Citigroup Begins Coverage on UiPath (NYSE:PATH)

Equities researchers at Citigroup began coverage on shares of UiPath (NYSE:PATH) in a note issued to investors on Tuesday, Marketbeat Ratings reports. The brokerage set a “buy” rating and a $23.00 price target on the stock. Citigroup’s target price indicates a potential upside of 69.04% from the company’s previous close.

Several other research firms also recently weighed in on PATH. Wells Fargo & Company lifted their target price on shares of UiPath from $13.00 to $15.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Friday, September 4th. Barclays increased their price objective on UiPath from $14.00 to $17.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a report on Friday, September 4th. Royal Bank Of Canada lifted their price objective on shares of UiPath from $15.00 to $17.00 and gave the company a “sector perform” rating in a research note on Friday, September 4th. New Street Research set a $13.00 price target on shares of UiPath in a research report on Monday, June 1st. Finally, Weiss Ratings reissued a “hold (c-)” rating on shares of UiPath in a research report on Friday, July 10th. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, sixteen have assigned 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 $16.75.

UiPath Trading Down 2.9%

PATH opened at $13.61 on Tuesday. The business’s 50 day moving average is $14.11 and its 200-day moving average is $12.01. The stock has a market cap of $7.05 billion, a PE ratio of 20.31, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.55 and a beta of 1.02. UiPath has a twelve month low of $9.20 and a twelve month high of $19.84.

UiPath (NYSE:PATH) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, September 3rd. The company reported $0.15 EPS for the quarter, meeting the consensus estimate of $0.15. UiPath had a return on equity of 9.70% and a net margin of 21.03%.The firm had revenue of $410.26 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $397.77 million. During the same period last year, the firm earned $0.15 EPS. The firm’s revenue was up 13.3% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, analysts forecast that UiPath will post 0.42 EPS for the current year.

Insider Activity

In other UiPath news, CEO Daniel Dines sold 1,402,347 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, August 19th. The shares were sold at an average price of $16.07, for a total value of $22,535,716.29. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer directly owned 26,491,238 shares in the company, valued at $425,714,194.66. The trade was a 5.03% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. 22.44% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On UiPath

A number of large investors have recently modified their holdings of PATH. Sequoia Financial Advisors LLC increased its stake in shares of UiPath by 59.4% in the 2nd quarter. Sequoia Financial Advisors LLC now owns 38,545 shares of the company’s stock valued at $419,000 after buying an additional 14,361 shares during the period. Tidal Investments LLC grew its position in shares of UiPath by 24.4% during the 2nd quarter. Tidal Investments LLC now owns 794,084 shares of the company’s stock worth $8,632,000 after buying an additional 155,521 shares during the period. Engineers Gate Manager LP raised its stake in shares of UiPath by 33.1% during the second quarter. Engineers Gate Manager LP now owns 586,093 shares of the company’s stock worth $6,371,000 after buying an additional 145,749 shares during the last quarter. Integrated Wealth Concepts LLC acquired a new position in UiPath in the second quarter valued at approximately $115,000. Finally, NewEdge Advisors LLC boosted its stake in UiPath by 19.9% in the second quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC now owns 15,170 shares of the company’s stock valued at $165,000 after acquiring an additional 2,514 shares during the last quarter. 62.50% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

More UiPath News

Here are the key news stories impacting UiPath this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Citigroup upgraded UiPath to “strong buy,” following its earlier Buy initiation and maintaining a $23 price target. The upgrade suggests Citi views the post-earnings selloff as an attractive entry point and sees substantial upside from current levels. Zacks article
• Positive Sentiment: UiPath’s fiscal second-quarter earnings call highlighted stronger demand for AI-powered deals, enterprise customer consolidation and broader automation deployments. These trends could support larger contracts and improve long-term platform adoption. UiPath Q2 2027 earnings call transcript
• Positive Sentiment: A new UiPath survey identified orchestration as a key requirement for moving agentic AI projects beyond pilot programs, reinforcing the company’s positioning in enterprise AI automation. UiPath agentic AI survey
• Neutral Sentiment: UiPath also announced an integration from Synthesized for automated test-data provisioning, which may broaden its ecosystem but is unlikely to materially affect near-term results. Synthesized UiPath integration
• Negative Sentiment: The main pressure remains weaker-than-expected fiscal third-quarter revenue guidance. The outlook overshadowed a second-quarter revenue beat, stronger profitability and raised annual guidance, triggering a sharp post-earnings decline. Why UiPath stock is trading lower
• Negative Sentiment: UiPath has fallen roughly 25% from its late-August high, and historical analysis suggests declines of this magnitude have often continued. That technical caution may limit the impact of Citi’s bullish upgrade in the near term. Trefis UiPath stock analysis

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.