Alaska Air Group - ALK Stock Forecast, Price & News

9 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Alaska Air Group in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 8 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" ALK shares.
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9 brokerages have issued 1-year target prices for Alaska Air Group's stock. Their ALK share price forecasts range from $45.00 to $103.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $66.44 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 45.3% from the stock's current price.
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Alaska Air Group's stock was trading at $52.10 at the start of the year. Since then, ALK shares have decreased by 12.2% and is now trading at $45.73.
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Alaska Air Group saw a decrease in short interest in the month of July. As of July 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,300,000 shares, a decrease of 22.5% from the June 30th total of 4,260,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,890,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.7 days. Approximately 2.7% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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Alaska Air Group is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October 20th 2022.
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Alaska Air Group, Inc. (NYSE:ALK) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, July, 21st. The transportation company reported $2.19 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.95 by $0.24. The transportation company had revenue of $2.66 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.58 billion. Alaska Air Group had a net margin of 2.54% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 8.97%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 74.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted ($0.30) earnings per share.
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Alaska Air Group shares split on Thursday, July 10th 2014. The 2-1 split was announced on Thursday, June 12th 2014. The newly minted shares were distributed 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 issued an update on its third quarter 2022 earnings guidance on Friday, July, 29th. The company provided EPS guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.77 billion-$2.84 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.66 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 institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Victory Capital Management Inc. (4.93%), RWC Asset Management LLP (0.83%), Russell Investments Group Ltd. (0.44%), Deroy & Devereaux Private Investment Counsel Inc. (0.38%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.32%) and Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.26%). Insiders that own company stock include Andrea L Schneider, Andrea L Schneider, Andrew R Harrison, Benito Minicucci, Bradley D Tilden, Brandon Pedersen, Chalmers David, Christopher Michael Berry, Helvi Kay Sandvik, J Kenneth Thompson, Jessie J Knight Jr, Joseph A Sprague, Kyle B Levine and Shane R Tackett.
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One share of ALK stock can currently be purchased for approximately $45.73.

Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) has a market capitalization of $5.77 billion and generates $6.18 billion in revenue each year. The transportation company earns $478 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.62 on an earnings per share basis.

Alaska Air Group employs 22,833 workers across the globe.

Alaska Air Group was founded in 1932.

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.