Thesis

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Thesis Summary

UPS entered the second half of 2026 with an improving operating trajectory: second-quarter consolidated revenue and adjusted operating profit grew year over year, adjusted operating margin expanded, management raised full-year revenue, adjusted operating-profit and adjusted-EPS guidance, and the network program had delivered approximately $1.2 billion of first-half benefits toward approximately $3.0 billion expected for the year. The balanced view is Hold because realizing the raised outlook still depends on completing a large network and workforce transformation amid trade-policy, macroeconomic and significant-customer uncertainty.

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This section is the 12-month view: analyst targets and the probability-weighted scenarios built from them. The intrinsic value at the top of this page answers a different question: what the business is worth today.
Street view · analyst 12-month targets26 analysts · as of 18 Aug 2026
Low · most bearish analyst$76.00
Mean target$115.96
High · most bullish analyst$135.00
Our research · scenarios, merits, risks, and invalidation triggersResearch as of 2 Sep 2026
Scenarios · 12-month scenario targetsAnchored at research date
Bear CaseDownside scenario
$76.0023%

UPS falls below its raised outlook because network-reconfiguration benefits arrive more slowly than expected or trade-policy, macroeconomic and significant-customer pressures weaken demand or pricing. The substantial transformation charges recorded in the first half illustrate the execution burden even though management excludes those charges from adjusted guidance.

Base CaseCentral scenario
$115.9657%
Matches the consensus mean

UPS broadly meets its raised 2026 outlook of approximately $91.2 billion in consolidated revenue, approximately $8.65 billion in adjusted operating profit and approximately $7.22 in adjusted diluted EPS while completing the Amazon glide-down and progressing the network reconfiguration.

Bull CaseUpside scenario
$135.0020%

UPS delivers at least the approximately $3.0 billion of expected 2026 network-program benefits, sustains the second-quarter improvement in adjusted profitability, and raises its approximately $8.65 billion adjusted operating-profit outlook. Continued pricing strength and growth in forwarding, logistics and healthcare would reinforce the upside case.

Scenarios are anchored to street consensus at the research date, with our probabilities and rationale.

Key Investment Merits
  • Second-quarter 2026 consolidated revenue and non-GAAP adjusted operating profit grew year over year, while adjusted consolidated operating margin expanded to 9.2%.
  • Management raised full-year 2026 revenue, adjusted operating-profit and adjusted-EPS guidance after completing the planned Amazon glide-down and related network reconfiguration initiatives.
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Key Investment Risks
  • Management identifies global trade-policy changes, tariffs, geopolitical uncertainty and changing economic conditions as factors that could cause results to differ materially from expectations.
  • Execution remains material: UPS incurred approximately $1.2 billion of transformation costs in the first six months of 2026, and the initiatives are expected to conclude by 2027.
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All scenarios are estimates and subject to change. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

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