Universal Technical Institute remains a soft ‘buy' as growth initiatives drive revenue and student enrollment expansion. UTI's aggressive campus and program launches, especially in healthcare, underpin double-digit revenue growth despite short-term profit compression. Management projects FY2026 revenue of $905–$915M and EBITDA of $156M, with targets for $1.2B revenue and $270M EBITDA by 2029.
Investors need to pay close attention to UHS stock based on the movements in the options market lately.
Bill Ackman's Pershing Square has closed the book on one of its most ambitious activist campaigns.
Universal Music Group (AEX:UMG) shares fell on Thursday after Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management sold its remaining holding in the music company, bringing an end to a five-year investment. According to media reports, Pershing Square sold approximately 80.6 million UMG shares through a private placement at €17.66 per share, representing roughly an 8% discount to Wednesday's closing price.
Universal Music shares fell on Thursday after billionaire investor Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management sold its remaining stake in the world's largest music company, ending a five-year investment that is expected to generate profit of at least $600 million. The disposal involved approximately 80.6 million Universal Music shares valued at more than $1.5 billion, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Universal Music Group shares deepened their year-to-date loss after Pershing Square exited the world's biggest music company five years after its initial investment.
The hedge-fund firm first invested in the company in 2021 and has failed to clinch two proposed deals.
This is a developing story.
Universal's biggest shareholder is opposed to deal, saying it undervalued the world's largest music company.
Universal Music Group's board declined an unsolicited takeover proposal from Bill Ackman's Pershing Square on Friday.
Universal Corporation (UVV) Q4 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
Universal NYSE: UVV said its fiscal 2026 results were pressured by a non-cash goodwill impairment in its ingredients business and higher inventory write-downs tied mainly to non-wrapper dark air-cured tobacco, even as management described the company's core flue-cured and burley tobacco operations as solid.