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

United Continental trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "UAL."

United Continental declared that its Board of Directors has authorized a share buyback plan on Friday, December 8th 2017, which authorizes the company to repurchase $3,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are usually an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

United Continental Holdings Inc (NYSE:UAL) released its earnings results on Tuesday, October, 16th. The transportation company reported $3.06 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $3.07 by $0.01. The transportation company had revenue of $11 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $10.95 billion. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 11.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business earned $2.22 earnings per share. View United Continental's Earnings History.

United Continental is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, January 22nd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for United Continental.

United Continental issued an update on its FY18 earnings guidance on Tuesday, October, 16th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $8.00-8.75 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $8.16.

15 brokers have issued twelve-month price objectives for United Continental's shares. Their forecasts range from $94.00 to $130.00. On average, they anticipate United Continental's stock price to reach $102.9231 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 11.6% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for United Continental.

15 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for United Continental in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings and 10 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for United Continental.

Headlines about UAL stock have been trending positive on Sunday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group identifies negative and positive media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. United Continental earned a coverage optimism score of 3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the transportation company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term.

United Continental saw a increase in short interest during the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totalling 15,446,834 shares, an increase of 38.9% from the October 15th total of 11,124,001 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 4,954,570 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.1 days. Currently, 5.7% of the shares of the company are sold short. View United Continental's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to United Continental include Delta Air Lines (DAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), Ryanair (RYAAY), American Airlines Group (AAL), Deutsche Lufthansa (DLAKY), China Eastern Airlines Corp. Ltd. ADR Class H (CEA), Azul (AZUL), Alaska Air Group (ALK), Intl Cons Airl/S (ICAGY), China Southern Airlines (ZNH), easyJet (EJTTF), LATAM Airlines Group (LTM), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), CATHAY Pac AIRW/S (CPCAY) and Air France-KLM (AFLYY).

United Continental's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Primecap Management Co. CA (14.08%), BlackRock Inc. (6.38%), Lansdowne Partners UK LLP (1.92%), Newport Trust Co (1.84%), Capital World Investors (1.79%) and LSV Asset Management (1.64%). Company insiders that own United Continental stock include Andrew C Levy, Edward Shapiro, Gregory L Hart, Michael P Bonds, Robert A Milton and Walter Isaacson. View Institutional Ownership Trends for United Continental.

UAL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., Diamond Hill Capital Management Inc., Capital World Investors, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC, Calamos Advisors LLC, Strs Ohio and United Services Automobile Association. View Insider Buying and Selling for United Continental.

UAL stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Lansdowne Partners UK LLP, Ashler Capital LLC, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Bank of Montreal Can, AQR Capital Management LLC, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Great West Life Assurance Co. Can and Worldquant Millennium Quantitative Strategies LLC. Company insiders that have bought United Continental stock in the last two years include Andrew C Levy, 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 $92.26.

The official website for United Continental is newsroom.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]