SkyWest (SKYW) Stock Price, News & Analysis

4 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for SkyWest in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 hold rating and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" SKYW shares.
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4 brokerages have issued 12 month target prices for SkyWest's stock. Their SKYW share price targets range from $46.00 to $70.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $62.25 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 9.0%.
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SkyWest's stock was trading at $52.20 at the start of the year. Since then, SKYW stock has increased by 31.1% and is now trading at $68.43.
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SkyWest saw a increase in short interest in 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 trading volume of 492,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 4.3 days. Currently, 5.4% of the company's stock are short sold.
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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) issued its earnings results on Thursday, February, 1st. The transportation company reported $0.42 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.11 by $0.31. The transportation company had revenue of $751.80 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $758.41 million. SkyWest had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 1.59% and a net margin of 1.17%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 10.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted ($0.93) EPS.

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 number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.06%), Counterpoint Mutual Funds LLC (0.02%), Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.02%), Harbour Capital Advisors LLC (0.01%) and Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.01%). Insiders that own company stock include James L Welch, Jerry C Atkin, Robert J Simmons and Wade J Steel.
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Shares of SKYW stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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