Jetblue Airways Corp (NASDAQ: JBLU) Is Up 41.24% From Its 52-Week Low; YTD, It Is Up 4.88% – What To Do Now

During the recent session, Jetblue Airways Corp (NASDAQ:JBLU)’s traded shares were 3.9 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.89. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $5.82, reflecting an intraday gain of 1.76% or $0.1. The 52-week high for the JBLU share is $7.58, that puts it down -30.24 from that peak though still a striking 41.24% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $3.42. The company’s market capitalization is $2.02B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 17.55 million shares, and the average trade volume was 15.74 million shares over the past three months.

Jetblue Airways Corp (JBLU) received a consensus recommendation of Hold from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 3.14. JBLU has a Sell rating from 1 analyst(s) out of 9 analysts who have looked at this stock. 5 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 3 recommend a Buy rating for it. 0 analyst(s) has rated the stock Underweight. Company’s earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter are expected to be -0.32.

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Jetblue Airways Corp (NASDAQ:JBLU) trade information

Jetblue Airways Corp (JBLU) registered a 1.76% upside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 1.76% in intraday trading to $5.82, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -1.68%, and it has moved by 22.03% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 25.17%. The short interest in Jetblue Airways Corp (NASDAQ:JBLU) is 69.08 million shares and it means that shorts have 3.24 day(s) to cover.

The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $6, which implies an increase of 3.0% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $4.5 and $20 respectively. As a result, JBLU is trading at a discount of -243.64% off the target high and 22.68% off the low.

Jetblue Airways Corp (JBLU) estimates and forecasts

Statistics show that Jetblue Airways Corp has underperformed its competitors in share price, compared to the industry in which it operates. Jetblue Airways Corp (JBLU) shares have gone down -18.82% during the last six months, with a year-to-date growth rate less than the industry average at -122.22% against -17.70. Yet analysts are ramping up their growth forecast for the fiscal year 2024. Revenue is predicted to grow 17.90% this quarter and then drop -63.20% in the quarter after that. In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will decrease -3.60% compared to the previous financial year.

As companies strive to predict their financial trajectories, we turn our attention to the forthcoming financial quarter. Here are the insights gathered from industry analysts. Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be 2.33B as predicted by 10 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 10 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to 2.29B by the end of current fiscal year. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled 2.35B and 2.33B respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to shrink by -1.10% and then drop by -1.60% in the coming quarter.

While earnings are projected to return -109.80% in 2024, the next five years will return 42.50% per annum.

JBLU Dividends

Jetblue Airways Corp is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2024-Oct-29. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.

Jetblue Airways Corp (NASDAQ:JBLU)’s Major holders

Jetblue Airways Corp insiders own 10.50% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 82.00%, with the float percentage being 91.62%. BLACKROCK INC. is the largest shareholder of the company, while 436.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 55.28 million shares (or 16.2744% of all shares), a total value of $336.68 million in shares.

The next largest institutional holding, with 35.83 million shares, is of VANGUARD GROUP INC’s that is approximately 10.5482% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $218.22 million.