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Trade Parameters
Technical Observations – For
Technical Observations – Against
Bullish share price breakout, taking shares to multi-month highs. On 6 Dec, Berenberg said the new CEO is reassuring on 2020 targets. On 3 Dec Moody’s said ‘s acquisition of GSK’s Indian consumer business will be a good fit.
Risks to Unilever include a market rally that favours risk assets over defensives, interest rates hikes that make bonds more attractive than Unilever’s dividends, a general economic downturn that sees consumption fall and, of course, broker downgrades.
Brokers are bullish on Unilever’s shares, with an overwhelmingly 90% of analysts saying “Buy” or “Hold”. Sentiment is further supported by two-thirds of brokers seeing share price upside to an average target of 4424p, just below our near term target of 4500p.
Next Event: Trading Update, early Feb
Latest Broker 12-Month Consensus: 55% Buy, 35% Hold, 10% Sell (full breakdown on request)
Source: DowJones Newswires, Reuters News, Bloomberg or Company Press releases
| 1wk | 1m | 3m | 6m | 1yr | 2yr | 3yr | 4yr | 5yr | |
| Perf % | 1.7 | 5.4 | 1.6 | 5.5 | 4.3 | 39.8 | 59.1 | 64.6 | 80.2 |
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