Jetblue Airways Corp (JBLU) saw downtrend of -4.35% in the recent trading with $4.4 being its most recent. The current price level -47.05% lower than the highest price of $8.31 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 31.74% higher than the lowest price of $3.34 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on JBLU appeared in (Yahoo Finance) under the title “CEO: AI and defense demand are remaking the space economy”.
Do analysts rate it as a buy, sell or hold?
Irrespective of recent performance, what’s important is what the future holds. In uncertain economic times, a clear picture is difficult to get. Analysts generally have a good understanding of the market works, which gives them a leg up in making predictions. Currently, the stock has been recommended as Hold by 9 of the brokerage firms. Analyst ratings are often compiled into a single score from 1 to 5. The score of 1 signifies buy or strong buy, the score of 2 signifies outperform, the score of 3 means hold, and the score of 4 indicates underperform. The simple numeric range of brokerage firm referenced at the scale of 1 to 5 reads a current average recommendation of 3.81 for the stock.
Jetblue Airways Corp Earnings – What Happened With JBLU
Coming around sales and income figures on JBLU Stock Income Statement, public trading companies under normal circumstances post earnings and revenues near to average estimates by the Wall Street analysts, but those could came either above or below estimates and known as surprise factor. Jetblue Airways Corp (JBLU) last released financial results for the quarter that ended 9/30/2024, posting a surprise factor of 25.31% for net revenue.
JBLU – Jetblue Airways Corp Stock Earnings Estimates
The perspective of Jetblue Airways Corp (NASDAQ:JBLU)’s current quarter earnings identifies that analysts are in consensus over the estimate of -0.21 for stock’s EPS in the current quarter. Jetblue Airways Corp (JBLU) last released financial results for the quarter that ended 9/30/2024, posting a surprise factor of 25.31% for net revenue. Company’s EPS for the last quarter was -0.16.
Jetblue Airways Corp – Insider Activity and Holdings
Investors get the exact data about the key information of institutional ownership in a listed company through its 13F filings at the Stock Exchange Commission (SEC). The total number of common shares currently owned by the public is 364.00 million. JBLU does have institutional investors; and they hold 67.20% of the stock.
As on 2024-06-30, BLACKROCK INC. was the top most holder in Jetblue Airways Corp (NASDAQ:JBLU) with an ownership of 55.28 million shares of the company or 16.0197 of the stake worth $336.68 million. The filing also reveals VANGUARD GROUP INC as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 10.3831 of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $218.22 million for having 35.83 million shares in hand.
DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 5.1806 of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 420.0 institutions which have possession in JBLU’s shares.
Key Metrics for JBLU
The liquidity is a key characteristic of any stock and is the main point of focus of both short-term as well as long term investors before start trading into a stock. In recently reported quarter, Jetblue Airways Corp has a debt to equity ratio of 3.91.
