv Ratio	1.1
Relative Volume	0.57x
Revenue	2,911,506,000x
SBC By Revenue	0.37x
Share Based Comp	10,912,000
Tax By Revenue	1.66x
Tax Rate	31.46%
Tr20y	269.37%
Tr6m	3.87%
Us State	Virginia
Volume	111,245
Z Score	2.89

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Income

UVV dividend yield, growth & safety

Yield, payout sustainability, and the multi-year growth streak.

Dividend yield

+6.1%

$3.28 annual per share

Payout ratio

+96.7%

Share of earnings returned as dividends. Below 60% is generally sustainable.

5Y dividend CAGR

+1.3%

56 consecutive years of growth

Total shareholder yield

+5.9%

Next ex-dividend date: 2026-04-15

Performance

UVV stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns UVV?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+80.9%

Float: +98.6% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+1.4%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

UVV momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

53.7

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

-0.1%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

0.59

Less volatile than the market

Sharpe ratio

-0.17

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

UVV vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
COST	Costco Wholesale Corporation	447.6B	52.5x	1.6x	37.8%	+9.9%	+0.7%	Verkaufen
KO	The Coca-Cola Company	337.4B	24.7x	6.8x	19.6%	+8.1%	+11.5%	Starker Kauf
MO	Altria Group Inc.	113.8B	14.2x	5.6x	66.4%	-0.3%	+19.7%	Halten

Questions

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