Union Pacific (UNP) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials
Union Pacific's price regime, relative strength, unusual-options and unusual-volume history, curated-manager ownership and filed fundamentals — joined into one dated stock intelligence page.
What the evidence says now
UNP closed at $308.05 on Aug 21, 2026. The price is +7.6% from its 50-day average and +20.2% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “established uptrend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned +16.1%, beating SPY by 13.0%. It remains 2.5% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessLast updated 2026-08-21 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is +7.6% from its 50-day average and +20.2% from its 200-day average. Over three months, UNP returned +16.1% versus +3.1% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- +7.6%
- vs 200-day
- +20.2%
- From 52W high
- -2.5%
Descriptive, not predictive. “Uptrend” is a rules-based reading of the close and moving averages; it is not a rating, price target or recommendation.
Price & regime
One year of daily price and volume
252 split-adjusted sessions · candles above, share volume below
Unusual options — attention, not intent
UNP appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 4 of 62 archived scanner sessions: 4 call-side, 0 put-side and 0 on both lists. The latest session did not place it in either top 30. Its larger composite score was 0.04, below the 1.5 “strong” threshold. That is repeated options attention, not proof of bullish trade initiation.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-31 | #17 | — |
| 2026-07-27 | #18 | — |
| 2026-06-15 | #17 | — |
| 2026-05-28 | #10 | — |
Latest chain snapshot
2026-08-21Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.127 calls, 0.068 puts.
Curated-manager ownership
2 of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long Union Pacific position in their latest filing, worth $418M in aggregate at each filing's reported value. This is a focused manager panel, not the complete institutional holder list.
| Fund / manager | Position value | Portfolio | Shares | Quarter change | Report date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Baupost Group Seth Klarman · UNP | $322M | 5.95% | 1.19M | -23.1% reduced | 2026-06-30 |
Third Point Daniel Loeb · UNP | $95M | 2.03% | 350,000 | +250.0% increased | 2026-06-30 |
Filed fundamentals — latest snapshot
Go deeper into the filings
The dedicated Financials dashboard carries the complete quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history, with derived figures flagged and every XBRL concept disclosed.
Open UNP Financials →How UNP trades — the working manual
Union Pacific operates a western U.S. freight railroad spanning industrial, agricultural and consumer supply chains. For the stock, carloads and pricing must be read with traffic mix, network velocity, labor productivity and capital intensity, because small changes in service and asset utilization can have large effects on margins and shipper retention.
What can move the tape
- 01Freight volumes and mix across intermodal, industrial, agricultural and energy markets.
- 02Core pricing, fuel surcharges and the spread between revenue and inflation.
- 03Train velocity, terminal dwell, labor productivity and locomotive utilization.
- 04Capital spending, free-cash-flow conversion and shareholder distributions.
What can fool the read
- 01Industrial and consumer slowdowns can weaken several freight categories simultaneously.
- 02Service deterioration can cost market share even when pricing remains firm.
- 03Labor availability, regulation and safety requirements can raise costs or limit operations.
- 04Weather, congestion and network disruptions can impair volumes and efficiency with little notice.
Union Pacific triggered 1 issuer-level flag in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-08-21 archive. The latest was UNP on 2026-04-23: 3.0× its 30-day average volume while the stock moved +5.8% that session.
Not published yet. The local archive has 1 reported UNP events—too few for a defensible gap-and-drift study. This missing block is an explicit indexing blocker.
Source map & freshness
| Block | What it uses | Vintage | Raw data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | SEC issuer + primary security mapping | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-08-21 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-08-21 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-08-21 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-08-16 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
UNP stock questions
Is UNP stock in an uptrend?+
UNP is classified in the “established uptrend” regime as of 2026-08-21: the close is +7.6% from its 50-day average and +20.2% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.
What does unusual options activity in UNP mean?+
Union Pacific's OTM option chain produced an outlier relative to the scanner universe on at least one archived session. Call-side and put-side labels identify which book produced the signature; end-of-day chain data does not identify buyers, sellers, institutions or spread legs.
Are the UNP 13F holdings current?+
No. 13F filings are delayed quarter-end snapshots and cover only the curated managers in this project. They are useful for documented ownership changes, not real-time positioning or complete institutional ownership.
Where are UNP's income statement and cash flow?+
The dedicated UNP Financials page contains the full quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history parsed from SEC EDGAR XBRL. This stock page carries only the latest filed snapshot.
Why is there no UNP earnings-move base rate yet?+
The committed earnings archive does not yet contain enough reported events for a defensible company-level reaction study. The page leaves that block unpublished instead of presenting a tiny sample as a reliable base rate.