The stronger-than-expected recovery of air travel demand following the end of the pandemic has been driving the Zacks Transportation - Airline industry. While air travel demand is particularly strong on the leisure front, it is heartening to note that business demand has made an encouraging comeback. The decline in fuel expenses represents another tailwind for the industry. Driven by the abovementioned positives, investors interested in the industry would do well to keep stocks like Delta Air Lines (DAL) , ...

Investing in the airline industry generally means buying a piece of stable companies with generous support from the government. That being said, airlines have plenty of chances to make mistakes like any other type of business. While most companies learn from their mistakes and improve long-term, airlines constantly teeter on the edge of collapse. This has led to this list of doomed airline stocks to sell.Due to the high-risk nature of managing air travel, one crash or televised mistake can decimate stock va ...

In its January FOMC meeting, the Federal Reserve kept rates unchanged but what disappointed investors was Fed Chair Jerome Powell's indications that rate cuts are unlikely in the near future, particularly in March. The Fed is looking for more data pertaining to declining inflation before considering rate cuts.Powell’s statement triggered a massive sell-off, with Wall Street falling sharply on Jan 31.  In fact, U.S. equity markets have witnessed a roller-coaster ride since then, with volatility looming large ...

For those looking to find strong Transportation stocks, it is prudent to search for companies in the group that are outperforming their peers. Is American Airlines (AAL) one of those stocks right now? Let's take a closer look at the stock's year-to-date performance to find out.American Airlines is a member of our Transportation group, which includes 133 different companies and currently sits at #4 in the Zacks Sector Rank. The Zacks Sector Rank includes 16 different groups and is listed in order from best t ...

Momentum investing is essentially an exception to the idea of "buying low and selling high." Investors following this style of investing are usually not interested in betting on cheap stocks and waiting long for them to recover. Instead, they believe that "buying high and selling higher" is the way to make far more money in lesser time.Everyone likes betting on fast-moving trending stocks, but it isn't easy to determine the right entry point. These stocks often lose momentum when their future growth potenti ...

Though the macroeconomic environment is gradually becoming clearer, the path to rate cuts is still uncertain. While market participants are expecting the first rate cut in March, the central bank officials are pushing back on such anticipations.Hence, in such a situation, it is difficult for individual investors to pick stocks independently and generate robust returns. For this, one has to understand the fundamentals of a company and try to place them against the present economic background to figure out ho ...

FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb. 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- American Airlines Group (NASDAQ: AAL) Chief Executive Officer Robert Isom and senior leadership will present at the company’s 2024 Investor Day on Monday, March 4, from noon CT until approximately 3 p.m. CT. A live webcast of the presentation will be available at aa.com/investorrelations. About American Airlines GroupTo Care for People on Life's Journey®. Shares of American Airlines Group Inc. trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol AAL and the company's ...

FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb. 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- American Airlines Group (NASDAQ:AAL) Chief Executive Officer Robert Isom and senior leadership will present at the company's 2024 Investor Day on Monday, March 4, from noon CT until approximately 3 p.m. CT. A live webcast of the presentation will be available at aa.com/investorrelations. About American Airlines GroupTo Care for People on Life's Journey®. Shares of American Airlines Group Inc. trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol AAL and the company's s ...

While technology stocks continue to drive the market higher, they are not the only game in town. Investors needn’t invest only in semiconductor stocks to achieve big gains. Many blue-chip stocks are rallying right now following the release of their financial results for the fourth and final quarter of 2023.The names of a lot of these worthwhile stocks will be familiar to investors. And for good reason. They tend to be dominant companies and brands that provide goods and services many of us find essential in ...

As we progress through the Q4 earnings season investors may still be digesting the quarterly results from several airliners last week including the likes of United Airlines (UAL)  and American Airlines (AAL) .Their size and reach to international destinations tend to garnish investors' attention over regional carriers such as Southwest Airlines (LUV)  and Alaska Air Group (ALK)  which both reported Q4 results last week as well.  Like their regional counterparts, American and United were able to surpass thei ...