After The Stock Rose 5.92% Over The Week, Is United Airlines Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: UAL) Still A Buy?

United Airlines Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UAL)’s traded shares stood at 5.18 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.16. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $74.04, to imply a decrease of -0.52% or -$0.39 in intraday trading. The UAL share’s 52-week high remains $116.00, putting it -56.67% down since that peak but still an impressive 50.0% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $37.02. The company has a valuation of $24.24B, with an average of 10.47 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 7.31 million shares over the past 3 months.

Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for United Airlines Holdings Inc (UAL), translating to a mean rating of 1.46. Of 19 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give UAL a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 2 advise Hold as 17 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at 0.8.

United Airlines Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UAL) trade information

After registering a -0.52% downside in the last session, United Airlines Holdings Inc (UAL) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 5.92%, and -30.49% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -23.75%. Short interest in United Airlines Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UAL) saw shorts transact 17.67 million shares and set a 2.87 days time to cover.

The extremes give us $80 and $140 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, UAL has been trading -89.09% off suggested target high and -8.05% from its likely low.

United Airlines Holdings Inc (UAL) estimates and forecasts

The rating firms project that company’s revenue will grow 6.36% compared to the previous financial year.

Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 13 analysts is 13.4B. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 13 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 16B.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 12.54B and 14.99B respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to rise 6.88% before jumping 6.76% in the following quarter.

An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings shrunk an estimated -3.98% for the past 5-year period. While 2025 is set for a 19.26% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 14.46% annually.

UAL Dividends

United Airlines Holdings Inc has its next earnings report out on 2025-Jan-20. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too.

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

United Airlines Holdings Inc insiders hold 0.54% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 88.75% of the shares at 89.23% float percentage. In total, 88.75% institutions holds shares in the company, led by VANGUARD GROUP INC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 36.21 million shares (or 11.031% of shares), all amounting to roughly $1.76 billion.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is PRIMECAP MANAGEMENT CO/CA/ with 23.73 million shares, or about 7.217% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $1.15 billion.

We also have GROWTH FUND OF AMERICA and Vanguard PRIMECAP Fund as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the United Airlines Holdings Inc (UAL) shares. Going by data provided on Dec 31, 2024 , GROWTH FUND OF AMERICA holds roughly 15.03 shares. This is just over 5.63% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $1.11 billion. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 12.05, or 4.52% of the shares, all valued at about 892.42 million.