UiPath (NYSE:PATH) Shares Down 3.8% After Insider Selling

Shares of UiPath, Inc. (NYSE:PATH) were down 3.8% during trading on Wednesday after an insider sold shares in the company. The stock traded as low as $15.06 and last traded at $15.3650. Approximately 29,758,370 shares traded hands during mid-day trading, an increase of 6% from the average daily volume of 28,088,309 shares. The stock had previously closed at $15.97.

Specifically, CEO Daniel Dines sold 45,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, January 14th. The stock was sold at an average price of $15.68, for a total transaction of $705,600.00. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer directly owned 28,073,585 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $440,193,812.80. This represents a 0.16% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. Also, CEO Daniel Dines sold 45,000 shares of UiPath stock in a transaction on Monday, January 12th. The shares were sold at an average price of $16.61, for a total transaction of $747,450.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer directly owned 28,118,585 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $467,049,696.85. The trade was a 0.16% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. In other UiPath news, CEO Daniel Dines sold 45,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Friday, January 9th. The shares were sold at an average price of $17.17, for a total transaction of $772,650.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer owned 28,208,585 shares in the company, valued at approximately $484,341,404.45. The trade was a 0.16% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of research analysts have recently issued reports on the stock. BMO Capital Markets lifted their price objective on shares of UiPath from $13.00 to $17.00 and gave the company a “market perform” rating in a report on Thursday, December 4th. Truist Financial set a $17.00 price target on shares of UiPath in a research report on Thursday, December 4th. Evercore ISI boosted their price objective on UiPath from $15.00 to $17.00 and gave the stock an “in-line” rating in a report on Thursday, December 4th. Weiss Ratings restated a “hold (c)” rating on shares of UiPath in a report on Monday, December 29th. Finally, Cowen reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of UiPath in a research report on Thursday, December 4th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, one has given a Buy rating, fourteen have given a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $16.00.

More UiPath News

Here are the key news stories impacting UiPath this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Product recognition — UiPath’s Screen Agent (powered by Claude Opus 4.5) earned a No.1 ranking on an OSWorld-verified benchmark, reinforcing technical differentiation in agentic automation and supporting long-term revenue opportunity. Article Title
• Positive Sentiment: Bullish research and momentum pieces highlight re-accelerating growth, a path to GAAP profitability, and improving market positioning in AI-driven RPA — narratives that can attract momentum and growth-focused buyers. Article Title
• Positive Sentiment: Elevated options activity — unusually large call buying (≈134k calls, ~54% above daily average) signals speculative/hedge bullish interest that can amplify intraday upside volatility and short-term demand for shares.
• Neutral Sentiment: Market positioning — UiPath is repeatedly featured in lists of AI/cross-cloud winners and has rising relative strength/momentum ratings, which supports investor attention but doesn’t guarantee near-term price direction. Article Title
• Neutral Sentiment: Company communications — recent presentation transcript from the Needham Growth Conference provides more visibility into strategy and execution (useful for investors but not an immediate catalyst). Article Title
• Neutral Sentiment: Analyst/consensus backdrop — market consensus remains a “Hold” with a ~$16 target; some price-target moves and mixed ratings (buys and holds) mean upside is debated among pros.
• Negative Sentiment: Insider selling — CEO Daniel Dines has sold multiple 45,000-share blocks recently (including Jan. 12 and Jan. 14 filings), representing small percentage reductions but repeated sales that can be perceived as profit‑taking and weigh on investor sentiment. SEC Filing

UiPath Price Performance

The company has a market capitalization of $8.22 billion, a P/E ratio of 36.58, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 5.06 and a beta of 1.08. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $15.70 and a 200-day moving average price of $13.88.

UiPath (NYSE:PATH) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, December 3rd. The company reported $0.16 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.14 by $0.02. The business had revenue of $411.11 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $392.46 million. UiPath had a return on equity of 3.73% and a net margin of 14.79%.The business’s revenue was up 15.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $0.11 earnings per share. On average, research analysts forecast that UiPath, Inc. will post -0.17 EPS for the current year.

Institutional Trading of UiPath

Large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Hudson Bay Capital Management LP purchased a new stake in shares of UiPath during the 2nd quarter worth approximately $102,559,000. Norges Bank bought a new position in UiPath during the second quarter valued at $68,451,000. AQR Capital Management LLC increased its position 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 buying an additional 4,926,341 shares during the last quarter. TFG Asset Management GP Ltd raised its stake in shares of UiPath by 53.3% in the second quarter. TFG Asset Management GP Ltd now owns 13,722,244 shares of the company’s stock valued at $175,645,000 after buying an additional 4,772,244 shares during the period. Finally, Nomura Holdings Inc. purchased a new position in shares of UiPath during the 2nd quarter valued at $59,561,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 62.50% of the company’s stock.

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.