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) released its earnings results on Tuesday, January, 21st. The transportation company reported $2.67 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $2.64 by $0.03. The transportation company earned $10.89 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $10.88 billion. United Continental had a return on equity of 29.16% and a net margin of 6.96%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 3.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $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 EPS guidance of 11.00-13.00 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $12.70.

12 equities research analysts have issued 12-month price targets for United Continental's shares. Their forecasts range from $81.00 to $128.00. On average, they expect United Continental's share price to reach $108.40 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 35.1% 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.

Press coverage about UAL stock has been trending very positive recently, InfoTrie reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. United Continental earned a news impact score of 3.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the transportation company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for United Continental.

United Continental saw a drop in short interest in the month of 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. Currently, 4.8% of the shares of the company are short sold. View United Continental's Current Options Chain.

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

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United Continental's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional 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, Janus Henderson Group PLC and Assenagon Asset Management S.A.. 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 purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Renaissance Technologies LLC, FMR LLC, Alberta Investment Management Corp, Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc., Teacher Retirement System of Texas, Schroder Investment Management Group, Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc. and Trexquant Investment LP. View Insider Buying and Selling for United Continental.

Shares of UAL 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 UAL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $80.24.

United Continental has a market capitalization of $20.30 billion and generates $43.26 billion in revenue each year. The transportation company earns $3.01 billion in net income (profit) each year or $12.05 on an earnings per share basis. United Continental employs 92,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About United Continental.

The official website for United Continental is http://www.united.com/.

United Continental's mailing address is 233 SOUTH WACKER DRIVE, CHICAGO IL, 60606. The transportation company can be reached via phone at 872-825-4000 or via email at [email protected]