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Unilever PLC ADR (UL) — chart, structure and Closelook read

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Company snapshot — Unilever PLC ADR

UL in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Unilever makes household and personal-care products sold across four segments: beauty and wellbeing, personal care, home care, and foods. Its brands span skin and hair care, soap and oral care, laundry and cleaning products, and cooking staples such as soups and condiments. The company sells through supermarkets, pharmacies and food-service channels across many regions and is based in London.
Where it sits in the stack
Unilever carries no seat in our index; it sits outside the AI build-out entirely, in the household and personal-products corner of the consumer-staples sector the diary tracks separately from the chip stack. It is not a constraint on, or customer of, any layer we follow.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group lists no comparison set for this name; the market's usual comparison is Procter & Gamble, alongside Colgate-Palmolive and Nestlé as consumer-staples names of similar scale.
Why Closelook tracks it
Unilever holds no index seat and carries no Closelook score. The diary quotes it only inside Daily Pulse cross-asset reads, where it appears alongside names such as NOC, MCD and PFE as a defensive name flagged by the pattern scanner during risk-off sessions.
What the diary watches
Whether its appearances in the pattern scanner's support-confluence signals turn from isolated flags into a repeated pattern across sessions, which would say more about broad risk appetite than about the company itself.

Unilever PLC ADR (UL) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for UL, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Household & Personal Products · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Household & Personal Products

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against UL on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 3.45%, quarterly · last 0.53 USD on 2026-08-07

Dividends and capital return

What UL pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 2.13 USD per share · a 3.45% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year +13.3% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 1.88 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.53 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-07
  • By calendar year 2024: 1.75 USD (partial) · 2025: 1.93 USD · 2026: 1.63 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2024-02-22

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is Unilever PLC ADR (UL)?

Unilever PLC ADR trades as UL on the US exchange (US) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is UL in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Unilever PLC ADR is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

Where does UL trade against its moving averages?

Mixed moving-average stack: Trades -1.8% vs the 50-day and -0.8% vs the 200-day average, 16.1% below the 52-week high and +13.6% off the 52-week low; a golden cross printed 12 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Unilever PLC ADR do?

Unilever makes household and personal-care products sold across four segments: beauty and wellbeing, personal care, home care, and foods. Its brands span skin and hair care, soap and oral care, laundry and cleaning products, and cooking staples such as soups and condiments. The company sells through supermarkets, pharmacies and food-service channels across many regions and is based in London. Closelook's peer group lists no comparison set for this name; the market's usual comparison is Procter & Gamble, alongside Colgate-Palmolive and Nestlé as consumer-staples names of similar scale.

Where does Unilever PLC ADR sit in the AI build-out?

Unilever carries no seat in our index; it sits outside the AI build-out entirely, in the household and personal-products corner of the consumer-staples sector the diary tracks separately from the chip stack. It is not a constraint on, or customer of, any layer we follow. Unilever holds no index seat and carries no Closelook score. The diary quotes it only inside Daily Pulse cross-asset reads, where it appears alongside names such as NOC, MCD and PFE as a defensive name flagged by the pattern scanner during risk-off sessions.

Does Unilever PLC ADR pay a dividend?

Unilever PLC ADR has paid 2.13 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 3.45% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.53 USD on 2026-08-07. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelook written about Unilever PLC ADR?

Unilever PLC ADR appears in 5 Closelook pieces, most recently Daily Pulse: Layer-1 chips surge as Europe and US futures fade (2026-05-21); Daily Pulse: Vol complex splits as bond stress offsets equity calm (2026-05-19); Daily Pulse: Friday flips broadly risk-off — Korea −6.1%, Temperature still 57 (2026-05-18). What Closelook said most recently: The reading sits just above the neutral midpoint, consistent with a market that has bounced but not yet committed to a sustained risk-on regime. §11 — Pattern Scanner Active 28 signals · PFE 36 🟡 support-confluence · MCD 36 🟡… (Daily Pulse, 2026-05-21). The "Mentioned on Closelook" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for UL, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelook 5 pieces · newest: Daily Pulse, “Layer-1 chips surge as Europe and US futures fade” (2026-05-21)

Mentioned on Closelook

Where UL appears in the diary — 5 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Dailies

Related in the Closelook universe

then Household & Personal Products, then Consumer Defensive. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.