With 9.07 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 11.82 million shares. During the session, the Airlines company that operates in wider Industrials sector, reached to the highest price of $40.1818 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $38.8. The 52-week range on DAL shows that it touched its highest point at $69.98 and its lowest point at $34.74 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $57.60. With its current market cap of 25.77 billion, DAL has annualized dividend of $0.55 while the current yield stands at 1.39%. DAL paid its most recent dividend on 1740614400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1740614400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.44.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of DAL was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -3.45%, but this was down by -15.93% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -40.03% while six-month performance fell -29.91%. The stock lost -17.56% in the past year, while it has lost -34.76% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for DAL yields 5.64 with Next year EPS estimates of 6.62. For the next quarter, that number is 2.00. This implies an EPS growth rate of -13.35% for this year and 24.10% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 7.78% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -6.08%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 652.96 million DAL shares are outstanding with a float of 650.23 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 23.01 million, which was 356.0 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. Edward H. Bastian as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. Glen William Hauenstein serves as its President.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.82068 of DAL’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2025-03-31, DAL reported revenue of $14040000000.0 and operating income of $569000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $539000000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.37.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for DAL since 19 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 17 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 1 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With DAL analysts setting a high price target of 88.0 and a low target of 36.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 55.67136. Based on these targets, DAL could surge 122.95% to reach the target high and fall by -8.79% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 41.05% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $6.17285 being high and $6.04194 being low. For DAL, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $6.11243. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.96 and the low estimate is $0.95. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.36.
