NASDAQ:SKYWSkyWest Stock Price, Forecast & News

SkyWest's stock was trading at $35.73 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, SKYW shares have decreased by 11.7% and is now trading at $31.56.
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8 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for SkyWest in the last year. There are currently 7 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."
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SkyWest is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, November 4th 2020.
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SkyWest, Inc. (NASDAQ:SKYW) released its earnings results on Thursday, July, 30th. The transportation company reported ($0.51) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of ($0.02) by $0.49. The transportation company earned $350.04 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $352.43 million. SkyWest had a net margin of 6.51% and a return on equity of 7.82%.
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SkyWest declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, February 4th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, March 31st will be paid a dividend of $0.14 per share on Monday, April 6th. This represents a $0.56 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.77%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, March 30th. This is a positive change from SkyWest's previous quarterly dividend of $0.12.
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8 equities research analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for SkyWest's stock. Their forecasts range from $40.00 to $75.00. On average, they expect SkyWest's share price to reach $55.86 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 77.0% from the stock's current price.
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Headlines about SKYW stock have trended negative on Saturday, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. SkyWest earned a daily sentiment score of -2.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media headlines about the transportation company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future.
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SkyWest saw a increase in short interest in February. As of February 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,140,000 shares, an increase of 28.8% from the January 31st total of 884,800 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 295,800 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.9 days. Currently, 2.3% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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Some companies that are related to SkyWest include Southwest Airlines (LUV), Delta Air Lines (DAL), United Continental (UAL), Alaska Air Group (ALK), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Copa (CPA), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Spirit Airlines (SAVE) and Hawaiian (HA).
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other SkyWest investors own include Hawkins (HWKN), Delta Air Lines (DAL), United Continental (UAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), Micron Technology (MU), American Airlines Group (AAL), CA (CA), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Bank of America (BAC) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM).

SkyWest trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "SKYW."

SkyWest's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (10.62%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (4.29%), U S Global Investors Inc. (2.81%), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (2.22%), LSV Asset Management (2.05%) and Macquarie Group Ltd. (1.74%). Company insiders that own SkyWest stock include Jerry C Atkin, Michael B Thompson, Robert J Simmons, Russell A Childs, Terry Vais, W Steve Albrecht and Wade J Steel.
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SKYW stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Victory Capital Management Inc., Vanguard Group Inc., Par Capital Management Inc., Bank of America Corp DE, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., WINTON GROUP Ltd, and Principal Financial Group Inc.. Company insiders that have sold SkyWest company stock in the last year include Jerry C Atkin, Michael B Thompson, and Wade J Steel.
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SKYW stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including U S Global Investors Inc., Prudential Financial Inc., Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC, Man Group plc, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Raymond James Financial Services Advisors Inc., Mackay Shields LLC, and Denali Advisors LLC. Company insiders that have bought SkyWest stock in the last two years include Jerry C Atkin, Robert J Simmons, and W Steve Albrecht.
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Shares of SKYW 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, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of SKYW stock can currently be purchased for approximately $31.56.

SkyWest has a market capitalization of $1.58 billion and generates $2.97 billion in revenue each year. The transportation company earns $340.10 million in net income (profit) each year or $6.25 on an earnings per share basis. SkyWest employs 13,700 workers across the globe.

The official website for SkyWest is inc.skywest.com.

SkyWest's mailing address is 444 South River Road, St. George UT, 84790. The transportation company can be reached via phone at 435-634-3000 or via email at [email protected]