Are Analysts Too Bullish On Jetblue Airways Corp (JBLU)

Jetblue Airways Corp (NASDAQ:JBLU) currently has a daily average trading volume of 21.07M but it saw 14685403 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 2.12B USD, the company’s current market price of $6.12 came falling about -0.97 while comparing to the previous closing price of $6.18. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $8.31 and as low as $4.49. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $6.11 while lowest mark touched by it was $6.35.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Jetblue Airways Corp (JBLU) gives us an average price of $7.21, while its current price level is -26.35% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 36.15% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $7.07 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $6.22. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 6.56% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 6.36%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 36.71 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

BofA Securities downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Underperform” from “Neutral” on January 17, 2025 while assigning a price target of $6.50. Morgan Stanley issued its recommendations for the stock as it resumed the price target for the stock is $8.

Over the week, JBLU’s stock price is moving 0.33% up while it is -18.51% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -22.14% down and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 6.62%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in March, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of -0.62 while estimate for next year EPS is -0.74. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $2.57B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $9.72B and seeing the company making $10.34B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $2.19B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Jetblue Airways Corp’s total number of outstanding shares is 346.88M with 10.52% of that held by the insiders while 84.66% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at -7.11% and return on equity (ROE) at -26.60%. Stock’s beta reads 1.82. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.80 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.23. Its return on asset (ROA) is -4.94% on average.