PATH vs peers AI infrastructure: UiPath carries 25.0% of its float short, the second most crowded name on today's table, and 15 of its 20 analyst ratings are holds. It reports earnings on December 3, 25 days out, and the stock closed at $13.00 on November 6, down 0.08% on the session and 5.32% over the week.

The third number on the row is the multiple: 19.4 times trailing earnings and 14.1 times forward, which is 20th of the 50 names we scan. The fourth is the event, priced at 9.4% over five days and the widest of the three names that print on December 3.

The row, 25 days out

Score 50 at rank 43 of the 50 rows we scan, sector Technology, print date December 3, earnings sentiment Positive, short interest 25.0% of float, market capitalization $6.78 billion, implied volatility 78.4, and a scan price of $13.00.

Decomposed, the 50 is 20 points for analyst coverage, 3.8 for a 15.0% buy-side share, 2 for one strong buy, 9.4 for a 9.4% five-day implied move, and the full 15 for a Positive sentiment reading. That totals 50.2.

Thirty-five of those 50.2 points are the coverage and the sentiment reading, which say very little about the business itself. The analyst book contributes 5.8 of them and the event the options market has priced contributes 9.4.

Is PATH a better AI stock to buy than its peers?

On the two things this page compares, no. UiPath is not cheaper than the AI infrastructure names on our board, and it is the most crowded of them.

The multiple is 14.1 times forward earnings, 20th of the 50 names we scan. The cheapest ten are MOMO at 4.5, JD at 7.2, GLOB at 7.7, HPQ at 9.0, ZTO at 9.2, HPE and TME at 9.5, DELL at 10.8, NU at 10.9 and WIX at 11.1.

The crowding runs the other way from the multiple. A quarter of the float is sold short in UiPath, second only to VNET at 30.1% and ahead of TTD at 22.1%, ASAN at 21.0% and GLOB at 20.3%.

The book is the weakest of the three. Three of 20 ratings are on the buy side, which is 15.0%. Only SLAB, HPQ, TTD and QRVO carry a thinner one among the 50 rows we scan.

Where the price has been sitting this month

The month has been a round trip. UiPath closed at $13.07 on October 7, ran to $14.30 on October 26 and gave it all back, closing at $13.00 on November 6, 0.54% below where the month started.

The low close of the past month was $12.85 on October 16, so the stock is sitting just above the floor of its own range with 25 days left to the print. The three sessions into November 6 were flat, at $13.51, $13.01 and $13.00.

The crowding table

Short interest is the clearest thing about UiPath. A quarter of the float is sold short into a December 3 print, and that is the kind of positioning that can move a name in either direction once an event lands.

On its own print date, UiPath is an outlier. Three names print on December 3: PATH with 25.0% of float short, DOCU with 8.5% and SAIC with 5.8%. UiPath alone carries the crowding.

The other side of a crowded short is the implied move. The five-day band runs from $11.78 to $14.22 around the $13.00 scan price, which is 9.4% of room, against 8.9% at DOCU and 6.7% at SAIC. It is the widest event of the three names printing that day.

How does PATH's valuation compare with the rest of the board?

At 19.4 times trailing earnings and 14.1 times forward, UiPath is priced above every name on the board that a reader would call cheap, and the PEG of 0.41 says the forward number is doing the work.

Trailing earnings per share are $0.67 and the forward figure on the row is $0.9224, which is 37.7% higher. The PEG is computed off that gap, so the multiple looks reasonable only if the estimate holds.

Against the analysts, the target on the row is $13.57, 4.3% above the $13.00 scan price, and the downside mark is $12.43. That is a narrow corridor for a stock with a quarter of its float sold short.

Against the names on its own print date the picture is tighter still: DOCU trades at 14.9 times forward earnings and SAIC at 12.7, so UiPath sits between them on the multiple while carrying nearly three times DOCU's short interest and more than four times SAIC's.

What would have to change before the December 3 print?

The book first, because it is where the points are missing. Fifteen holds and two sells out of 20 ratings put conviction at 3.8 of 25 and the strong-buy column at 2 of 20, and coverage is another 5 points short of the maximum.

Second the implied move, because it is the one column that moves on its own. At 9.4 points it is worth a fifth of the score, and a quarter of the float short can widen it or squeeze it out.

Third the price. The downside mark is $12.43 and the post-earnings target is $14.22, both within 9.4% of the $13.00 scan price, and the stock is already 9.09% below the $14.30 close it made on October 26.

And one thing that is not a lever. The sentiment reading is already worth the full 15 points, and the earnings history behind it does not change before the print.

Our scan runs at 6:30 Pacific time and the whole table is published at our open data.

So PATH vs peers AI infrastructure is a comparison the record settles on two counts. 14.1 times forward earnings is 20th of the 50 names we scan, and 25.0% of float is short with 15 of 20 ratings at hold. That is a crowded stock on a mid-table multiple, with the widest priced event on its print date and the thinnest book on the board.

Whether that makes it a better AI stock to buy than its peers is the reader's call, and it is not one we make.

Questions on UiPath before the December 3 print

When does UiPath report earnings?

UiPath reports on December 3, 2026, 25 days from the November 8 morning scan, which carried the row with the print date set to December 3 and 25 days left on it.

How crowded is UiPath against the rest of the table?

25.0% of float is short, second only to VNET at 30.1% and ahead of TTD at 22.1%, ASAN at 21.0% and GLOB at 20.3%. It is the most crowded of the three names printing on December 3.

What did the analyst book on UiPath look like?

Twenty ratings: one strong buy, two buys, fifteen holds and two sells. That is 15.0% on the buy side, which is worth 3.8 of the 25 points the conviction column can award.