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

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

United Continental Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UAL) announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, July, 16th. The transportation company reported $4.21 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $4.07 by $0.14. The transportation company had revenue of $11.40 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $11.37 billion. United Continental had a return on equity of 29.33% and a net margin of 6.22%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 5.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $3.23 EPS. View United Continental's Earnings History.

United Continental is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, October 15th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for United Continental.

United Continental issued an update on its FY19 earnings guidance on Tuesday, July, 16th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $10.50-12.00 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $11.47.

17 brokers have issued 1 year target prices for United Continental's shares. Their forecasts range from $81.00 to $120.00. On average, they expect United Continental's stock price to reach $103.1250 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 22.7% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for United Continental.

17 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 13 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for United Continental.

Press coverage about UAL stock has trended positive on Tuesday, InfoTrie reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. United Continental earned a media sentiment score of 2.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the transportation company a news buzz of 6.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for United Continental.

United Continental saw a increase in short interest during the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 16,507,700 shares, an increase of 21.6% from the June 30th total of 13,572,800 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,490,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 6.6 days. Currently, 6.2% of the shares of the company are short sold. View United Continental's Current Options Chain.

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United Continental's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Primecap Management Co. CA (14.80%), Vanguard Group Inc. (8.01%), Par Capital Management Inc. (5.86%), BlackRock Inc. (5.39%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (4.77%) and Lansdowne Partners UK LLP (2.96%). Company insiders that own United Continental stock include Edward Shapiro, Gregory L Hart and Robert A Milton. View Institutional Ownership Trends for United Continental.

UAL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Morgan Stanley, AQR Capital Management LLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Par Capital Management Inc., Renaissance Technologies LLC, Nomura Holdings Inc., Putnam Investments LLC and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. View Insider Buying and Selling for United Continental.

UAL stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, APG Asset Management N.V., Calamos Advisors LLC, MUFG Securities EMEA plc, Allianz Asset Management GmbH, Bank of Montreal Can and Invesco Ltd.. Company insiders that have bought United Continental stock in the last two years include Edward Shapiro and Robert A Milton. 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of UAL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $84.03.

United Continental has a market capitalization of $21.59 billion and generates $41.30 billion in revenue each year. The transportation company earns $2.13 billion in net income (profit) each year or $9.13 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]