UAL|Earnings Snapshot
EPS
| Qtr | Est | Actual | +/− |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q3'26 | $2.93 | - | - |
| Q2'26 | $1.89 | $1.99 | +5.0% |
| Q1'26 | $1.09 | $1.19 | +8.9% |
| Q4'25 | $2.97 | $3.10 | +4.5% |
| Q3'25 | $2.68 | $2.78 | +3.8% |
| Q2'25 | $3.81 | $3.87 | +1.5% |
Revenue
| Qtr | Est | Actual | +/− |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q3'26 | $17.8B | - | - |
| Q2'26 | $17.8B | $17.7B | -0.7% |
| Q1'26 | $14.4B | $14.6B | +1.6% |
| Q4'25 | $15.5B | $15.4B | -1.0% |
| Q3'25 | - | $15.2B | - |
| Q2'25 | - | $15.2B | - |
UAL|Monthly Returns
Market Data
UAL Stock Snapshot
- Market cap
- 35.65B
- P/E ratio
- 10.2
- Day range
- $106.50 – $109.80
- News sentiment
- 41/100 · Neutral
- Analyst target
- $158.54 (+48.5%)
- Consensus
- Buy · 32 analysts
The signals on UAL lean bearish, and the range position backs that up. The stock is liquid enough that positioning changes get absorbed without distorting the trend.
Reverse DCF
What growth is priced into UAL?
At today's price, United Airlines Holdings, Inc. needs to grow free cash flow about 12.7% a year for the next 10 years to justify its valuation at a 10.26% cost of capital. Over its actual history it has compounded free cash flow at 6.1% a year, so the market is asking for 6.5 percentage points above its own delivered rate. On that basis UAL looks priced above what its own growth record supports.
- Implied FCF growth
- 12.7%
- Historical FCF CAGR
- 6.1%
- Growth gap
- +6.5 pts
- Verdict
- RICH
- Discount rate (WACC)
- 10.26%
- Beta
- 1.68
Behaviour On Record
What UAL's own history says about today's numbers
- Realized volatility (21d)
- 37.5% 41st pct
- Below its peak
- -20.4%
- vs 200-day average
- -0.3%
- Up days (1y)
- 47%
United Airlines Holdings, Inc. is currently running 37.5% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against UAL's own 8 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 41st percentile — close to its own typical level, against a typical reading of 41.7%. The distinction matters because a number that looks calm for one stock is turbulent for another, and the absolute figure on its own tells you neither.
UAL is trading -20.4% below its running peak. Across 7 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -38.0%, and the deepest was -77.9% in 2020. The current pullback is therefore shallower than what this stock gives back in a typical year, which is context worth having before treating it as a dislocation.
Price sits -0.3% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 44th percentile — close to the gap it normally carries. Over the past year UAL closed higher on 47% of sessions, and it is currently 1 session into a falling streak.
On September specifically: over 8 years of records, UAL finished the month higher 4 of 8 times, with a median return of -1.1% and an average of +0.9%. Its strongest month historically has been November at +9.6% on average, its weakest March at -10.5%. Seasonality is a weak signal on its own — a decade is a small sample and regimes change — but it is a real distribution rather than a rule of thumb.
Overnight risk is measurable too: UAL has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 97 of 2,012 sessions (4.8% of the time), with the largest gaps running +9.6% and -9.7%. For anyone holding through an event, that rate is a better guide to overnight exposure than the intraday range.
Across the last 3 dated reports on file, UAL moved an average of 2.7% in the session after earnings, closing higher 1 of those 3 times, with a median move of -1.1% and a largest of -6.9%.
All figures computed from 2,013 daily closes between 2018-09-10 and 2026-09-14, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against UAL's own 8-year history, not a peer group or index.
Sector Rotation
Is money rotating into or out of UAL's sector?
United Airlines Holdings, Inc. sits in the Industrials sector, currently ranked 11th of 11 GICS sectors by relative-strength rotation score (lagging).
- Sector rank
- #11 of 11
- Sector state
- Lagging
- Sector rotation score
- 10
Analyst Rating Changes
Are analysts turning bullish or bearish on UAL?
Barclays most recently reiterated its rating on United Airlines Holdings, Inc. to Overweight on Sep 11, 2026 with a price target of $160 (from $175). Over the last 90 days, coverage has run 0 upgrades against 0 downgrades, a net mixed lean.
- Latest action
- Barclays — Overweight
- 90-day upgrades
- 0
- 90-day downgrades
- 0
- Net rating momentum
- 0
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