Avalon Advisors Upped Unilever Plc (New)Sponsored Ad (UL) Position By $651,760; Utah Medical Products (UTMD) Sellers Decreased By 1.01% Their Shorts

August 25, 2017 - By Michael Collier

Avalon Advisors Llc increased Unilever Plc (New)Sponsored Ad (UL) stake by 70.15% reported in 2016Q4 SEC filing. Avalon Advisors Llc acquired 16,294 shares as Unilever Plc (New)Sponsored Ad (UL)’s stock rose 11.00%. The Avalon Advisors Llc holds 39,522 shares with $1.61 million value, up from 23,228 last quarter. Unilever Plc (New)Sponsored Ad now has $175.49 billion valuation. The stock rose 0.68% or $0.39 reaching $58.05 per share. About 221,897 shares traded. Unilever plc (ADR) (NYSE:UL) has risen 20.68% since August 25, 2016 and is uptrending. It has outperformed by 3.98% the S&P500.

Utah Medical Products Incorporated (NASDAQ:UTMD) had a decrease of 1.01% in short interest. UTMD’s SI was 29,500 shares in August as released by FINRA. Its down 1.01% from 29,800 shares previously. With 13,100 avg volume, 2 days are for Utah Medical Products Incorporated (NASDAQ:UTMD)’s short sellers to cover UTMD’s short positions. The SI to Utah Medical Products Incorporated’s float is 0.87%. It is 0.00% or $0 reaching $70.35 per share. It is down 0.94% since August 25, 2016 and is downtrending. It has underperformed by 17.64% the S&P500.

Among 11 analysts covering Unilever (NYSE:UL), 4 have Buy rating, 2 Sell and 5 Hold. Therefore 36% are positive. Unilever had 14 analyst reports since July 24, 2015 according to SRatingsIntel. The company was downgraded on Friday, July 22 by RBC Capital Markets. The stock has “Overweight” rating by JP Morgan on Tuesday, January 12. The stock of Unilever plc (ADR) (NYSE:UL) has “Equal-Weight” rating given on Monday, January 23 by Barclays Capital. RBC Capital Markets downgraded the shares of UL in report on Thursday, August 10 to “Sell” rating. On Friday, March 17 the stock rating was initiated by Macquarie Research with “Outperform”. The stock has “Buy” rating by Canaccord Genuity on Friday, July 24. The stock has “Neutral” rating by Bank of America on Monday, February 27. ABN Amro downgraded the stock to “Sell” rating in Monday, April 3 report. The rating was upgraded by Jefferies to “Buy” on Tuesday, December 13. The firm has “Hold” rating by Liberum Capital given on Monday, March 27.

Avalon Advisors Llc decreased Johnson Ctls Intl Plc Shs stake by 9,748 shares to 118,707 valued at $4.89M in 2016Q4. It also reduced Bristol (NYSE:BMY) stake by 11,864 shares and now owns 114,531 shares. Chubb Limited was reduced too.