SkyWest (SKYW) Stock Price, News & Analysis

4 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for SkyWest in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" SKYW shares.
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4 equities research analysts have issued 1 year target prices for SkyWest's stock. Their SKYW share price targets range from $46.00 to $70.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $62.25 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 5.4%.
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SkyWest's stock was trading at $52.20 at the start of the year. Since then, SKYW shares have increased by 26.0% and is now trading at $65.78.
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SkyWest saw a increase in short interest during the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 2,130,000 shares, an increase of 22.4% from the March 15th total of 1,740,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 492,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 4.3 days. Currently, 5.4% of the company's stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 25th 2024.
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SkyWest will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, April 25th at 4:30 PM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 609-800-9909 with passcode "8322450#".

SkyWest, Inc. (NASDAQ:SKYW) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February, 1st. The transportation company reported $0.42 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.11 by $0.31. The transportation company had revenue of $751.80 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $758.41 million. SkyWest had a net margin of 1.17% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 1.59%. SkyWest's revenue for the quarter was up 10.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned ($0.93) earnings per share.

ETFs with the largest weight of SkyWest (NASDAQ:SKYW) stock in their portfolio include U.S. Global Jets ETF (JETS), Invesco Leisure and Entertainment ETF (PEJ), SPDR S&P Transportation ETF (XTN), Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows Growth Leaders ETF (CAFG), Invesco Dorsey Wright Consumer Cyclicals Momentum ETF (PEZ), Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF (CALF), Invesco S&P SmallCap Momentum ETF (XSMO) and Invesco S&P SmallCap Industrials ETF (PSCI).

290 employees have rated SkyWest Chief Executive Officer Chip Childs on Glassdoor.com. Chip Childs has an approval rating of 87% among the company's employees.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other SkyWest investors own include Hawkins (HWKN), Delta Air Lines (DAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), United Airlines (UAL), Micron Technology (MU), Xtrackers California Municipal Bond ETF (CA), American Airlines Group (AAL), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Bank of America (BAC) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ).

SkyWest's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Counterpoint Mutual Funds LLC (0.02%) and Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.02%). Insiders that own company stock include James L Welch, Jerry C Atkin, Robert J Simmons and Wade J Steel.
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