Unilever

Unilever Plc engages in the manufacture and sale of consumer goods. It operates through the following segments: Beauty and Personal Care, Foods and Refreshment, and Home Care. The Beauty and Personal Care segment offers skin cleansing, hair care, skin care, and deodorants categories. The Foods and Refreshment segment sells ice cream, savory, dressings, and tea. The Home Care segment includes fabric category and a wide range of cleaning products. The company was founded by Antonius Johannes Jurgens, Samuel van den Bergh, and William Hulme Lever on January 1, 1930 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Unilever Plc engages in the manufacture and sale of consumer goods. It operates through the following segments: Beauty & Wellbeing, Personal Care, Home Care, Nutrition, and Ice Cream. The Beauty & Wellbeing segment offers hair care, skin care, and prestige beauty and health & wellbeing. The Personal Care segment consists of sales of skin cleansing, deodorant, and oral care products. The Home Care segment comprises of sales of fabric care and a wide range of cleaning products. The Nutrition segment refers to sales of scratch cooking aids, dressings, and tea products. The Ice Cream segment covers primarily ice cream products. The company was founded by Antonius Johannes Jurgens, Samuel van den Bergh, and William Hulme Lever on January 1, 1930 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

The UK's competition regulator is to examine ‘green' claims made by Unilever PLC (LSE:ULVR) to make sure shoppers aren't being misled.  The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is concerned that Unilever, the maker of Persil and Dove, may be overstating how green certain products are through the use of vague and broad claims, unclear statements around recyclability, and ‘natural' looking images and logos.

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Unilever is a defensive blue-chip company, which can provide stability in your portfolio. The company currently offers an attractive dividend yield of almost 4% and is significantly higher compared to its peers. Unilever is well-positioned for a turnaround, which could result in increased profitability and further dividend growth.

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Unilever is undergoing a management change and starting fresh with a new approach, showing potential for a turnaround. The valuation gap between Unilever and its competitor Procter & Gamble is widening, suggesting undervaluation of Unilever. Unilever has a number of key strengths, including its strong position in emerging markets and a well-diversified and innovative product portfolio.

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The consumer products titan has been going through a period of significant change. The CEO overseeing those changes has moved on, and a successor has moved in.

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Unilever rose 1.4% supported by positive comments from Barclays which has high hopes for new chief executive, Hein Schumacher. The broker has upgraded the Marmite owner to overweight from neutral and raised its price target to 4,600p.

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Unilever CEO Hein Schumacher will have his pay frozen until 2026. Shareholders voted against his base salary of $1.96 million at the AGM in May.

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Unilever is freezing its chief executive's salary for two years after shareholders complained about the level of top executives' pay packages at the household goods giant. Hein Schumacher, in charge since July, will not receive a fixed pay increase in 2024 and 2025 after a58% shareholder vote against the pay deals at the annual general meeting.

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Unilever PLC (NYSE:UL ) Q3 2023 Results Conference Call October 26, 2023 3:30 AM ET Company Participants Hein Schumacher - Chief Executive Officer Graeme Pitkethly - Chief Financial Officer Jemma Spalton - Head of Investor Relations Conference Call Participants Rashad Kawan - Morgan Stanley Warren Ackerman - Barclays Guillaume Delmas - UBS Bruno Monteyne - Bernstein James Edward Jones - RBC Tom Skykes - Deutsche Jeff Stent - BNP Karel Zoete - Kepler Celine Pannuti - JPM Hein Schumacher Good morning, and welcome to Unilever's Third Quarter Trading Statement and CEO update. Today's agenda will run as follows.

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Unilever PLC (LSE:ULVR) reported price growth continued to ease in the third quarter as it unveiled a 5.2% rise in underlying sales in the third quarter. The owner of Domestos and Ben & Jerry's said turnover decreased 3.8% to €15.2 billion, but underlying sales grew 5.2% boosted by higher prices, up 5.8%, while volumes fell 0.6%.

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Unilever PLC (LSE:ULVR) will provide third-quarter results on October 26, marking a chance for fresh chief executive Hein Schumacher to delve into his plans for the business. Having been appointed on July 1, Schumacher gave a brief overview of his plans to “improve competitiveness” at the consumer goods giant in its interim results later that month.

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Unilever PLC (UL) has become technically an oversold stock now, which implies exhaustion of the heavy selling pressure on it. This, combined with strong agreement among Wall Street analysts in revising earnings estimates higher, indicates a potential trend reversal for the stock in the near term.

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Unilever outperformed the broader consumer staples sector since I made the stock a high conviction idea of mine. Bears remain focused on the currently lower margins and the probability of a lower revenue growth going forward. In the meantime, margins are set to improve over the coming quarters as the scenario that the market is pricing-in appears unlikely.

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