In the last trading session, 7.8 million shares of the United Airlines Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UAL) were traded, and its beta was 1.13. Most recently the company’s share price was $78.90, and it changed around -$1.32 or -1.65% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $25.83B. UAL currently trades at a discount to its 52-week high of $116.00, offering almost -47.02% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $37.02, which indicates that the current value has risen by an impressive 53.08% since then. We note from United Airlines Holdings Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 8.82 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 7.49 million.
United Airlines Holdings Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.46. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 1 out of 24 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 8 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 0 recommended UAL as a Hold, whereas 15 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight. United Airlines Holdings Inc is expected to report earnings per share of 0.8 for the current quarter.
United Airlines Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UAL) trade information
Instantly UAL has showed a red trend with a performance of -1.65% at the end of last trading. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 82.54 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 4.41%. The company’s shares are currently down -18.74% year-to-date, but still up 10.60% over the last five days. On the other hand, United Airlines Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UAL) is -19.30% down in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 17.67 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 2.87 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $95, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 16.95% from its current value. Analyst projections state that UAL is forecast to be at a low of $80 and a high of $140.
United Airlines Holdings Inc (UAL) estimates and forecasts
The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 6.36%, up from the previous year.
Consensus estimates provided by 13 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 13.4B in revenue for the current quarter. 13 analysts expect United Airlines Holdings Inc to make 16B in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 12.54B and 14.99B respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 6.88%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 6.76%.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a negative earnings growth rate of -3.98%. United Airlines Holdings Inc earnings are expected to increase by 19.26% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 14.46% per year for the next five years.
UAL Dividends
United Airlines Holdings Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-Jan-20.
United Airlines Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UAL)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 0.54% of United Airlines Holdings Inc shares, and 88.75% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 89.23%. United Airlines Holdings Inc stock is held by 1115.0 institutions, with VANGUARD GROUP INC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 11.031% of the shares, which is about 36.21 million shares worth $1.76 billion.
PRIMECAP MANAGEMENT CO/CA/, with 7.217% or 23.73 million shares worth $1.15 billion as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
GROWTH FUND OF AMERICA and Vanguard PRIMECAP Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Dec 31, 2024 . The former held 15.03 shares worth $1.19 billion, making up 5.63% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard PRIMECAP Fund held roughly 12.05 shares worth around $951.0 million, which represents about 4.52% of the total shares outstanding.
