NASDAQ:JBLU - JetBlue Airways Stock Price, News, Headlines & Rumors

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

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

JetBlue Airways Co. (NASDAQ:JBLU) announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, July, 24th. The transportation company reported $0.38 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates 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 firm's revenue was up 5.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous 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.

14 brokerages have issued 1-year target prices for JetBlue Airways' shares. Their forecasts range from $19.00 to $27.00. On average, they expect JetBlue Airways' stock price to reach $22.5769 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 22.0% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for JetBlue Airways.

14 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for JetBlue Airways in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 9 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for JetBlue Airways.

JetBlue Airways saw a drop in short interest in July. As of July 13th, there was short interest totalling 11,772,520 shares, a drop of 19.1% from the June 29th total of 14,556,910 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 3,291,319 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.6 days. Approximately 3.7% of the shares of the company are sold short. View JetBlue Airways' Current Options Chain.

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News headlines about JBLU stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. The research group identifies negative and positive news coverage by analyzing more than 20 million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. JetBlue Airways earned a coverage optimism score of 0.18 on Accern's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the transportation company an impact score of 47.57 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future. View Recent Headlines for JetBlue Airways.

JetBlue Airways' stock is owned by a variety of 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, Russell Investments Group Ltd. and Hodges Capital Management Inc.. 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 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 $18.50.

JetBlue Airways has a market capitalization of $5.77 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]