Universal Corporation (UVV)
Consumer · NYQ
Price as at 1 Oct 2026, 03:26 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Universal Corporation trades at $41.79, which is 36% below the $56.79 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a valuation model is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 20 out of 100, which is little in the way of a moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 39.0 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
UVV dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $2.47 | 3 |
| 2025 | $3.26 | 4 |
| 2024 | $3.22 | 4 |
| 2023 | $3.18 | 4 |
| 2022 | $3.14 | 4 |
| 2021 | $3.10 | 4 |
| 2020 | $3.06 | 4 |
| 2019 | $3.02 | 4 |
| 2018 | $2.60 | 4 |
| 2017 | $2.16 | 4 |
| 2016 | $2.12 | 4 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
UVV earnings and analyst estimates
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
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.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
UVV passes 5 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
10 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Richard Pzena, PZENA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC$18.96M · 0.1% of book
- Two Sigma, TWO SIGMA INVESTMENTS, LP$18.70M · 0.0% of book
- D. E. Shaw, D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc.$16.71M · 0.0% of book
- Israel Englander, MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC$14.16M · 0.0% of book
- Steve Cohen, Point72 Asset Management, L.P.$7.03M · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
Politician trades in UVV
Trades in UVV disclosed by members of Congress and executive-branch officials, latest first:
- Donald J Trump · Executive branchSell · $1,001 - $15,000 · traded 15 May 2026 · disclosed 1 Jul 2026
- Donald J Trump · Executive branchSell · $1,001 - $15,000 · traded 30 Apr 2026 · disclosed 1 Jul 2026
- Donald J Trump · Executive branchSell · $15,001 - $50,000 · traded 8 Jul 2024 · disclosed 22 Sept 2026
- Donald J Trump · Executive branchBuy · $15,001 - $50,000 · traded 4 Jun 2024 · disclosed 22 Aug 2026
- Donna Shalala · HouseSell · $1,001 - $15,000 · traded 16 Apr 2019 · disclosed 27 Apr 2020
A disclosure reports a value band, not an amount, and is due up to 45 days after the trade; some arrive later. Every filer we track, each with their own page, is on the Congress trading tracker.
UVV peers
The largest companies in the same industry (Tobacco), then in the same sector.
- BTAFF British American Tobacco p.l.c.
- AIIR AIR Global PLC
- HCMC Healthier Choices Management Corp.
- RYM RYTHM, Inc.
- VPRB VPR Brands, LP
- LIFD LFTD Partners Inc.
- XXII 22nd Century Group, Inc.
- AMZN Amazon.com, Inc.
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Common questions
Is Universal Corporation (UVV) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $56.79, UVV at $41.79 is 36% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own UVV?
10 of the institutions we track reported a position in UVV in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is UVV's P/E ratio?
UVV trades at 39.0 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Does Universal Corporation (UVV) pay a dividend?
Yes. Universal Corporation yields 6.55% at the current share price. It has paid $3.29 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 40 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
Where does SteadyShares get its UVV data?
Fundamentals for UVV come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NYQ; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 1 Oct 2026, 03:26 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 96/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.