UL Unilever PLC
Unilever PLC (UL) trend channel, buy level and 3-month target on Trade The Path. Sector: Consumer Defensive. Listed on AMEX. Levels below are fitted to this ticker's own swing highs and lows (TheilβSen, log-price), then projected 3 months. If this ticker has no settled sample yet, treat the numbers as a geometric read, not a track record. Information only, not financial advice.
In the buy zone, going sideways this year inside a rising 0.5589943868277524-year channel
Price is sitting on the lower trend line β the level that has repeatedly held.
The next few months are read from the last 7 months, the stretch whose swings the lines actually follow, because the last 12 months alone do not contain enough turns to fit reliably (45% against 74%). The last 12 months stay as context: going sideways, β3% a year. The target of US$66.87 sits above the nearest ceiling (US$65.62, from the last 12 months), so reaching it means breaking a line this stock has repeatedly turned at. What would overturn this: a close below US$62.67 β the floor of the channel being read β after which the trend, not the entry, is what was wrong.
- 7 months read from
- US$62.67 β US$66.66 Rising channel, +22% a year
- Position in that channel
- -6% below the floor of it β 0% is the floor, 100% the ceiling
What broke this trend
- The fall
- -25% from US$72.7324 Feb 2026 β 2 Apr 2026
- Whose problem it was
- This company0 of 2 Household & Personal Products peers fell with it
- Does it resolve?
- Temporary falls like it have resolved on the record
- Regained so far
- 44%of what it lost
- What the record says
- 89% of 1034 comparable falls came back, typically in 65 days measured across every stock we hold history for, its peer group being too small
The trend broke in February 2026: price fell 25% from 72.73 to 54.49 by April 2026, and has regained 44% of that fall since. Its peers did not fall with it, so this was about the company rather than its sector. Falls like it have resolved: falls of about 25% here have come back to the old high 89% of the time (1034 comparable falls), typically in 65 days. On that record the fall is treated as temporary, and the trend lines are fitted to the regime it created rather than through it. Priced from that: 73.47 within 230 days, reached 89% of the time in 1034 comparable falls β about 0.08% a day held.
Price history, with the path projected 3 months forward
- Daily close
- Upper trend line (7 months)
- Lower trend line (7 months)
- The same lines over the last 12 months
- Dashed after today: projected 3 months
- Our buy
- Our target
Suggested path
Buy at or below
US$61.91
level as at 18 Sept 2026
Our target
US$66.87
by 27 Oct 2026
Projected move
8.0%
gross, before costs
Price sits between our buy level and our target.
The lines are drawn where this stock has actually turned: 3 touches on the ceiling, 4 on the floor, each fitted to the slope that catches the most of them. Buying one average daily range below its 50-day mean, on heavier volume than usual and while it is still above its 200-day mean, has come up 791 times; measured against the 6% floor β the least a call has to be worth to be worth making, not what it aims at β 73% cleared it, typically in 34 days, with price going about 5% against the entry along the way (63% in the worst case we have on record). Trades that have not reached the target within 3 months are counted as misses, whatever they are worth at the time. The prices above are this stockβs own β its average, its volatility β but the setup is the same one we apply everywhere: derived on eight unrelated tickers, then confirmed on 87 others it was never fitted to. We deliberately do not tune it to each stock: doing so scores worse on history the tuning never saw β 58% against 71% β because it fits the past rather than the future. On this stock the setup has come up 8 times so far, reaching target 25% of the time β too few to mean much on its own. The sell price comes from where this stock is projected to be, not from a minimum worth taking: the fitted path reaches 11% above the entry within 90 days, and of the sizes that path supports, 8% is the one that has returned the most per day of money tied up here β measured over the 14 times this entry has come up on this chart, reached 36% of the time, typically in 39 days. Smaller sizes got there sooner but paid less for the weeks they used; larger ones need a break above the projected ceiling, which is not the base case. The date published is whichever is later: that typical time, or the day the projected path itself reaches the price. It is a prediction, so it can be revised: if the run tops out before it gets there, the target is cut to what is actually on the table and you are told the same day. An ordinary pullback is not treated as topping out β those go on to make a new high about 8 times in 10, so they are ridden through. What triggers the revision is price closing below its 50-day trend and staying there, after which the odds of recovery fall to roughly 3 in 10.
- Upper line touches
- 3
- Lower line touches
- 4
- Fit confidence
- 74%
- Fitted
- 16 Sept 2026
About Unilever PLC
Unilever PLC operates as a fast-moving consumer goods company in the Asia Pacific, Africa, the Americas, and Europe. It operates through four segments: Beauty & Wellbeing, Personal Care, Home Care, and Foods. The Beauty & Wellbeing segment offers hair care, such as shampoo, conditioner, and styling; face, hand, and body moisturizer skin care products; and Prestige Beauty and Wellbeing products. The Personal Care segment provides soap and shower skin cleansing products; and deodorant and oral care, including toothpaste, toothbrush, and mouthwash products. The Home Care segment offers washing powders and liquids, and rinse conditioner fabric care products; and a range of home and hygiene cleaning products. The Foods segment provides cooking aids and mini meals comprising soups, bouillons, and seasonings, as well as mayonnaise and ketchup condiments; and Unilever food solutions. The company provides its products under the AXE, Clear, Cif, Closeup, Comfort, Dermalogica, Domestos, Dove, Dove Men+Care, Hellmann's, Horlicks, Knorr, LUX, Lifebuoy, Liquid I.V., Nexxus, Nutrafol, OMO, Pond's, Paula's Choice, Pepsodent, Radiant, Rexona, Sunlight, Sunsilk, Surf, TRESemmΓ©, and Vaseline brand names. Unilever PLC was founded in 1860 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.
- Sector
- Consumer Defensive
- Industry
- Household & Personal Products
- CEO
- Fernando Fernandez
- Employees
- 96,092
- Country
- GB
Scorecard
Our own pillar scores, computed from the fundamentals below. They are not Morningstar ratings β that data is licensed and we do not redistribute it.
- Valuation
- β
- Profitability
- β
- Financial health
- β
- Cash generation
- β
Key statistics
- Market cap
- US$136.95B
- Enterprise value
- β
- Beta
- 0.45
- Avg volume
- 4.14M
- Revenue per share
- β
- Dividend yield
- β
- 52-week range
- 54.75-74.98
- Exchange
- NYSE
Key ratios
- P/E (TTM)
- β
- PEG
- β
- Price / sales
- β
- Price / book
- β
- EV / EBITDA
- β
- Gross margin
- β
- Operating margin
- β
- Net margin
- β
- Current ratio
- β
- Quick ratio
- β
- Debt / equity
- β
- Interest cover
- β
Income statement
Balance sheet
Cash flow
Trend lines are fitted statistically to past swing highs and lows and projected forward on the assumption the same rhythm continues. It often does not. This is information, not advice.