Analyst Predictions On Delta Air Lines Inc.’s (NYSE: DAL) Future Growth

Delta Air Lines Inc. (NYSE:DAL) price closed lower on Monday, September 18, dropping -1.70% below its previous close.

A look at the daily price movement shows that the last close reads $39.90, with intraday deals fluctuated between $39.11 and $40.11. The company’s P/E ratio in the trailing 12-month period read 8.43. Taking into account the 52-week price action we note that the stock hit a 52-week high of $49.81 and 52-week low of $27.20. The stock subtracted -6.13% on its value in the past month.

Delta Air Lines Inc., which has a market valuation of $24.87 billion. The company stock has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.40, while the dividend yield is 1.02%. It is understandable that investor optimism is growing ahead of the company’s current quarter results.

Revisions to the company’s EPS highlights a short term direction of a stock’s price movement, which in the last 7 days came up with no upward and no downward reviews. On the technical perspective front, indicators give DAL a short term outlook of Hold on average. Looking at the stock’s medium term indicators we note that it is averaging as a 50% Buy, while an average of long term indicators are currently assigning the stock as Hold.

Here is a look at the average analyst rating for the stock as represented on a scale of 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock is strong buy or strong sell respectively. Specifically, 21 analysts have assigned DAL a recommendation rating as follows: 0 rate it as a Hold; 18 advise Buy while 2 analyst(s) assign an Overweight rating. 1 analyst(s) have tagged the Delta Air Lines Inc. (DAL) stock as Underweight, with 0 recommending Sell. In general, analysts have rated the stock Buy, a scenario likely to bolster investors out for an opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.

If we dive deeper into the stock’s performance we see the positive picture represented by the PEG ratio, currently standing at 0.23. The overview shows that DAL’s price is at present -5.67% off the SMA20 and -11.41% from the SMA50. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) metric on the 14-day timeframe is pointing at 29.83, with weekly volatility standing at 2.17%. The indicator jumps to 2.24% when calculated based on the past 30 days. Delta Air Lines Inc. (NYSE:DAL)’s beta value is holding at 1.31, while the average true range (ATR) indicator is currently reading 1.00. Considering analysts have assigned the stock a price target range of $48.00-$77.00 as the low and high respectively, we find the trailing 12-month average consensus price target to be $60.17. Based on this estimate, we see that current price is roughly -22.39% off the estimated low and -96.33% off the forecast high. Investors will no doubt be excited to see the share price fall to $60.00, which is the median consensus price, and at that level DAL would be -52.98% from current price.

Turning out attention to how the Delta Air Lines Inc. stock has performed in comparison to its peers in the industry, here’s what we find: DAL’s stock is -1.70% on the day and 17.85% in the past 12 months, while Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV) traded -1.30% in the last session and was positioned -20.58% down on its price 12 months ago. Another comparison is with United Airlines Holdings Inc. (UAL) whose stock price was down -2.57% in the last trading session, and has flourished 14.46% over the past year. Also, American Airlines Group Inc. (AAL) showed down trend of -1.47% while its price kept floating at -8.09% over the past year. As for Delta Air Lines Inc., the P/E ratio stands at 8.43 lower than that of Southwest Airlines Co.’s at 33.92 and United Airlines Holdings Inc.’s 5.58. Elsewhere in the market, the S&P 500 Index has rallied 0.03% in last trading session, with the Dow Jones Industrial also saw a positive session on the day with 0.03%.

An analysis of the Delta Air Lines Inc. (NYSE:DAL) stock in terms of its daily trading volume indicates that the 3-month average is 9.68 million. However, this figure increases on the past 10-day timeline to an average of 8.38 million.

Current records show that the company has 643.42M in outstanding shares. The insiders’ percentage holdings are 0.20% of outstanding shares while the percentage share held by institutions stands at 67.50%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of Aug 30, 2023, stood at 14.01 million shares, which puts the short ratio at the time at 2.2. From this we can glean that short interest is 2.18% of company’s current outstanding shares. Notably, we see that shares short in August fall slightly given the previous month’s figure stood at 15.35 million. But the 19.36% upside, the stock’s price has registered year-to-date as of last trading, will likely reignite investor interest given the prospect of it rallying even higher.