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Allegiant (ALGT) Shares Fall In Spite of Rosy September Traffic
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Allegiant Travel Company (ALGT - Free Report) reported impressive traffic numbers for September as air-travel demand recovers in the United States from Delta variant-led woes. With more Americans getting vaccinated, the picture is rosier on a year-over-year basis as well as on a year-over-two-year basis. However, the upbeat traffic results failed to impress the market as shares of Allegiant dropped 2.4% since the date of traffic release (Oct 14).
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The downside was probably caused by an increase in fuel costs. With oil prices shooting up, Allegiant is witnessing a rise in fuel cost per gallon. The metric is now expected to be at $2.20 per gallon (previous expectation: $2.19 per gallon) for the third quarter (detailed results will be out on Oct 27). Due to higher-than-anticipated irregular operations costs, the company trimmed its third-quarter guidance for adjusted EBITDA margin. Adjusted EBITDA margin for the quarter is estimated to be approximately at 15.5-16.5% (previous guidance: 16-18%). Excluding heightened levels of irregular operations costs, adjusted EBITDA margin would have been nearly 24%.
Coming back to its September traffic report, scheduled traffic (measured in revenue passenger miles) surged 70% from September 2020 levels. Capacity (measured in available seat miles) for scheduled service increased 38.5% from September 2020 readings.
With the traffic surge outweighing capacity expansion, load factor (% of seats filled by passengers) in September expanded 13.1 points to 70.5% from the year-ago period’s levels. For the total system (including scheduled service and fixed fee contract), Allegiant carried more passengers in September 2021, up 71.5% from the September 2020 levels.
Compared with September 2019 levels (pre-COVID), traffic and capacity surged 7.8% and 26%, respectively. However, the load factor tanked 11.9 points to 70.5% as the increase in traffic was less than capacity expansion. For the total system, the airline carried 3.7% more passengers in September 2021 from September 2019 levels.
The carrier expects its September-end quarter’s total revenues to be up approximately 5.3% now (previous expectation: up 3-5%) from third-quarter 2019 levels.
Zacks Rank & Stocks to Consider
Allegiant currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
Long-term (three to five years) expected earnings per share growth rate for Landstar, C.H. Robinson and FedEx is projected at 12%, 9% and 17.9%, respectively.
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Allegiant (ALGT) Shares Fall In Spite of Rosy September Traffic
Allegiant Travel Company (ALGT - Free Report) reported impressive traffic numbers for September as air-travel demand recovers in the United States from Delta variant-led woes. With more Americans getting vaccinated, the picture is rosier on a year-over-year basis as well as on a year-over-two-year basis. However, the upbeat traffic results failed to impress the market as shares of Allegiant dropped 2.4% since the date of traffic release (Oct 14).
The downside was probably caused by an increase in fuel costs. With oil prices shooting up, Allegiant is witnessing a rise in fuel cost per gallon. The metric is now expected to be at $2.20 per gallon (previous expectation: $2.19 per gallon) for the third quarter (detailed results will be out on Oct 27). Due to higher-than-anticipated irregular operations costs, the company trimmed its third-quarter guidance for adjusted EBITDA margin. Adjusted EBITDA margin for the quarter is estimated to be approximately at 15.5-16.5% (previous guidance: 16-18%). Excluding heightened levels of irregular operations costs, adjusted EBITDA margin would have been nearly 24%.
Coming back to its September traffic report, scheduled traffic (measured in revenue passenger miles) surged 70% from September 2020 levels. Capacity (measured in available seat miles) for scheduled service increased 38.5% from September 2020 readings.
With the traffic surge outweighing capacity expansion, load factor (% of seats filled by passengers) in September expanded 13.1 points to 70.5% from the year-ago period’s levels. For the total system (including scheduled service and fixed fee contract), Allegiant carried more passengers in September 2021, up 71.5% from the September 2020 levels.
Compared with September 2019 levels (pre-COVID), traffic and capacity surged 7.8% and 26%, respectively. However, the load factor tanked 11.9 points to 70.5% as the increase in traffic was less than capacity expansion. For the total system, the airline carried 3.7% more passengers in September 2021 from September 2019 levels.
The carrier expects its September-end quarter’s total revenues to be up approximately 5.3% now (previous expectation: up 3-5%) from third-quarter 2019 levels.
Zacks Rank & Stocks to Consider
Allegiant currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
Some better-ranked stocks in the broader Zacks Transportation sector are Landstar System (LSTR - Free Report) , C.H. Robinson (CHRW - Free Report) and Schneider National, Inc. (SNDR - Free Report) . All the stocks carry a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy). You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1(Strong Buy) Rank stocks here.
Long-term (three to five years) expected earnings per share growth rate for Landstar, C.H. Robinson and FedEx is projected at 12%, 9% and 17.9%, respectively.