But there's a silver lining: This time around, the impact doesn't seem as dire. While travelers' fear over the Delta variant "may continue to drive a choppy recovery," says Raymond James analyst Savanthi Syth, the risks are seen as abating "particularly due to increasing vaccine penetration," albeit with regional differences.
Travel trends are getting brighter: Flight bookings and yield trends for the second half of the year and first quarter of are "tracking fairly positive," says Susquehanna analyst Christopher Stathoulopoulos. This suggests that traveler confidence "has not meaningfully eroded" despite the resurgence of COVID cases, he adds. Tellingly, airlines also are signaling via their spending that they're less fearful. In the second quarter, the industry shifted from cash conservation to investing "precious capital" for the future as the pandemic waned, especially in the U.
Read on as we take a closer look at how nine airline stocks look amid this rocky road to recovery. Not all carriers are created equal; the best airline stocks are flying on far sturdier wings than their peers.
We'll look to identify the strongest candidates. But its financials, although not out of the woods, began improving. In June, Fitch raised its outlook for the carrier to Stable from Negative to reflect its improved finances, passenger traffic rebound and a potential lift for the industry as more people get vaccinated.
Currently, American is taking steps to get its house in order by reducing debt and spending. Syth has a Market Perform rating on the stock, which is equivalent to a Hold. The carrier's moves come in light of its forecast for a third-quarter loss, which "is not encouraging," Syth notes.
As far as airline stocks go, most analysts are lukewarm toward this one. However, as international travel wilted during the pandemic, one saving grace for United has been its practice of tightly managing costs, which helped it get through a sharp drop in business last year. He says that United surprised Wall Street recently by forecasting positive adjusted pre-tax income for the third and fourth quarters. The consensus was a third-quarter loss, as was his projection. United's outlook for international and business travel is for Europe to recover in as more borders reopen while Asia is further out, in Another positive note: Business travel trends at United, although still weak, are improving.
Jefferies analyst Sheila Kahyaoglu, however, has a Hold rating on the airline stock. While United is "poised to be the first U. This is due to its ability to attract the most profitable business travelers — thanks to a cabin-segmentation strategy and its co-branded credit card partnerships, mainly American Express AXP , Morningstar analyst Burkett Huey says.
The airline's "five-cabin segmentation" strategy gives high-spending travelers the option to upgrade to more luxurious options when they can. Also, Delta gets "top dollar" when it sells miles to American Express, which, in turn, awards it to cardholders. No investing minimums. Plus no add-on trading commission fees. Custom investment recommendations can help you diversify.
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Cartenna Capital is also relatively very bullish on the stock, dishing out 1. These transactions are intriguing to say the least, as aggregate hedge fund interest dropped by 7 funds last quarter.
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