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UL Solutions Inc. (ULS) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

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

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 61/100 · S&P 500 fund at 75, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-10-06
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 98th percentile of the window, +5.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-10-06
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.74 · up 0.17 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-10-06
How it trades on rate days beta 0.64 to TLT · on the worst bond days it moved with the market

How it trades on rate days

How ULS has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.64 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), UL Solutions Inc. moved 0.64% on average · correlation 0.14 · higher than 65% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.13 less rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −0.59% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days +0.66% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Specialty Business Services · US · 5 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Specialty Business Services · US

This name carries no Closelooknet 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 ULS on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — UL Solutions Inc.

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

What it does
UL Solutions provides testing, inspection and certification services, along with related software and advisory work. Its industrial arm checks equipment and materials for energy, automation, engineered materials and the built environment. Its consumer arm certifies safety and performance for electronics, medical devices, appliances and other connected products. The software and advisory arm sells ULTRUS, a platform that helps manufacturers track regulation, supply chains and sustainability. The company traces back to 1894, is based in Northbrook, Illinois, and operates as a subsidiary of ULSE Inc.; it listed on the market in 2024.
Where it sits in the stack
UL Solutions holds no seat in Rubin, the diary's AI build-out index; it belongs instead to the Industrials sleeve of the wider Closelooknet universe, grouped with other US industrial names the diary scores on a common basis rather than placed against any build-out layer.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group places it with other scored US industrials sharing its sector and country, among them Nordson, Cintas, Verisk Analytics, Applied Industrial Technologies and Sunbelt Rentals; the market more often names Intertek as its direct certification rival.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
It carries no index seat but does hold a Closelooknet score, with cash quality its strongest module and momentum its weakest; the diary has not yet quoted it in an edition.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether the shares steady against their moving averages, since a quality-led score sits against a momentum reading that recent flow lists mark among the weaker names.

UL Solutions Inc. (ULS) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’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.

The Street on this name 1 analyst action on the wire · latest: price target by Baird, 2026-09-24

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for ULS from the Closelooknet wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Price target Baird — target 85 from 95 Target cut to $85 from $95 (+30% to spot) 2026-09-24

1 action on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 target change. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.83%, quarterly · last 0.15 USD on 2026-08-31

Dividends and capital return

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

  • Trailing 12 months 0.57 USD per share · a 0.83% yield on the 2026-10-06 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-10-06
  • Change on the year +44.9% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.39 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.15 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-31
  • By calendar year 2025: 0.52 USD (partial) · 2026: 0.44 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-02-28

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.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-10-07

Quick answers

What is UL Solutions Inc. (ULS)?

UL Solutions Inc. trades as ULS on the US exchange (US) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-10-07.

Is ULS in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — UL Solutions Inc. is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-10-07.

Where does ULS trade against its moving averages?

Downtrend stack: Trades -7.3% vs the 50-day and -17.7% vs the 200-day average, 36.2% below the 52-week high and +8.2% off the 52-week low; a death cross printed 26 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-10-06 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does UL Solutions Inc. compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Specialty Business Services · US), UL Solutions Inc. (ULS) sits 36.2% below its 52-week high, 7.3% below its 50-day average; Cintas Corporation (CTAS) is 10.8% below, Copart Inc (CPRT) is 44.8% below, Thomson Reuters Corporation Common Shares (TRI) is 38.7% below. Put any of them next to ULS in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

How does UL Solutions Inc. trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year UL Solutions Inc. had a beta of 0.64 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 65% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −0.59% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

What does UL Solutions Inc. do?

UL Solutions provides testing, inspection and certification services, along with related software and advisory work. Its industrial arm checks equipment and materials for energy, automation, engineered materials and the built environment. Its consumer arm certifies safety and performance for electronics, medical devices, appliances and other connected products. Closelooknet's peer group places it with other scored US industrials sharing its sector and country, among them Nordson, Cintas, Verisk Analytics, Applied Industrial Technologies and Sunbelt Rentals; the market more often names Intertek as its direct certification rival.

Where does UL Solutions Inc. sit in the AI build-out?

UL Solutions holds no seat in Rubin, the diary's AI build-out index; it belongs instead to the Industrials sleeve of the wider Closelooknet universe, grouped with other US industrial names the diary scores on a common basis rather than placed against any build-out layer. It carries no index seat but does hold a Closelooknet score, with cash quality its strongest module and momentum its weakest; the diary has not yet quoted it in an edition.

Does UL Solutions Inc. pay a dividend?

UL Solutions Inc. has paid 0.57 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 0.83% on the 2026-10-06 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.15 USD on 2026-08-31. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What has Wall Street done on UL Solutions Inc. recently?

The most recent analyst action on UL Solutions Inc. on the Closelooknet wire is a price target by Baird on 2026-09-24 (target 85 from 95). 1 action on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 target change. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelooknet readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

What does this page show?

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

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then Specialty Business Services, then Industrials. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet 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.