UiPath (NYSE:PATH) Price Target Lowered to $12.00 at Truist Financial

UiPath (NYSE:PATH) had its price objective lowered by Truist Financial from $17.00 to $12.00 in a report published on Thursday,Benzinga reports. Truist Financial currently has a hold rating on the stock.

A number of other brokerages have also issued reports on PATH. Wall Street Zen lowered UiPath from a “strong-buy” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Sunday, February 8th. Zacks Research cut shares of UiPath from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Friday, February 6th. Canaccord Genuity Group cut their price target on UiPath from $19.00 to $15.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Thursday. Weiss Ratings restated a “hold (c)” rating on shares of UiPath in a research report on Monday, December 29th. Finally, TD Cowen reissued a “hold” rating on shares of UiPath in a research report on Thursday, December 4th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, fifteen have issued a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $14.27.

UiPath Trading Down 7.9%

PATH stock opened at $11.40 on Thursday. The firm has a market cap of $6.10 billion, a PE ratio of 21.92, a P/E/G ratio of 1.69 and a beta of 1.09. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $13.05 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $13.98. UiPath has a 1-year low of $9.38 and a 1-year high of $19.84.

UiPath (NYSE:PATH) last released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, March 11th. The company reported $0.30 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.25 by $0.05. The business had revenue of $481.11 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $464.81 million. UiPath had a return on equity of 5.95% and a net margin of 17.53%.UiPath’s revenue for the quarter was up 13.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $0.26 EPS. On average, analysts forecast that UiPath will post -0.17 earnings per share for the current year.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, CFO Ashim Gupta sold 67,468 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Monday, January 5th. The stock was sold at an average price of $16.10, for a total transaction of $1,086,234.80. Following the sale, the chief financial officer owned 557,028 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $8,968,150.80. This trade represents a 10.80% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. Also, CEO Daniel Dines sold 45,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, January 26th. The stock was sold at an average price of $15.01, for a total value of $675,450.00. Following the sale, the chief executive officer owned 27,893,585 shares in the company, valued at approximately $418,682,710.85. This trade represents a 0.16% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Over the last 90 days, insiders sold 787,468 shares of company stock worth $12,862,285. 23.19% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Institutional Trading of UiPath

A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the stock. Hudson Bay Capital Management LP acquired a new stake in shares of UiPath in the second quarter valued at about $102,559,000. Norges Bank acquired a new position in shares of UiPath during the 4th quarter valued at $120,176,000. State Street Corp boosted its position in shares of UiPath by 66.4% during the 4th quarter. State Street Corp now owns 13,004,786 shares of the company’s stock worth $213,148,000 after purchasing an additional 5,189,438 shares in the last quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC boosted its holdings in UiPath by 76.0% in the second quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC now owns 11,407,569 shares of the company’s stock worth $145,732,000 after acquiring an additional 4,926,341 shares in the last quarter. Finally, TFG Asset Management GP Ltd grew its position in UiPath by 53.3% in the 2nd quarter. TFG Asset Management GP Ltd now owns 13,722,244 shares of the company’s stock valued at $175,645,000 after purchasing an additional 4,772,244 shares during the period. 62.50% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Key Stories Impacting UiPath

Here are the key news stories impacting UiPath this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Q4 beat and first full‑year GAAP profitability — Revenue $481.1M (+13% YoY) and EPS $0.30 beat consensus; ARR and margins improved, and management highlighted accelerating enterprise AI adoption. Q4 Results Release
• Positive Sentiment: Share‑repurchase program and cash generation — Company announced a new $500M buyback and reported strong free cash flow (management cited robust FCF conversion), which supports capital returns and EPS upside. Buyback & Analysis
• Positive Sentiment: Product/partner catalysts — Continued push into agentic AI (platform shift), plus an expanded strategic alliance with Deloitte to launch an Agentic ERP offering, which could accelerate enterprise adoption and upsells. Deloitte Alliance
• Neutral Sentiment: Guidance is mixed — Q1 revenue guide was roughly in line (midpoint slightly above Street) but FY‑27 revenue guidance implies materially slower growth (~10% top‑line growth), leaving investors uncertain on near‑term cadence. Guidance Coverage
• Neutral Sentiment: Options and technical activity — Unusual call buying and heavy intraday volume suggest active positioning around the print; some commentators view the pullback as a potential buying opportunity if adoption accelerates. Market Activity
• Negative Sentiment: Market reaction: shares declined after hours and into the session as the slower full‑year growth outlook offset the beat and first full‑year profit, prompting sellers. Market Reaction
• Negative Sentiment: Analyst price‑target trims and cautious notes — Multiple firms trimmed targets/ratings (Mizuho, TD Cowen, Truist, Wells Fargo, DA Davidson and others), increasing near‑term downside risk from sentiment and forcing re‑rating debates. Analyst Coverage
• Negative Sentiment: Short‑term risk: decelerating revenue growth expectations — Street commentary notes that agentic‑AI upside is real but may take quarters to translate into faster ARR growth and higher valuations, keeping pressure on multiple expansion near term. Barron’s Take

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.