It doesn't matter your age or experience: taking full advantage of the stock market and investing with confidence are common goals for all investors.
While you may have an investing style you rely on, finding great stocks is made easier with the Zacks Style Scores. These are complementary indicators that rate stocks based on value, growth, and/or momentum characteristics.
Different than growth or momentum investors, value-focused investors are all about finding good stocks at good prices, and discovering which companies are trading under what their true value is before the broader market catches on. The Value Style Score utilizes ratios like P/E, PEG, Price/Sales, and Price/Cash Flow to help pick out the most attractive and discounted stocks.
Delta Air Lines is one of the four carriers that together account for 60% of the US aviation market This development followed a spate of mergers in the industry during the early part of this century.
DAL is a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) stock, with a Value Style Score of A and VGM Score of A. Shares are currently trading at a forward P/E of 7.9X for the current fiscal year compared to the Transportation - Airline industry's P/E of 8.9X. Additionally, DAL has a PEG Ratio of 0.6 and a Price/Cash Flow ratio of 6X. Value investors should also note DAL's Price/Sales ratio of 0.6X.
A company's earnings performance is important for value investors as well. For fiscal 2025, eight analysts revised their earnings estimate higher in the last 60 days for DAL, while the Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $0.41 to $7.58 per share. DAL also holds an average earnings surprise of 6.5%.
DAL should be on investors' short lists because of its impressive earnings and valuation fundamentals, a good Zacks Rank, and strong Value and VGM Style Scores.
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