United Airlines Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UAL) Investors To Reap Big Returns Again

United Airlines Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UAL) has a beta value of 1.55 and has seen 5.17 million shares traded in the last trading session. The company, currently valued at $14.40B, closed the last trade at $43.91 per share which meant it gained $0.36 on the day or 0.83% during that session. The UAL stock price is -32.61% off its 52-week high price of $58.23 and 23.3% above the 52-week low of $33.68. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 7.49 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 8.70 million shares.

United Airlines Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UAL) trade information

Sporting 0.83% in the green in last session, the stock has traded in the green over the last five days, when the UAL stock price touched $43.91 or saw a rise of 0.34%. Year-to-date, United Airlines Holdings Inc shares have moved 6.42%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change 4.13%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of United Airlines Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UAL) have changed 4.57%. Short interest in the company has seen 18.17 million shares shorted with days to cover at 2.39.

United Airlines Holdings Inc (UAL) estimates and forecasts

Figures show that United Airlines Holdings Inc shares have underperformed across the wider relevant industry. The company’s shares have lost -1.61% over the past 6 months, with this year growth rate of -3.28%, compared to -0.60% for the industry. Other than that, the company has, however, lowered its growth outlook for the 2024 fiscal year revenue. Growth estimates for the current quarter are 14.30% and -21.50% for the next quarter. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be 6.60%.

11 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of $12.41 billion for the current quarter. 11 have an estimated revenue figure of $15.15 billion for the next quarter concluding in Jun 2024. Year-ago sales stood $11.43 billion and $14.18 billion respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will grow by 8.60% for the current quarter and 6.90% for the next.

If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was 0.56% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2024 is a modest -4.02% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 42.79%.

UAL Dividends

United Airlines Holdings Inc is expected to release its next earnings report between April 16 and April 22 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue.

United Airlines Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UAL)’s Major holders

Insiders own 0.46% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 70.30% with a share float percentage of 70.62%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with United Airlines Holdings Inc having a total of 851 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are Vanguard Group Inc with over 37.77 million shares worth more than $2.07 billion. As of Jun 29, 2023, Vanguard Group Inc held 14.16% of shares outstanding.

The other major institutional holder is Primecap Management Company, with the holding of over 23.56 million shares as of Jun 29, 2023. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $1.29 billion and represent 8.83% of shares outstanding.

Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are Growth Fund Of America Inc and Vanguard/Primecap Fund. As of Jun 29, 2023, the former fund manager holds about 6.12% shares in the company for having 16.33 million shares of worth $896.04 million while later fund manager owns 12.14 million shares of worth $665.9 million as of Jun 29, 2023, which makes it owner of about 4.55% of company’s outstanding stock.