Stock · DAL · Industrials
United States · Large Cap · listed since 2007 · Revenue 12 mo. $71.8B
Price as of 11/06/2026
Delta Air Lines, Inc. provides scheduled air transportation for passengers and cargo in the United States and internationally.
Delta Air Lines, Inc. provides scheduled air transportation for passengers and cargo in the United States and internationally. The company operates through two segments, Airline and Refinery. Its domestic network centered on core hubs in Atlanta, Detroit, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and Salt Lake City, as well as coastal hub positions in Boston, Los Angeles, New York-LaGuardia, New York-JFK, and Seattle; and international network centered on hubs and market presence in Amsterdam, Bogota, Lima, Mexico City, London-Heathrow, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Santiago (Chile), Sao Paulo, Seoul-Incheon, and Tokyo. It also provides aircraft maintenance and engineering support, repair, and overhaul services; and vacation packages. The company operates through a fleet of approximately 1,314 aircraft. Delta Air Lines, Inc. was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Summary
55.2 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €3.4B (2025), it supports €38.3B. The remaining €11.1B of the market value assume it grows 3.6% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
3.6%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 7.2×, above its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 3.7× to 5.2×, median 4.6×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
No indication in the stored figures.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q2 → Q3 2026
4 more unchanged: EBIT margin, FCF margin, Net debt, Shares outstanding
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 24.12% | 13.10% | Rank 82 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 12.66% | 19.33% | Rank 29 |
| EBIT margin | 9.19% | 11.28% | Rank 38 |
| FCF margin | 6.06% | 8.50% | Rank 39 |
| Gross margin | 22.84% | 28.98% | Rank 37 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 2.79% | 5.15% | Rank 37 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | 54.97% | 8.01% | Rank 92 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per yeardoes not count towards the rank | – | 12.89% | |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 7.10% | 4.02% | Rank 72 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 8.78% | 4.42% | Rank 87 |
| FCF yield | 6.97% | 3.98% | Rank 80 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 1.13 | 2.08 | Rank 74 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 12.35 | 19.47 | Rank 80 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | 41.23% | −0.01% | Rank 93 |
| Share price, 6 months | 19.40% | −1.43% | Rank 87 |
| Share price, 3 months | 0.60% | 0.53% | Rank 51 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −6.90% | −16.36% | Rank 81 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | 1.08% | 1.39% | Rank 53 |
| Change in share countlower is better | 0.93% | −0.44% | Rank 10 |
| Dividend streak in years | 2 | 5 | Rank 34 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | −0.57% | 0.27% | Rank 39 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 25.56% | 39.65% | Rank 20 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | 2.09 | 1.38 | Rank 33 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 1.02 | 0.61 | Rank 29 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 38.66% | 32.95% | Rank 30 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF | Shares | Net debt, $B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 39.5 | 17.7% | $3.8B | 755M | 4.6 |
| 2017 | 41.1 | 14.5% | $1.3B | 723M | 7.0 |
| 2018 | 44.4 | 11.9% | $1.8B | 694M | 15.0 |
| 2019 | 47.0 | 14.1% | $3.5B | 653M | 14.4 |
| 2020 | 17.1 | −72.9% | −$5.7B | 636M | 27.2 |
| 2021 | 29.9 | 6.3% | $16.0M | 641M | 26.7 |
| 2022 | 50.6 | 7.2% | −$2.0M | 641M | 27.3 |
| 2023 | 58.0 | 9.5% | $1.1B | 643M | 24.5 |
| 2024 | 61.6 | 9.7% | $2.9B | 648M | 19.7 |
| 2025 | 63.4 | 9.2% | $3.8B | 654M | 16.8 |
4 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
Delta Air Lines Inc mainly meets criteria in the Valuation category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
Delta Air Lines Inc is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
4 of 7 rules met
5 of 11 points
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Selected fundamental metrics for Delta Air Lines Inc.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 11.4 | 22.5 |
| P/B ratio | 2.7 | 2.9 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 24.1% | 13.1% |
| Equity ratio | 25.6% | 39.7% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 1.02 | 0.61 |
| Dividend yield | 0.9% | 2.0% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| DAL | Delta Air Lines Incthis page | |
| UAL | United Airlines Holdings Inc | Low3.6 |
| LUV | Southwest Airlines Company | Low0.9 |
| RYA.IR | Ryanair Holdings plc | locked |
| IAG.MC | International Consolidated Airlines Group S.A | locked |
| INDIGO.NS | InterGlobe Aviation Limited | locked |
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