NYSE:DAL - Delta Air Lines Stock Price, Forecast & News

Delta Air Lines trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "DAL."

Delta Air Lines announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, October 10th. Investors of record on Thursday, October 24th will be paid a dividend of $0.403 per share on Thursday, November 14th. This represents a $1.61 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.74%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, October 23rd. This is a positive change from Delta Air Lines's previous quarterly dividend of $0.40. View Delta Air Lines' Dividend History.

Delta Air Lines, Inc. (NYSE:DAL) announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, January, 14th. The transportation company reported $1.70 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.40 by $0.30. The transportation company earned $11.44 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $11.37 billion. Delta Air Lines had a net margin of 10.14% and a return on equity of 33.28%. The firm's revenue was up 6.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $1.30 EPS. View Delta Air Lines' Earnings History.

Delta Air Lines is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 8th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Delta Air Lines.

Delta Air Lines issued an update on its FY20 earnings guidance on Tuesday, January, 14th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $6.75-7.75 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $7.19.

17 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Delta Air Lines' shares. Their forecasts range from $59.00 to $85.00. On average, they anticipate Delta Air Lines' share price to reach $67.29 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 14.4% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Delta Air Lines.

17 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Delta Air Lines in the last year. There are currently 7 hold ratings and 10 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Delta Air Lines.

Press coverage about DAL stock has been trending extremely negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Delta Air Lines earned a daily sentiment score of -4.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the transportation company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Delta Air Lines.

Delta Air Lines saw a decline in short interest in the month of December. As of December 13th, there was short interest totalling 17,920,000 shares, a decline of 7.1% from the November 28th total of 19,290,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 6,160,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.9 days. Approximately 2.8% of the company's shares are sold short. View Delta Air Lines' Current Options Chain.

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Delta Air Lines' stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Calamos Advisors LLC (0.22%), Tocqueville Asset Management L.P. (0.06%), Janney Capital Management LLC (0.06%), United Services Automobile Association (0.05%), Artemis Investment Management LLP (0.05%) and Country Trust Bank (0.05%). Company insiders that own Delta Air Lines stock include Berkshire Hathaway Inc, Craig M Meynard, Daniel A Carp, Edward H Bastian, Francis S Blake, George N Mattson, Glen W Hauenstein, Joanne D Smith, Michael P Huerta, Peter W Carter, Rahul D Samant, Steven M Sear, W Gilbert West, William C Carroll and William H Easter III. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Delta Air Lines.

DAL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of Michigan Retirement System, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, Artemis Investment Management LLP, Strs Ohio, Atalanta Sosnoff Capital LLC, Coronation Fund Managers Ltd., Calamos Advisors LLC and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. Company insiders that have sold Delta Air Lines company stock in the last year include Edward H Bastian, Glen W Hauenstein, Joanne D Smith, Michael P Huerta, Peter W Carter, Rahul D Samant, Steven M Sear, W Gilbert West and William C Carroll. View Insider Buying and Selling for Delta Air Lines.

DAL stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Exchange Traded Concepts LLC, Janney Capital Management LLC, Benson Investment Management Company Inc., Sciencast Management LP, Red Spruce Capital LLC, Wedge Capital Management L L P NC, Convergence Investment Partners LLC and Gradient Investments LLC. Company insiders that have bought Delta Air Lines stock in the last two years include Berkshire Hathaway Inc, Francis S Blake and George N Mattson. View Insider Buying and Selling for Delta Air Lines.

Shares of DAL 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 DAL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $58.81.

Delta Air Lines has a market capitalization of $38.03 billion and generates $47.01 billion in revenue each year. The transportation company earns $4.77 billion in net income (profit) each year or $7.31 on an earnings per share basis. Delta Air Lines employs 89,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Delta Air Lines.

The official website for Delta Air Lines is http://www.delta.com/.

Delta Air Lines' mailing address is 1030 DELTA BOULEVARD, ATLANTA GA, 30320. The transportation company can be reached via phone at 404-715-2600 or via email at [email protected]