Alaska Air Group (ALK) Stock Forecast, Price & News

10 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Alaska Air Group in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 hold rating, 8 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" ALK shares.
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10 brokerages have issued twelve-month target prices for Alaska Air Group's stock. Their ALK share price forecasts range from $58.00 to $75.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $65.03 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 73.4% from the stock's current price.
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Alaska Air Group's stock was trading at $42.94 at the beginning of the year. Since then, ALK shares have decreased by 12.7% and is now trading at $37.50.
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Alaska Air Group saw a drop in short interest in the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totaling 4,050,000 shares, a drop of 7.7% from the August 15th total of 4,390,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,780,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.3 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October 19th 2023.
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Alaska Air Group, Inc. (NYSE:ALK) released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, July, 25th. The transportation company reported $3.00 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $2.71 by $0.29. The transportation company earned $2.84 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.77 billion. Alaska Air Group had a net margin of 1.55% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 19.66%. Alaska Air Group's quarterly revenue was up 6.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $2.19 earnings per share.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) stock in their portfolio include U.S. Global Jets ETF (JETS), American Customer Satisfaction ETF (ACSI), Invesco Leisure and Entertainment ETF (PEJ), iShares Focused Value Factor ETF (FOVL), SPDR S&P Transportation ETF (XTN), Defiance Hotel, Airline, and Cruise ETF (CRUZ), Invesco S&P 500 Pure Value ETF (RPV) and iShares U.S. Transportation ETF (IYT).

Alaska Air Group shares split before market open on Thursday, July 10th 2014. The 2-1 split was announced on Thursday, June 12th 2014. The newly minted shares were payable to shareholders after the closing bell on Wednesday, July 9th 2014. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

Alaska Air Group updated its third quarter 2023 earnings guidance on Wednesday, September, 13th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.86 billion-$2.88 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.88 billion.

391 employees have rated Alaska Air Group Chief Executive Officer Bradley D. Tilden on Glassdoor.com. Bradley D. Tilden has an approval rating of 85% among the company's employees.

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Alaska Air Group trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "ALK."

Alaska Air Group's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Victory Capital Management Inc. (6.28%), BlackRock Inc. (6.25%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (3.34%), State Street Corp (3.23%), LSV Asset Management (2.68%) and Boston Partners (2.21%). Insiders that own company stock include Andrea L Schneider, Andrea L Schneider, Andrew R Harrison, Benito Minicucci, Bradley D Tilden, Christopher Michael Berry, J Kenneth Thompson, Jessie J Knight Jr, Kyle B Levine and Shane R Tackett.
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One share of ALK stock can currently be purchased for approximately $37.50.

Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) has a market capitalization of $4.77 billion and generates $9.65 billion in revenue each year. The transportation company earns $58 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.23 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 25,469 workers across the globe.

Alaska Air Group's mailing address is 19300 INTERNATIONAL BOULEVARD, SEATTLE WA, 98188. The official website for the company is www.alaskaair.com. The transportation company can be reached via phone at (206) 392-5040, via email at lavanya.sareen@alaskaair.com, or via fax at 302-636-5454.