
UVV · NYSE
Universal Corporation
$39.55 -0.02 (-0.05%)
Company overview
Universal Corporation processes and supplies leaf tobacco and plant-based ingredients worldwide. The company operates through two segments: Tobacco Operations and Ingredients Operations. It is involved in the procuring, financing, processing, packing, storing, and shipping of leaf tobacco for sale to manufacturers of consumer tobacco products. The company contracts, purchases, processes, and sells flue-cured, burley, and oriental tobaccos that are primarily used in the manufacture of cigarettes, and dark air-cured tobaccos principally used in the manufacture of cigars, natural wrapped cigars and cigarillos, smokeless, and pipe tobacco products.
- Sector
- Consumer Defensive
- Industry
- Tobacco
- Exchange
- NYSE
- Market cap
- $985M
- Employees
- 10,800
- Headquarters
- Richmond, VA
- Website
- universalcorp.com
- CEO
- Preston Douglas Wigner
- Listed
- January 5, 1988
- P/E
- 30.42
- Dividend yield
- 7.70%
Company financials
- Revenue
- $2.9B
- Gross profit
- $511M
- Operating income
- $209M
- EBITDA
- $254M
- Net income
- $32.6M
- EPS
- $1.30
- Total assets
- $2.8B
- Total debt
- $940M
- Gross margin
- 17.47%
- Net margin
- 1.12%
- Earnings yield
- 3.29%
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