NASDAQ:UAL - United Continental Stock Price, Forecast & News

United Continental trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "UAL."

United Continental Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UAL) posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, January, 21st. The transportation company reported $2.67 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $2.64 by $0.03. The transportation company had revenue of $10.89 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $10.88 billion. United Continental's quarterly revenue was up 3.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $2.41 earnings per share. View United Continental's Earnings History.

United Continental is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, April 21st 2020. View Earnings Estimates for United Continental.

United Continental updated its FY 2020 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Wednesday, January, 22nd. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 11.00-13.00 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $12.70.

12 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price targets for United Continental's shares. Their forecasts range from $81.00 to $128.00. On average, they anticipate United Continental's share price to reach $108.40 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 36.3% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for United Continental.

12 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for United Continental in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 8 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for United Continental.

News coverage about UAL stock has trended somewhat positive on Sunday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm rates the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. United Continental earned a coverage optimism score of 2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the transportation company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for United Continental.

United Continental saw a drop in short interest in January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 12,040,000 shares, a drop of 11.3% from the January 15th total of 13,580,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,541,700 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.7 days. Approximately 4.8% of the shares of the company are sold short. View United Continental's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to United Continental include Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Alaska Air Group (ALK), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Copa (CPA), Delta Air Lines (DAL), Hawaiian (HA), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), SkyWest (SKYW) and Southwest Airlines (LUV).

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United Continental's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (3.17%), AQR Capital Management LLC (1.92%), Newport Trust Co (1.87%), LSV Asset Management (1.82%), Diamond Hill Capital Management Inc. (1.40%) and Renaissance Technologies LLC (1.32%). Company insiders that own United Continental stock include Carolyn Corvi, Edward Shapiro and Gregory L Hart. View Institutional Ownership Trends for United Continental.

UAL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Rockefeller Capital Management L.P., AJO LP, Calamos Advisors LLC, Strs Ohio, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Artemis Investment Management LLP, Assenagon Asset Management S.A. and Toronto Dominion Bank. Company insiders that have sold United Continental company stock in the last year include Carolyn Corvi and Gregory L Hart. View Insider Buying and Selling for United Continental.

UAL stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Renaissance Technologies LLC, FMR LLC, Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc., Teacher Retirement System of Texas, Schroder Investment Management Group, Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc., Trexquant Investment LP and Prudential Financial Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for United Continental.

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One share of UAL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $79.55.