United Airlines Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UAL): Buy, Sell Or Hold At $71.37?

In last trading session, United Airlines Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UAL) saw 8.14 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 1.40. Company’s recent per share price level of $71.37 trading at $3.17 or 4.65% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $23.36B. That closing price of UAL’s stock is at a discount of -62.53% from its 52-week high price of $116.00 and is indicating a premium of 48.13% from its 52-week low price of $37.02. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 8.55 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 7.84 million if we extend that period to 3-months.

For United Airlines Holdings Inc (UAL), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.50. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 19 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 2 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 17 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.

United Airlines Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UAL) trade information

Upright in the green during last session for gaining 4.65%, in the last five days UAL remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Thursday, 03/27/25 when the stock touched $71.37 price level, adding 7.8% to its value on the day. United Airlines Holdings Inc’s shares saw a change of -26.50% in year-to-date performance and have moved -8.35% in past 5-day. United Airlines Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UAL) showed a performance of -17.21% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 16.33 million shares which calculate 1.7 days to cover the short interests.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 95 to the stock, which implies a rise of 24.87% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 80 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 140. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -12.09% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -12.09% for stock’s current value.

Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of -3.98% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 17.39% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 13.55%.

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

Insiders are in possession of 0.54% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 88.85 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 89.33%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 88.85% institutions for United Airlines Holdings Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at UAL for having 36.21 million shares of worth $1.76 billion. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 11.031 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is PRIMECAP MANAGEMENT CO/CA/, which was holding about 23.73 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 7.217 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $1.15 billion.