Delta Air Lines Inc (DAL): Today's Featured Transportation Winner

Delta Air Lines (DAL) pushed the Transportation industry higher today making it today's featured transportation winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.3%. By the end of trading, Delta Air Lines rose 8 cents (0.9%) to $9.37 on light volume. Throughout the day, 8.1 million shares of Delta Air Lines exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 13.2 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $9.26-$9.43 after having opened the day at $9.31 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $9.29. Other companies within the Transportation industry that increased today were: Republic Airways Holdings (RJET), up 6.8%, DHT Holdings (DHT), up 6%, Gol Intelligent Airlines (GOL), up 5.9%, and Seanergy Maritime Holdings (SHIP), up 5.4%.

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Delta Air Lines, Inc. provides scheduled air transportation for passengers and cargo in the United States and internationally. The company operates at airports in Amsterdam, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Detroit, Memphis, Minneapolis-St. Delta Air Lines has a market cap of $7.85 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 8.4, equal to the average transportation industry P/E ratio and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 17.2% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are nine analysts that rate Delta Air Lines a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and two rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Delta Air Lines as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and solid stock price performance. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including unimpressive growth in net income, poor profit margins and weak operating cash flow.

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On the negative front, DS Torm (TRMD), down 11.3%, FreightCar America (RAIL), down 8.7%, Newlead Holdings (NEWL), down 8.5%, and Ultrapetrol Bahamas (ULTR), down 3.9%, were all laggards within the transportation industry with Kansas City Southern (KSU) being today's transportation industry laggard.

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