Stock Traders Buy High Volume of Call Options on UiPath (NYSE:PATH)

UiPath, Inc. (NYSE:PATH) saw unusually large options trading on Thursday. Stock investors bought 110,442 call options on the company. This represents an increase of 78% compared to the typical volume of 62,173 call options.

UiPath News Summary

Here are the key news stories impacting UiPath this week:

• Positive Sentiment: UiPath reported first-quarter fiscal 2027 results that topped revenue expectations, with sales rising 17.3% year over year to $418.4 million and adjusted EPS matching estimates at $0.15. Management also said ARR increased 12% to $1.901 billion, signaling continued customer adoption of its automation and agentic AI products. UiPath Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2027 Financial Results
• Positive Sentiment: The company raised its outlook, guiding second-quarter revenue to $395 million-$400 million and full-year FY2027 revenue to about $1.776 billion-$1.781 billion, while lifting non-GAAP operating income guidance to roughly $430 million. That improved profitability view is likely a key driver of investor optimism. Seeking Alpha revenue and operating income outlook
• Positive Sentiment: Recent reports also noted first-time GAAP profitability and stronger AI-related demand, including growth in enterprise expansion deals and agentic automation use cases. That helps reinforce the view that UiPath is moving toward more durable earnings power. UiPath Inc (PATH) Q1 2027 Earnings Call Highlights

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

PATH has been the subject of a number of research analyst reports. William Blair reiterated a “hold” rating on shares of UiPath in a report on Thursday, March 12th. 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, March 12th. DA Davidson cut their price target on UiPath from $13.00 to $12.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a report on Friday. Zacks Research lowered UiPath from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Friday, February 6th. Finally, Mizuho cut their price target on UiPath from $15.00 to $12.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a report on Thursday, March 12th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, fourteen have issued a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $14.00.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A number of large investors have recently modified their holdings of PATH. Royal Bank of Canada raised its stake in shares of UiPath by 8.4% in the first quarter. Royal Bank of Canada now owns 140,774 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,450,000 after purchasing an additional 10,872 shares in the last quarter. Woodline Partners LP grew its position in UiPath by 69.6% in the first quarter. Woodline Partners LP now owns 22,566 shares of the company’s stock valued at $232,000 after acquiring an additional 9,257 shares during the period. UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC grew its position in UiPath by 5.4% in the first quarter. UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC now owns 1,477,730 shares of the company’s stock valued at $15,221,000 after acquiring an additional 75,737 shares during the period. Sivia Capital Partners LLC bought a new stake in UiPath in the second quarter valued at $169,000. Finally, Prudential Financial Inc. grew its position in UiPath by 90.1% in the second quarter. Prudential Financial Inc. now owns 34,029 shares of the company’s stock valued at $436,000 after acquiring an additional 16,125 shares during the period. 62.50% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

UiPath Trading Up 0.9%

Shares of NYSE PATH opened at $11.69 on Friday. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $10.73 and a 200 day simple moving average of $12.91. The firm has a market capitalization of $6.12 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.48, a PEG ratio of 1.90 and a beta of 0.91. UiPath has a one year low of $9.20 and a one year high of $19.84.

UiPath (NYSE:PATH) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, May 28th. The company reported $0.15 EPS for the quarter, meeting analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.15. The business had revenue of $418.38 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $397.54 million. UiPath had a return on equity of 7.94% and a net margin of 19.58%.UiPath’s revenue was up 17.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.11 earnings per share. On average, research analysts anticipate that UiPath will post 0.32 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

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.