NASDAQ:JBLU - JetBlue Airways Stock Price, Price Target & More

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

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

JetBlue Airways Co. (NASDAQ:JBLU) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, April, 24th. The transportation company reported $0.27 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.22 by $0.05. The transportation company earned $1.75 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.76 billion. JetBlue Airways had a return on equity of 13.10% and a net margin of 16.05%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 9.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $0.25 EPS. View JetBlue Airways' Earnings History.

JetBlue Airways is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, July, 24th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for JetBlue Airways.

13 brokerages have issued 12 month price objectives for JetBlue Airways' stock. Their predictions range from $20.00 to $31.00. On average, they anticipate JetBlue Airways' share price to reach $23.2917 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for JetBlue Airways.

JetBlue Airways saw a increase in short interest in May. As of May 31st, there was short interest totalling 22,337,665 shares, an increase of 60.7% from the May 15th total of 13,901,513 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 5,100,176 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 4.4 days. Currently, 7.1% of the shares of the company are sold short. View JetBlue Airways' Current Options Chain.

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Media coverage about JBLU stock has trended somewhat positive recently, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. Accern identifies positive and negative media coverage by reviewing more than twenty million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. JetBlue Airways earned a daily sentiment score of 0.11 on Accern's scale. They also gave news articles about the transportation company an impact score of 46.66 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days.

JetBlue Airways' stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (8.28%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (3.62%), LSV Asset Management (2.02%), Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC (1.77%), Disciplined Growth Investors Inc. MN (1.49%) and Donald Smith & CO. Inc. (1.33%). 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 Thompson Siegel & Walmsley LLC, Hsbc Holdings PLC, Systematic Financial Management LP, State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, Millennium Management LLC, BNP Paribas Arbitrage SA, Allianz Asset Management GmbH and Allianz Asset Management GmbH. 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Darrell & King LLC, LSV Asset Management, Seven Eight Capital LP, BlackRock Inc., Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC, Summit Trail Advisors LLC, Earnest Partners LLC and OMERS ADMINISTRATION Corp. 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 $18.98.

JetBlue Airways has a market capitalization of $6.02 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]