United Airlines Holdings Inc (UAL): Are Investors Missing The Big Picture?

United Airlines Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UAL) does about 9.99M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 5501765 shares change hands in Monday trading. The company now has a market cap of 17.42B USD. Its current market price is $52.97, marking an increase of 0.25% compared to the previous close of $52.84. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $58.23 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $33.68.

United Airlines Holdings Inc (UAL) has a 20-day trading average at $47.23 and the current price is -9.03% off the 52-week high compared with 57.27% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $45.66 and its 200-day simple moving average is $44.12. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 3.23%, which increases to 4.10% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 67.43 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $67.68, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 21.73% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on March 20, 2024 when UBS initiated the stock to “Neutral” and issued a price target of $47. Redburn Atlantic downgraded the stock to “Neutral” from Buy on February 13, 2024 at a price target of $50. Evercore ISI upgraded its price target at $58-$65.

United Airlines Holdings Inc (UAL) stock is down -1.80% over the week and 10.63% over the past month. Its price is 28.38% year-to-date and 23.67% over the past year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 21.73 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of 6.83% and return on equity of 33.91%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 6.54 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 4.47. The beta has a value of 1.50. Price to book ratio is 1.90 and price to sales ratio is 0.32.