Universal Corp (UVV) Stock Is Falling Today: What’s Behind the Drop, and Are Other Tobacco Stocks Plummeting Today?
Quick Read – UVV cratered 6%, breaking below its 52-week low after Q1 EPS missed by $0.45 and Tobacco Operations operating income collapsed 90%. – While MO and PM slipped modestly on strong recent earnings, TPB surged 16% after Modern Oral pouch revenue jumped 149%. – UVV’s 56-year dividend streak yields 6%, anchoring the bull case as management expects tobacco shipments to rebound in H2 FY27. – Act now: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks — and Universal didn’t make the cut
Grab the names FREE today. Shares of Universal (NYSE:UVV) are trading at $47.75, down 6.08% in the current session and off 3.51% over the past week. The slide follows a badly missed fiscal Q1 earnings report and pushes the leaf-tobacco merchant below its 52-week low of $47.66, breaking a support level that had held for months.
Earnings Miss Sparks a Fresh Leg Lower Universal reported first-quarter fiscal 2027 results after the close on August 5, 2026, and the numbers were ugly. Adjusted EPS came in at -$0.20, missing the $0.25 consensus. Revenue of $523.78 million came in short of the $587.00 million estimate, a decline of 11.79% year over year.