UL
UL
+2.5%🟢 Fundamentally supportedUnilever PLC · Consumer Defensive
$66.29Vol 5.53M · 1.8× normalMkt cap +$3.53BMarket closed — 2026-10-16 session
What happened
Move
+2.5%
Price
$66.29
Volume
5.53M
1.8× normal
Market cap
$142.76B
+$3.53B today
Why it moved
Acquisition / M&Amedium confidence
- Jim Cramer and Elizabeth Warren criticize McCormick's $45B Unilever food merger — but for very different reasons — finnhub-news
- Sector-wide move — computed
Possible catalyst: acquisition / m&a, on 1.8× normal volume.
Verdict — was the move justified?
🟢 Fundamentally supported
Acquisition / M&A — direction and rough magnitude are consistent with the identified fundamental catalyst.
How unusual is this move
σ score
2.0σ
vs own 20d volatility
Percentile
95th
of 1278 daily moves
Avg daily move
±0.9%
own 5y average
vs sector
+1.5%
beyond sector median
Today’s move is among the largest 5% of UL’s daily moves over the last 5 years — while the sector moved +1.1% and the market -0.3%.
What happened after similar moves
75 similar up moves in UL’s 5-year history:
After 5 days
-0.1%
49% higher
After 20 days
-0.7%
47% higher
Median of same-direction moves within ±35% magnitude band. Past patterns don’t predict outcomes — context, not signal.
Fundamental context
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