Airlines Report Card, 10.01.04
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Company

Symbol

P/E*

Earnings/ share

Price

9.30.04

2.26.04

9.10.03

Sales/ Income

B=billion

M=million

52-wk high/

52-wk low

1Q 2004 Operating Profit/Loss

(millions)

Market Cap/

#Shares

Debt/ Equity Ratio

Insider Trading

Load Factor

(8.04.2004)

Continental Airlines

CAL

20.80

.41

8.52

14.86

17.09

9.4 B

39 M

21.70

7.80

-125.9 M

566.3M

66.46M

8.22

Not significant

81.6%

Jet Blue

JBLU

27.20

.77

20.92

23.62

57.10

1.15B

85.2M

47.14

20.10

32.7 M

2.162B

103.4 M

1.62

$1 million insider sells

89.3%

Southwest Airlines**

LUV

35.80

.38

13.62

14.11

18.00

6.27B

311 M

19.69

12.88

46.4 M

10.76 B

790.2 M

.24

$12 million – ALL Insider Sells

75.1%

American Airlines

AMR

NA

-1.68

7.33

15.35

12.47

18.34B

-270M

17.65

6.76

-251.7 M

1.178B

790.2M

OFF THE CHARTS

$300,000 insider sells

78.4%

Delta Airlines

DAL

NA

-22.96

3.29

9.15

14.23

14.09 B

-2.84B

15.14

2.78

-383.9 M

413.2 M

125.6M

OFF THE CHARTS

$400,000 SOLD

78.9%

Northwest

NWAC

NA

-.07

8.21

10.90

10.64

10.44 B

19 M

15.21

7.50

-50.6 M

709.6 M

86.43 M

OFF THE CHARTS

$4 Million insider sells

83.3%

United Airlines QQ

UALAQ

NA

N/A

1.05

2.48

.94

No Data

Bankruptcy

3.70

.11

-294.5 M

Ch. 11

Ch. 11

Ch. 11

83.8%

US Airways

QQ

UAIRQ

NA

-3.25

.81

5.23

NA

5.31 B

-174 M

15.25

.58

-157.6 M

33.88 M

57.13 M

32.77

None filed

79.1%

*P/E is well below industry average.

**Dividend-paying stock.

QQ = In Bankrupcty.

Data obtained off of www.moneycentral.msn.com, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (www.bts.gov) and other news sources, including the NY Times, Reuters, Bloomberg, CNBC and press releases.