Alaska Air Group (ALK) Stock Price, News & Analysis

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Alaska Air Group in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" ALK shares.
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10 analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Alaska Air Group's stock. Their ALK share price targets range from $40.00 to $70.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $57.44 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 39.6% from the stock's current price.
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Alaska Air Group's stock was trading at $39.07 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, ALK shares have increased by 5.3% and is now trading at $41.15.
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Alaska Air Group saw a increase in short interest during the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 6,020,000 shares, an increase of 31.7% from the March 15th total of 4,570,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,480,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.4 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 18th 2024.
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Alaska Air Group will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, April 18th at 11:30 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Alaska Air Group, Inc. (NYSE:ALK) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, January, 25th. The transportation company reported $0.30 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.18 by $0.12. The transportation company had revenue of $2.55 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.53 billion. Alaska Air Group had a net margin of 2.25% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 14.72%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 3.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.92 EPS.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) stock in their portfolio include U.S. Global Jets ETF (JETS), American Customer Satisfaction ETF (ACSI), SPDR S&P Transportation ETF (XTN), Invesco S&P SmallCap Industrials ETF (PSCI), iShares Focused Value Factor ETF (FOVL), Defiance Hotel, Airline, and Cruise ETF (CRUZ), SPDR S&P 600 Small CapValue ETF (SLYV) and Direxion Daily Travel & Vacation Bull 2X Shares (OOTO).

Alaska Air Group shares split on the morning of Thursday, July 10th 2014. The 2-1 split was announced on Thursday, June 12th 2014. The newly minted shares were payable to shareholders after the closing bell on Wednesday, July 9th 2014. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

Alaska Air Group updated its first quarter earnings guidance on Thursday, April, 4th. The company provided EPS guidance of $(1.15)-(1.05) for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of ($0.91).

391 employees have rated Alaska Air Group Chief Executive Officer Bradley D. Tilden on Glassdoor.com. Bradley D. Tilden has an approval rating of 85% among the company's employees.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Alaska Air Group investors own include Delta Air Lines (DAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), NVIDIA (NVDA), Walt Disney (DIS), Bank of America (BAC), Boeing (BA), Gilead Sciences (GILD), CVS Health (CVS), Intel (INTC) and Netflix (NFLX).

Alaska Air Group's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include ARGA Investment Management LP (0.18%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.12%), Alaska Permanent Fund Corp (0.05%), Executive Wealth Group LLC (0.03%), IMC Chicago LLC (0.00%) and Washington Capital Management Inc. (0.01%). Insiders that own company stock include Andrea L Schneider, Andrea L Schneider, Andrew R Harrison, Benito Minicucci, Bradley D Tilden, J Kenneth Thompson, Jessie J Knight Jr and Shane R Tackett.
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