NASDAQ:JBLU - JetBlue Airways Stock Price, News, & Analysis

JetBlue Airways trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "JBLU."

JetBlue Airways announced that its Board of Directors has approved a share repurchase program on Friday, December 15th 2017, which authorizes the company to buyback $750,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are often a sign that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

JetBlue Airways Co. (NASDAQ:JBLU) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, July, 24th. The transportation company reported $0.38 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.36 by $0.02. The transportation company had revenue of $1.93 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.93 billion. JetBlue Airways had a net margin of 11.30% and a return on equity of 10.80%. The business's revenue was up 5.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $0.64 EPS. View JetBlue Airways' Earnings History.

JetBlue Airways is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, October, 23rd 2018. View Earnings Estimates for JetBlue Airways.

13 brokers have issued 12-month price targets for JetBlue Airways' stock. Their forecasts range from $19.00 to $27.00. On average, they expect JetBlue Airways' share price to reach $22.2917 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 12.0% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for JetBlue Airways.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for JetBlue Airways in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 8 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for JetBlue Airways.

JetBlue Airways saw a decrease in short interest in August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 8,539,324 shares, a decrease of 40.1% from the August 15th total of 14,260,398 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 4,473,729 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.9 days. Currently, 2.7% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View JetBlue Airways' Current Options Chain.

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Media coverage about JBLU stock has trended somewhat positive recently, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group identifies negative and positive press coverage by monitoring more than 20 million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. JetBlue Airways earned a daily sentiment score of 0.18 on Accern's scale. They also gave news headlines about the transportation company an impact score of 46.57 out of 100, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View Recent Headlines for JetBlue Airways.

JetBlue Airways' stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (8.40%), FMR LLC (4.65%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (3.68%), LSV Asset Management (2.41%), Donald Smith & CO. Inc. (2.22%) and Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC (1.72%). Company insiders that own JetBlue Airways stock include Alexander Chatkewitz, George Martin J St, James G Hnat, Joel Clinton Peterson and Robin Hayes. View Institutional Ownership Trends for JetBlue Airways.

JBLU stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Millennium Management LLC, Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC, Quantum Capital Management, Bank of America Corp DE, Schroder Investment Management Group and Schroder Investment Management Group. Company insiders that have sold JetBlue Airways company stock in the last year include Alexander Chatkewitz, George Martin J St, James G Hnat, Joel Clinton Peterson and Robin Hayes. View Insider Buying and Selling for JetBlue Airways.

JBLU stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Donald Smith & CO. Inc., Renaissance Technologies LLC, LSV Asset Management, Point72 Asset Management L.P., Bank of Montreal Can, First Quadrant L P CA, Thompson Siegel & Walmsley LLC and Aperio Group LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for JetBlue Airways.

Shares of JBLU can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of JBLU stock can currently be purchased for approximately $19.91.

JetBlue Airways has a market capitalization of $6.22 billion and generates $7.02 billion in revenue each year. The transportation company earns $1.15 billion in net income (profit) each year or $1.71 on an earnings per share basis. JetBlue Airways employs 19,978 workers across the globe.

JetBlue Airways' mailing address is 27-01 QUEENS PLAZA NORTH, LONG ISLAND CITY NY, 11101. The transportation company can be reached via phone at 718-286-7900 or via email at [email protected]