UTC is listed in this guy's midddle term watch list
http://alunacrypto.blogspot.nl/2014/02/how-to-pick-trade-next-profitable-altcoin-bitcoin-daytrading.html
Is it minting?
Sure
UTC going to catch vertcoin @ $4
Vertcoin has a 2.5 minute block time which means it's reward should be 5x UTC as payout/day for equivalent hashrates. hence, at $0.80 cents, UTC will have caught up to Vertcoin. I don't know Vertcoin's hashrate right now, so I don't know how the mining profit is comparatively, I do know they only get about half scrypt where this one gets 3/4th, so a little bit more conversion will be necessary.
I'm not saying it has to stop at $0.80 right now, but that's all it would take to be equivalent to VTC in added market cap / day.
VTC is not using scrypt-jane and first reward half time is much longer than UTC (4yr > 1yr i.e. 999,000 blocks).
And if we are to compare the total no. of coins. The expected prices are very close actually.
UTC: 100M VTC: 84M