NEW YORK (

TheStreet

) --

Union Pacific

(NYSE:

UNP

) hit a new 52-week high Wednesday as it is currently trading at $115.97, above its previous 52-week high of $115.81 with 235,777 shares traded as of 9:40 a.m. ET. Average volume has been 2.7 million shares over the past 30 days.

Union Pacific has a market cap of $53.72 billion and is part of the

services

sector and

transportation

industry. Shares are up 7.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday.

Union Pacific Corporation, through its subsidiary, Union Pacific Railroad Company, provides rail transportation services in North America. The company has a P/E ratio of 17.1, above the average transportation industry P/E ratio of 16.5 and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

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TheStreet Ratings rates Union Pacific as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, impressive record of earnings per share growth, robust revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and good cash flow from operations. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook. You can view the full

Union Pacific Ratings Report

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