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Universal Corporation Reports Nine Month and Third Quarter 2026 Results
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Universal Corporation Appoints Steven S. Diel as Chief Financial Officer
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Universal Corporation Announces Quarterly Dividend
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Universal Corporation Announces Conference Call
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Universal Corporation Appoints Anubhav Mittal as Chief Financial Officer
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Universal Corporation Releases FY2025 Sustainability Report
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Universal Corporation to Participate in the ICR Conference 2026
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Universal Corp is an international leaf tobacco supplier. The company procures leaf tobacco from farmers, processes it, and sells it to companies that manufacture consumer tobacco products. Universal does not manufacture or sell any consumer products itself. The company's segments include Tobacco Operations and Ingredients Operations. It generates maximum revenue from the Tobacco Operations segment. Geographically, it derives a majority of revenue from the United States. The company operates in the USA, Belgium, China, Egypt, Philippines, Germany, and Other Countries with majority of revenue from USA.
Universal trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol UVV.
As of March 2, 2026, UVV stock price declined to $53.46 with 236,402 million shares trading.
UVV has a beta of 0.18, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. UVV has a correlation of 0.02 to the broad based SPY ETF.
UVV has a market cap of $1.33 billion. This is considered a Small Cap stock.
Last quarter Universal reported $861 million in Revenue and $1.35 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-66 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.57.
In the last 3 years, UVV traded as high as $67.80 and as low as $44.40.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that UVV belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, VTI, IWM, VB, PEY.
UVV has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +7.1% while the SPY ETF gained +18.6%. However, in the short term, UVV had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +3.2% vs +1.3% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, UVV shares have been beat by the market, returning 0.0% compared to an SPY return of +0.7%.
UVV support price is $53.08 and resistance is $54.38 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that UVV shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
