Global airline American Airlines (NASDAQ: AAL) will be announcing earnings results this Thursday before market open. Here’s what to expect.
American Airlines beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 0.6% last quarter, reporting revenues of $14.39 billion, flat year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with full-year EPS guidance missing analysts’ expectations significantly and EPS guidance for next quarter missing analysts’ expectations significantly. It reported 65.76 billion revenue passenger miles, flat year on year.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting American Airlines’s revenue to be flat year on year at $13.63 billion, slowing from the 1.2% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted loss is expected to come in at -$0.28 per share.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. American Airlines has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates three times over the last two years.
Looking at American Airlines’s peers in the travel and vacation providers segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Delta delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 6.4%, beating analysts’ expectations by 3.8%, and United Airlines reported revenues up 2.6%, in line with consensus estimates. Delta’s stock price was unchanged after the resultswhile United Airlines was down 5.8%.
Read our full analysis of Delta’s results here and United Airlines’s results here.
Debates over possible tariffs and corporate tax adjustments have raised questions about economic stability in 2025. While some of the travel and vacation providers stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 2.9% on average over the last month. American Airlines’s stock price was unchanged during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $14.23 (compared to the current share price of $12.33).
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