Universal Corporation (UVV)

Universal Corporation is trading at $46.31, up 1.78% on the session. The 50 day average sits at $50.24 and the 200 day at $52.67, which puts the stock in a downtrend. RSI is at 36.1, which reads as weak, and MACD is bullish crossover. Volume is average.

The nearest support is around $43.36 with resistance near $46.80, so that band frames the current range. Average daily movement is roughly $1.19, or about 2.6% of the share price, which is what any stop placement has to allow for. The overall health score of 35 out of 100 combines a trend score of 3, momentum of 45 and a risk score of 71.

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.