A Bull Market Continues To Unfold On United Airlines Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: UAL), As It Continued To Fall -27.24% In Year-To-Date

During the recent session, United Airlines Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UAL)’s traded shares were 1.95 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.16. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $70.65, reflecting an intraday loss of -3.92% or -$2.88. The 52-week high for the UAL share is $116.00, that puts it down -64.19 from that peak though still a striking 47.6% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $37.02. The company’s market capitalization is $23.13B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 7.68 million shares, and the average trade volume was 7.61 million shares over the past three months.

United Airlines Holdings Inc (UAL) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 1.46. UAL has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 19 analysts who have looked at this stock. 2 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 17 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 0.8.

United Airlines Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UAL) trade information

United Airlines Holdings Inc (UAL) registered a -3.92% downside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -3.92% in intraday trading to $70.65, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -5.64%, and it has moved by -23.35% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 55.55%. The short interest in United Airlines Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UAL) is 16.33 million shares and it means that shorts have 1.7 day(s) to cover.

The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $95, which implies an increase of 25.63% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $80 and $140 respectively. As a result, UAL is trading at a discount of -98.16% off the target high and -13.23% off the low.

United Airlines Holdings Inc (UAL) estimates and forecasts

In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will increase 6.16% 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 13.4B as predicted by 13 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 13 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to 16B by the end of current fiscal year. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled 12.54B and 14.99B respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to grow by 6.88% and then jump by 6.76% in the coming quarter.

An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings shrunk an estimated -3.98%. While earnings are projected to return 18.68% in 2025, the next five years will return 14.19% per annum.

UAL Dividends

United Airlines Holdings Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-Jan-20. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.

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

United Airlines Holdings Inc insiders own 0.54% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 88.75%, with the float percentage being 89.23%. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the largest shareholder of the company, while 1114.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 36.21 million shares (or 11.031% of all shares), a total value of $1.76 billion in shares.

The next largest institutional holding, with 23.73 million shares, is of PRIMECAP MANAGEMENT CO/CA/’s that is approximately 7.217% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $1.15 billion.

Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of United Airlines Holdings Inc (UAL) shares are GROWTH FUND OF AMERICA and VANGUARD CHESTER FUNDS-Vanguard PRIMECAP Fund. Data provided on Dec 31, 2024 indicates that GROWTH FUND OF AMERICA owns about 15.03 shares. This amounts to just over 5.63 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $1.06 billion market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 12.05, or about 4.52% of the stock, which is worth about $849.03 million.