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Company Profile & Ownership

United Parcel Service, Inc., a package delivery and logistics provider, offers transportation and delivery services. It operates through two segments, U.S. Domestic Package and International Package. The U.S. Domestic Package segment offers time-definite delivery services for express letters, documents, packages and palletized freight through air and ground services. The International Package segment provides small package operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Canada and Latin America, and Asia. The company offers a range of guaranteed day- and time-definite international transportation services; day-definite services; cross-border ground package delivery; contract-only, e-commerce solutions for non-urgent, and cross-border shipments; and international service for urgent and palletized shipments. It also provides international air and ocean freight forwarding, contract logistics, customs brokerage and insurance, mail services, healthcare logistics, distribution, and post-sales services. United Parcel Service, Inc. was founded in 1907 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

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United Parcel Service Inc

Common Stock · Industrials · Air Freight & Logistics

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Company

Company / asset: United Parcel Service Inc
Security type: Common Stock
Sector: Industrials
Industry: Air Freight & Logistics
HQ: 🇺🇸 United States
Head office: 55 Glenlake Parkway, N.E., Atlanta, GA, United States, 30328

Leadership & scale

Chief executive: Ms. Carol B. Tome
CEO year born: 1957
Full-time employees: 460K
Fiscal year end: December
IPO date: 1999-11-10

Fundamentals snapshot

Updated 2026-09-16

Market Cap: USD 80.6B
P/E: 17.6x
Revenue (Q2 26): USD 22.8B
Profit (Q2 26): USD 604.0M
Dividend Yield: 4.8%
Revenue (FY 25): USD 88.7B
Shares in public float: 748.5M
Insider ownership: 0.02%

Reporting & identifiers

Symbol: UPS.NYSE
Listing: 🇺🇸 United States | Dividend Tax: 30%
Ticker Currency: USD
Income Statement Currency: USD
Balance Sheet Currency: USD
Cash Flow Currency: USD
EPS Currency: USD
Contract Type: SPOT
ISIN: US9113121068
Asset ID: equity_1de07560-60a7-5236-8a78-c544542807fa

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Shares Outstanding

Shares outstanding

Annual reported shares outstanding. Values in shares.

Top holders

BlackRock Inc51,115,897 shares · 6.01% · Reported 2026-03-31
Vanguard Capital Management, LLC48,152,554 shares · 5.66% · Reported 2026-03-31
State Street Corp32,598,590 shares · 3.83% · Reported 2026-03-31
FMR Inc32,574,845 shares · 3.83% · Reported 2026-03-31
Vanguard MStar Total Stk Mkt Idx Invest23,774,113 shares · 2.79% · Reported 2026-07-31
Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc22,112,857 shares · 2.60% · Reported 2026-03-31
Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF™20,391,020 shares · 2.40% · Reported 2026-08-29

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Vanguard 500 Index Investor19,603,034 shares · 2.30% · Reported 2026-07-31
Geode Capital Management, LLC17,511,765 shares · 2.06% · Reported 2026-03-31
Victory Capital Management Inc.14,251,075 shares · 1.68% · Reported 2026-06-30
Vanguard Portfolio Management, LLC13,471,962 shares · 1.58% · Reported 2026-03-31
Morgan Stanley - Brokerage Accounts10,170,608 shares · 1.20% · Reported 2026-03-31
iShares Core S&P 500 ETF9,941,861 shares · 1.17% · Reported 2026-08-31
Bank of America Corp9,728,123 shares · 1.14% · Reported 2026-03-31
Fidelity 500 Index9,654,079 shares · 1.13% · Reported 2026-07-31

Earnings, Profitability & Valuation

Earnings & Revenue

AI Review

The company's headline financials paint a confusing picture of steady revenue alongside tumbling profits. While second-quarter 2026 revenue rose over seven percent to almost twenty-three billion dollars, reported net income dropped by more than half to six hundred four million dollars. This drop was largely caused by an eight hundred ninety-one million dollar after-tax charge to pay for voluntary driver buyouts as management reshapes the delivery network. Looking past these temporary restructuring expenses reveals an underlying business that is gradually stabilizing. By deliberately cutting ties with unprofitable, low-paying Amazon deliveries, the company is focusing on higher-paying small business and medical packages. Once one-time buyout charges stop draining earnings, underlying operating profits should begin recovering toward normal historical levels.

Revenue, Net Income, and Free Cash Flow

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Free cash flow
Net income

Annual reported financial results, converted using the statement's recorded USD conversion. Missing values are omitted. Values in USD.

Valuation

Historical P/E Ratio

Published P/E

Published valuation snapshots. Trailing four-quarter earnings where available; annual earnings otherwise. Non-positive earnings are omitted. Values in times earnings.

Profitability & Margins

AI Review

Operating profit margins have suffered a multi-year decline, falling from peak levels above thirteen percent down to around seven point three percent on a trailing basis. This margin squeeze was driven by frontloaded wage increases from the five-year union contract, spike-driven fuel expenses, and the loss of package density as Amazon shifted parcels to its own delivery network. Despite this squeeze, are beginning to show early signs of finding a bottom. Modern sorting hubs are cutting the cost to process each package by twenty-eight percent, and high-margin healthcare transport is growing steadily. If automated hubs successfully absorb the scheduled August 2027 wage increase, overall should gradually climb back toward double digits over the next few years.

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Annual gross, operating, net income and free cash flow divided by revenue for matching reporting dates. Values in percent.

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Annual earnings and profitability
Period end	Revenue	Free cash flow	Net income	Gross margin	Operating margin	Net margin	Free cash flow margin
2016-12-31	60,906,000,000	3,508,000,000	3,431,000,000	8.98	8.98	5.63	5.76
2017-12-31	65,872,000,000	-3,748,000,000	4,910,000,000	11.43	11.43	7.45	-5.69
2018-12-31	71,911,000,000	6,428,000,000	4,791,000,000	19.7	9.84	6.66	8.94
2019-12-31	73,917,000,000	2,259,000,000	4,440,000,000	21.77	10.66	6.01	3.06
2020-12-31	84,432,000,000	5,047,000,000	1,343,000,000	25.8	9.28	1.59	5.98
2021-12-31	97,204,000,000	10,813,000,000	12,890,000,000	17.93	13.48	13.26	11.12
2022-12-31	100,034,000,000	9,335,000,000	11,548,000,000	20.07	12.96	11.54	9.33
2023-12-31	90,745,000,000	5,080,000,000	6,708,000,000	19.51	10.33	7.39	5.6
2024-12-31	90,894,000,000	6,213,000,000	5,782,000,000	18.77	9.56	6.36	6.84
2025-12-31	88,661,000,000	4,765,000,000	5,572,000,000	18.08	8.87	6.28	5.37

Published valuation snapshots
Period end	P/E (times earnings)	Earnings basis
2025-12-31	15.18	Trailing four quarters
2024-12-31	18.71	Trailing four quarters
2023-12-31	20.11	Trailing four quarters
2022-12-31	13.11	Annual net income
2021-12-31	14.62	Annual net income

Shares outstanding — chart values
Reporting date	Shares outstanding
2017-01-01	872,000,000
2018-01-01	869,000,000
2019-01-01	863,000,000
2020-01-01	871,000,000
2021-01-01	879,000,000
2022-01-01	871,000,000
2023-01-01	858,000,000
2024-01-01	858,000,000
2025-01-01	853,000,000
2026-01-01	851,000,000

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