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LONGER WAIT FOR AIRLINE RESULTS TAKE-OFF
Airlines aren't the weakest of the transports stock group on Tuesday, but Seaport Research Partners is out with a less than glowing report for the sector citing a laundry list of issues including weaker than hoped for demand, plane delivery issues, pricing pressures, and last Friday's global tech outage which grounded flights.
Based on reports from 3 carriers so far this quarter - Alaska Air Group ALK.N, United Airlines UAL.O and Delta Air Lines DAL.N - Seaport analyst Daniel McKenzie said he was resetting revenue estimates for the sector and pushing his expectation for margin expansion out to Q4.
McKenzie wrote in a research note, dated July 22, but emailed on July 23, that he had expected choppy stock performance for the first half of the year but anticipated that Q2 earnings would be an inflection point for the group with the help of hopes for Q3 revenue and margin expansion.
But now he writes that July revenue challenges will "likely prompt more airlines to disappoint on their 3Q24 outlook" so his expectation for better stock performance has been pushed out to Sept or Oct.
McKenzie estimated a cost to U.S. airlines of >$100 million stemming from the operational disruptions from Friday's CrowdStrike CRWD.O tech problem, though he did caution that it was early days to try to put a number on the issue.
This includes an estimate for ~$40 million in costs for Delta alone as the carrier has canceled more than 5,000 flights since Friday, leading the U.S. Transportation Department to say on Tuesday that it was opening an investigation into the airline.
McKenzie said he reset second-half revenue expectations for six airlines - American Airlines AAL.O, Allegiant Travel ALGT.O, JetBlue JBLU.O, Southwest Airlines LUV.N, Spirit Airlines SAVE.K and Copa Holdings CPA.N - and revised Seaport's price targets for Allegiant and Copa.
McKenzie cites summer oversupply due to a demand forecasting error on the part of airlines as higher interest rates have slowed the economy, which "leaves normalized demand an open question mark" and "materially lower than last year."
This brings creates challenges as the airlines have to pay for "labor's historic wage deals," he wrote.
The analyst cited delivery delays from plane maker Boeing BA.N and also said he expects premium seats to be the next "revenue battle ground."
On Tuesday the biggest decliners from the group are American Airlines and Southwest, down more than 1% followed by Alaska Air, down 0.8%. Delta shares are ~flat after falling 3.5% on Monday.
(Sinéad Carew)
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