UniCredit S.p.A. shares are trading close to a major technical resistance, which, if broken, could yield new upside potential and an increase in volatility. This scenario can be anticipated.
Summary
● The company's MSCI ESG score, based on a ranking of the company relative to its industry, comes out particularly well.
Strengths
● The group's high margin levels account for strong profits.
● The equity is one of the most attractive in the market with regard to earnings multiple-based valuation.
● This company will be of major interest to investors in search of a high dividend stock.
● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.
● For the past year, analysts covering the stock have been revising their EPS expectations upwards in a significant manner.
● Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.
Weaknesses
● Most analysts recommend that the stock should be sold or reduced.
● The average consensus view of analysts covering the stock has deteriorated over the past four months.
● Over the past twelve months, analysts' consensus has been significantly revised downwards.
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UniCredit S.p.A. is one of the leading European banking groups. Income breaks down by activity as follows:
- retail banking (48.6%);
- corporate, investment, finance and market banking (47.2%): leasing, factoring, stock transactions, participation in the rate, exchange, stock and derivative markets, stock exchange intermediation, etc.;
- other (4.2%).
At the end of 2025, the group managed EUR 535.4 billion in deposits and EUR 433.5 billion in loans.
Products and services are marketed through a network of 3,075 branches located primarily in Italy (1,941).
Revenue (including intragroup) is distributed geographically as follows: Italy (44.1%), Germany (21.9%), Central and Eastern Europe (19%), Austria (10.5%) and Russia (4.5%).
This super rating is the result of a weighted average of the rankings based on the following ratings: Valuation (Composite), EPS Revisions (4 months), and Visibility (Composite). We recommend that you carefully review the associated descriptions.
Investor
Investor
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Global
Global
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Quality
Quality
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ESG MSCI
ESG MSCI
The MSCI ESG score assesses a company’s environmental, social, and governance practices relative to its industry peers. Companies are rated from CCC (laggard) to AAA (leader). This rating helps investors incorporate sustainability risks and opportunities into their investment decisions.
