United Continental Holdings (UAL) Is Today's Post-Market Loser Stock
Trade-Ideas LLC identified
(
) as a post-market laggard candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified United Continental Holdings as such a stock due to the following factors:
- UAL has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $245.9 million.
- UAL is down 2.1% today from today's close.
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More details on UAL:
United Continental Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides air transportation services in North America, the Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. UAL has a PE ratio of 3. Currently there are 10 analysts that rate United Continental Holdings a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 2 rate it a hold.
The average volume for United Continental Holdings has been 7.6 million shares per day over the past 30 days. United Continental has a market cap of $22.2 billion and is part of the services sector and transportation industry. The stock has a beta of 0.75 and a short float of 3.3% with 2.63 days to cover. Shares are down 11.4% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Thursday.
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Analysis:
rates United Continental Holdings as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, notable return on equity and attractive valuation levels. We feel its strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- Looking at where the stock is today compared to one year ago, we find that it is not only higher, but it has also clearly outperformed the rise in the S&P 500 over the same period. Although other factors naturally played a role, the company's strong earnings growth was key. Looking ahead, unless broad bear market conditions prevail, we still see more upside potential for this stock, despite the fact that it has already risen over the past year.
- UNITED CONTINENTAL HLDGS INC reported significant earnings per share improvement in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company has demonstrated a pattern of positive earnings per share growth over the past two years. We feel that this trend should continue. During the past fiscal year, UNITED CONTINENTAL HLDGS INC increased its bottom line by earning $2.79 versus $1.30 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($11.98 versus $2.79).
- The net income growth from the same quarter one year ago has significantly exceeded that of the S&P 500 and the Airlines industry. The net income increased by 421.2% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, rising from $924.00 million to $4,816.00 million.
- The company's current return on equity greatly increased when compared to its ROE from the same quarter one year prior. This is a signal of significant strength within the corporation. Compared to other companies in the Airlines industry and the overall market, UNITED CONTINENTAL HLDGS INC's return on equity significantly exceeds that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
- You can view the full United Continental Holdings Ratings Report.
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