Univar Inc. (UNVR) distributes commodity and specialty chemical products, and related services worldwide.
It offers herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, seed, micronutrients, and horticultural products; storage, packaging, and logistics services for crop protection companies, storing chemicals, feed-grade materials, and seed and equipment parties; and pest control products.
The company also provides organic, inorganic, and polymer chemistries; enzymes, surfactants, solvents, dispersants, thickeners, bleaching aides, builders, chelants, alkalis, and other chemicals for the manufacturing of cleaning products; resins, pigments, solvents, thickeners, dispersants, and other additives; and epoxy resins, polyurethanes, titanium dioxides, fumed silica, esters, plasticizers, silicones, and specialty amines.
In addition, it offers thickeners, emulsifiers, sweeteners, preservatives, leavening agents, and humectants, as well as texturizer and fat replacement products that include xanthan gum, locust bean gum, cellulosics, and guar gum; acidulants; and caustic soda, hydrochloric acid, solvents, absorbents, catalysts, fuel additives, water soluble polymers, gas treating amines, and other products for mining industry.
Further, the company provides surfactants, emollients, emulsifiers, rheology modifiers, active ingredients, color, preservatives, and processing aids for the personal care industry; pharmaceutical ingredients and products, such as aspirin, ascorbic acid, caffeine, and ibuprofen, as well as excipients that include phosphates, polyethylene glycols, polysorbates, methylcellulose, stearyl alcohol, and stearates.
Furthermore, it offers transportation and warehousing infrastructure, and chemicals and hazardous materials handling services. It distributes its products through warehouse delivery, direct-to-consumer delivery, and ChemPoint.com, a distribution platform for specialty and fine chemicals.
Shares are heading higher in an upward trading channel. Presently, shares are sitting at the lower boundary of the said channel. Higher share prices are exected for this stock.
52-Weeks Trading Range: $11.02 to $31.06
Entry Point: $28.90
Stop Loss: $27.70
Target Price: $31.80
UNVR closed at $32.00