UiPath (NYSE:PATH) Trading Down 2.3% – Here’s What Happened

Shares of UiPath, Inc. (NYSE:PATH) traded down 2.3% on Friday . The company traded as low as $14.76 and last traded at $14.8070. 22,773,102 shares were traded during mid-day trading, a decline of 17% from the average session volume of 27,347,496 shares. The stock had previously closed at $15.15.

Key Stories Impacting UiPath

Here are the key news stories impacting UiPath this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Analyst note: Zacks highlights UiPath’s strategic shift toward agentic AI and argues the platform-led approach turns orchestration into operating leverage, which could deepen customer adoption and lift margins over time. UiPath’s Platform-Led Operating Leverage in the Age of Agentic AI
• Positive Sentiment: Broker perspective: Barclays raised its PATH price target to $18 (from $16) and reiterated a constructive view tied to stable IT spending, signaling supportive analyst sentiment even though the rating remained neutral. Barclays Is Bullish on UiPath, Inc. (PATH) Amid Stable IT Spending Outlook
• Positive Sentiment: Media/TV endorsement: Jim Cramer and other commentators are publicly bullish on UiPath’s longer‑term upside, which can support demand from retail and momentum buyers over time. Jim Cramer on UiPath
• Positive Sentiment: Macro/catalyst view: Coverage noting “catalysts reframing the automation narrative” points to accelerating AI-driven use cases and integration that could re-rate growth expectations if adoption and monetization accelerate. What Catalysts Are Reframing The UiPath (PATH) Automation Narrative?
• Neutral Sentiment: Investor interest: Zacks flags PATH as a trending/watched stock, which can increase volatility from short‑term flows even absent new fundamental news. Is Trending Stock UiPath, Inc. (PATH) a Buy Now?
• Neutral Sentiment: Valuation signals mixed: Recent pieces point to mixed P/E and DCF signals after recent share weakness — investors are parsing whether current multiples fairly price in AI upside versus remaining execution/earnings risk. UiPath (PATH) Valuation Check After Recent Share Price Weakness And Mixed P/E And DCF Signals
• Neutral Sentiment: Peer/sector context: Comparison pieces (eg. vs. Rapid7) and broader “top tech picks” coverage show analysts are weighing UiPath against other growth/mid‑cap tech names for allocation decisions. Contrasting Rapid7 (NASDAQ:RPD) and UiPath (NYSE:PATH)
• Negative Sentiment: Near-term selling pressure: A Zacks note flagged a recent daily drop in PATH despite broader market gains, reflecting short‑term profit‑taking and sensitivity to mixed signals on guidance/valuation that can push the stock lower even with positive long‑term narratives. UiPath (PATH) Stock Drops Despite Market Gains

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

PATH has been the topic of several research reports. Morgan Stanley increased their price target on shares of UiPath from $15.00 to $19.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a report on Tuesday, December 9th. Canaccord Genuity Group raised their target price on shares of UiPath from $15.00 to $19.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, December 4th. Wells Fargo & Company upped their price target on shares of UiPath from $12.00 to $14.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Thursday, December 4th. DA Davidson increased their price target on UiPath from $12.00 to $15.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Thursday, December 4th. Finally, Weiss Ratings reiterated a “hold (c)” rating on shares of UiPath in a research note on Monday, December 29th. One analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, one has issued a Buy rating, fourteen have issued a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, UiPath has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $16.00.

UiPath Stock Performance

The firm has a market capitalization of $7.92 billion, a PE ratio of 35.25, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.16 and a beta of 1.08. The firm’s 50 day moving average price is $15.75 and its 200-day moving average price is $13.94.

UiPath (NYSE:PATH) last announced its earnings results 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. UiPath had a return on equity of 3.73% and a net margin of 14.79%.The business had revenue of $411.11 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $392.46 million. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.11 EPS. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 15.9% on a year-over-year basis. On average, equities research analysts expect that UiPath, Inc. will post -0.17 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Activity

In other news, CEO Daniel Dines sold 45,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, January 14th. The shares were sold at an average price of $15.68, for a total transaction of $705,600.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer owned 28,028,585 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $439,488,212.80. The trade was a 0.16% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. Also, CFO Ashim Gupta sold 67,468 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated 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 transaction, the chief financial officer owned 557,028 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $8,968,150.80. This trade represents a 10.80% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. In the last quarter, insiders sold 1,085,048 shares of company stock worth $18,132,194. Company insiders own 23.19% of the company’s stock.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On UiPath

Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Farther Finance Advisors LLC increased its position in shares of UiPath by 657.5% during the fourth quarter. Farther Finance Advisors LLC now owns 15,870 shares of the company’s stock worth $260,000 after purchasing an additional 13,775 shares in the last quarter. State of Alaska Department of Revenue acquired a new stake in UiPath during the 4th quarter worth $686,000. Stanley Laman Group Ltd. purchased a new stake in shares of UiPath during the fourth quarter worth $357,000. Burney Co. acquired a new stake in shares of UiPath in the fourth quarter valued at about $2,285,000. Finally, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group Inc. raised its position in shares of UiPath by 1.9% in the fourth quarter. Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group Inc. now owns 37,871 shares of the company’s stock valued at $621,000 after buying an additional 720 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 62.50% of the company’s stock.

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.