UVV
Universal Corporation
NYSE Consumer Defensive United States
38,22 $US
-3.58% today
-27.31% YTD · -28.63% 1Y
1
Insider transactions
SEC Form 4 · AMF · BaFin — rolling 90 days
61
Hedge funds tracked
Latest available SEC 13F filings
60
/ 100
STRONG

Analysis Universal Corporation (UVV) — Kairos Score 60/100

Composite score aggregating 8 smart money dimensions: insiders (SEC/AMF/BaFin), hedge funds, politicians & gurus, price momentum, valuation, analyst consensus, financial health, earnings momentum. The higher the score, the more favorable the institutional signals consensus.

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About Universal Corporation

Universal Corporation, a business-to-business agriproducts company, provides leaf tobacco and plant-based ingredients to food and beverage end markets worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Tobacco Operations and Ingredients Operations. The Tobacco Operations segment is involved in procuring, processing, packing of flue-cured, burley, dark air-cured, and oriental leaf tobacco for consumer product manufacturers, as well as provision of related services. This segment also offers specialty services, such as custom blending, chemical and physical testing of tobacco, service cutting, reconstituted leaf tobacco manufacturing, and just-in-time product delivery services; and liquid nicotine for tobacco products manufacturers, as well as recycled waste materials from tobacco production. The Ingredients Operations segment engages in the production of specialty plant-based ingredients, including fruits, vegetables, herbs, fruit and vegetable juices, concentrates, pomaces, ciders, purees, nutraceuticals, fruit fibers, seeds, seed powders, dehydrated products, botanical extracts, distillates, natural flavors, colors, and other value-added products for consumer-packaged goods manufacturers and retailers, as well as food, and beverage companies. The company was founded in 1918 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.

Key info

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CEO
Mr. Preston Douglas Wigner
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HQ
9201 Forest Hill Avenue, Richmond, VA, 23235, United States
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Employees
11 250
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Market cap
951 649 600,00 $US
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P/E
50.3
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Dividend yield
8.38%

🕴️ Insider activity (90 days)

1 transactions — 0 buys and 0 sales reported by Universal Corporation executives.

WP
Wigner Preston Douglas
Chairman, President & CEO · 2026-10-01
Other

🏦 Hedge Funds

61 institutional funds report a position on UVV in their latest SEC quarterly filing.

VANGUARD GROUP INC
BlackRock, Inc.
VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC
VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC
DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP

📰 Recent news

15 recent articles on UVV.

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Kairos Score 0-100

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