Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. (HA)

[JLS]

Airline Comparison

Within all of the airline stocks listed below, only one is trending higher, and that trend is very clear. Which one would that be?

AAL
ALGT
ALK
DAL
HA
JBLU
LUV
SAVE
SKYW
UAL

Give up? Hey, I left a hint.

Answer: HA

Maybe HA stands out because: Hawaiian is the oldest US carrier that has never had a fatal accident or a hull loss throughout its history, and frequently tops the on-time carrier list in the United States, as well as the fewest cancellations, oversales, and baggage handling issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_Airlines

I'll also add that it is uniquely located in a strategic location in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and can most efficiently serve transportation between Asia, New Zealand, and the western United states.

[Taurus69]

$ha Key Financial Ratios
Earnings Per Share
4.72
Price/Earnings
6.2055
Gross Margin
0.528
Operating Margin
0.1156

[Taurus69]

$ha Share Structure

Market Cap Market Cap
592,232,101
05/08/2020
Authorized Shares
Not Available
Outstanding Shares
45,873,904
02/07/2020
Restricted

[Taurus69]

$ha https://www.hawaiianairlines.com/

[Taurus69]

$ha $12.91

[JLS]

Here's what I would do now:

Well ... on Monday. And it's what I did to get into HA.

It's what I do very often to enter (or continually trade) stocks at lower risk while also guaranteeing some steady income. Of course to lower risk, there is generally a price to be paid which can temporarily limit your gain.

For HA this is a good time to do what I suggest because there is one week left till this month's HA options expiration.

Trade: buy the stock then sell May Calls against all shares. In other words, you want the market to pay you to get into the stock. Doing this, you are getting in cheaper because the Calls are paying you back; but, depending on the strike of your Calls (and what the market decides to do) your stock may be called away at options expiration this coming Friday. That's not necessarily a bad thing, as you will then have the opportunity to (maybe) buy them back cheaper.

A way of eliminating the chance of shares being called away on Friday (but receiving more to enter the trade) is to sell next month's Calls after buying the shares. You'll get a lot more for those Calls because of their greater time value, but you are also increasing the risk that your shares will be called away next month. But that's not so bad after all because you will have a lot more time to trade both in and out of those Calls -- and that can substantially increase your gain over the next several weeks during that process.

I like this Buy-write strategy so much that I do it virtually all of the time. Granted, I miss a lot really great leaps higher in the particular stock I'm trading, but it's made up over time as there is always that steady weekly income from selling Calls (even if the stock does poorly).

The only thing I don't like about HA is that it only has monthly options -- I have a strong preference for stocks that have weekly options because I get to sell Calls more often. But it might turn out that this could work better because there would be more opportunities during a monthly period (compared to weekly) because there would be more time available to flip in and out of the Calls.

So, in case you haven't figured it out, I really like the CC trading process. It's like owning your own company with the advantage that you can write Calls against the shares and its income is your dividend: now you have a pay-your-own-dividend company, and there is no shame in being greedy about that so pay yourself often.

[TraderDMaui]

I have to agree with you on HA$ just waiting on an entry point.$$$$

[JLS]

That's a few months old.

Doubt it's worth much as HA has been slowly drifting upward after it hit bottom two-thirds into March. The chart below is one of many comparisons I looked at when determining which airline stock I wanted to trade.

I was trading AAL occasionally early in the year and getting some good trades but left it behind before it made its major decline.

So recently I checked all airlines because if they've bottomed for awhile, that sector could be a good place to enter during its recovery. So I traded AAL once or twice while at its bottom, but concluded it wants to trade flat or even slightly down further, so I decided to abandon that one.

That's when I took another look at a large list of airline stocks as virtually all of them are down from their highs by a ratio of about 3:1. That's when I found HA, and it looked so good that I got on it like ducks on a June bug.

Therefore currently I only trade HA. And as for AAL, I still consider it to be in a very slow decline.

[whytestocks]

$HA short squeeze all day Hawaiian Holdings Inc Nasdaq Ha Short Squeeze

[PennyStock Alert]

Bank of the Ozarks Set to Join the S&P MidCap 400; Hawaiian Holdings to be Added to the S&P SmallCap 600

[whytestocks]

News: $HA Hawaiian Holdings Announces 2019 First Quarter Conference Call

HONOLULU , April 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: HA), parent company of Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. ("Hawaiian"), plans to report its first quarter 2019 financial results after the market closes on Tuesday, April 23 , 2019.  An investor conference call is schedu...

Got this from https://marketwirenews.com/news-releases/hawaiian-holdings-announces-2019-first-quarter-conference-call-7972812.html

[stocktrademan]

HA bullish 38.26

bounce off support in an uptrend

[98040]

HA should be taking off higher those pilots picketing is all fake!!!according to the HA mechanics I spoke to on one of my HA flight!!!! Go HA go HA...

[thugnificent]

Woohoo! HA babay

[98040]

This will drop hard HA pilots are picketing on strike...get in on the dip!!!!

[thugnificent]

Bulll! $HA

[thugnificent]

Bull in a down market. Ibd chit here

[thugnificent]

Sweeet

[KingDMC]

Wondering if this makes a good day trade short with the upcoming fed volatility...

[KingDMC]

SAVE, AAL, HA, VA I like

[lwc23]

nice day here

[thugnificent]

Dip?

[KingDMC]

Ouch..

[undog]

put city come mon weeeeeeeee!!!!!

[98040]

Damn looking good here it's the flying Hawaiiian airline sweet...

[KingDMC]

Yeah I lost like $24,000 or so in minutes lol

[lwc23]

I hear ya bro, that drop was nasty @ the beginning of the year

[KingDMC]

I'm long long long gone her bro. Want no parts of HA.

[lwc23]

This thing looks great, unfortunetelly i don't have a position here

[KingDMC]

What a rebound off $19.87

[KingDMC]

Ouch. Missed terribly top and bottom.

[KingDMC]

Stock getting killed. $18 looming?

[KingDMC]

May be a good buy for a push to $30. S&P small cap 600

[KingDMC]

Bank of the Ozarks Set to Join the S&P MidCap 400; Hawaiian Holdings to be Added to the S&P SmallCap 600

Source: PR Newswire (US)
NEW YORK, May 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P SmallCap 600 constituent Bank of the Ozarks Inc. (NASD: OZRK) will replace Exelis Inc. (NYSE: XLS) in the S&P MidCap 400, and Hawaiian Holdings Inc. (NASD: HA) will replace Bank of the Ozarks in the S&P SmallCap 600 after the close of trading on Thursday, May 28. S&P 500 constituent Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) is acquiring Exelis in a deal expected to be completed before the opening of trading on Friday, May 29.

Bank of the Ozarks provides a range of retail and commercial banking services. Headquartered in Little Rock, AR, the company will be added to the S&P MidCap 400 GICS (Global Industry Classification Standard) Regional Banks Sub-Industry index.

Hawaiian Holdings engages in the scheduled air transportation of passengers and cargo. Headquartered in Honolulu, HI, the company will be added to the S&P SmallCap 600 GICS Airlines Sub-Industry index.

Following is a summary of the changes:

S&P MidCap 400 INDEX – May 28, 2015


COMPANY

GICS ECONOMIC SECTOR

GICS SUB-INDUSTRY

ADDED

Bank of the Ozarks

Financials

Regional Banks

DELETED

Exelis

Industrials

Aerospace & Defense



S&P SmallCap 600 INDEX – May 28, 2015


COMPANY

GICS ECONOMIC SECTOR

GICS SUB-INDUSTRY

ADDED

Hawaiian Holdings

Industrials

Airlines

DELETED

Bank of the Ozarks

Financials

Regional Banks



Additions to and deletions from S&P Dow Jones Indices do not in any way reflect an opinion on the investment merits of the companies involved.

[KingDMC]

+13% damn

[KingDMC]

Oh my. HA +11% on earnings beat. The one time I skip it after that 30% massacre last quarter. Go figure...

[98040]

I fly HA every three weeks and i believe that this stock is under valued service in first class is always the best...

[KingDMC]

HA stinks

[TREND1]

rrg study

[TREND1]

Hawaiian Holdings (NASDAQ: HA) shares plunged Friday after the parent company of Hawaiian Airlines warned Thursday that foreign exchange rates and lower fuel surcharges would hit a key revenue figure.

The carrier said Q1 operating revenue per available seat mile (RASM) would fall 3.5% to 6.5% vs. a year ago, after climbing 6.1% in Q4.


"The U.S. dollar is stronger and fuel surcharges on some of our international routes will be substantially lower," COO Peter Ingram said on a conference call Thursday. "These two items alone combine for a 3-percentage-point reduction in RASM performance for the system in the first quarter."

Shares sank 26% to 19.70 on the stock market today, falling below its 50-day line and hitting a two-month low.

Fuel surcharges, which are added to tickets in South Korea and Japan and help boost profit, will likely be near zero next quarter as oil prices fall.

Oil is now down 60% since June. But some airlines, including Hawaiian, haven't been able to see the full benefit of lower prices due to hedging contracts.

The airline paid $2.84 per gallon of fuel in Q4, lower than a year ago, but still well above the $2.52 per gallon that American Airlines (NASDAQ: AAL), which doesn't hedge, paid.

American shares fell 3% to 50.68.

The stronger dollar hit Hawaiian's tickets to Asian customers, but it said demand for travel to Hawaii is still strong and that it would add flights. But analysts worry a quick jump in capacity could sink fares and hit profit.

The carrier reported an 82% jump in earnings to 40 cents per share, in line with analyst estimates. Revenue rose 2.6% to $574.84 million, slightly above views for $574.08 million.

Last week, United Continental (NYSE: UAL), Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) and Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) all reported strong Q4 results, helped by lower oil prices.

But shares of all three were down over 2% on Friday.

Follow Gillian Rich on Twitter: @IBD_GRich.



Read More At Investor's Business Daily: news.investors.com

[TREND1]

one could add $djusgl = hotels to the group.

[TREND1]

The big question in my mind is :
Is there now a top in all the air lines ?

[TREND1]

AIR LINES ARE LIKE AUTOS,STEEL,UTILITIES,ETC
Is HA TELLING US THE FUTURE ?
Let us open the discussion....

[TREND1]

HA D

[KingDMC]

I knew I should have shorted at +7%

[KingDMC]

Wth is going on here??

[curiousbuild]

No kidding. And I am part time stock guy and didn't notice this drop till this evening. I am up quite significantly but hell with this market reaction to numbers that came out.

[jacklondon413]

thinking of jumping back in at these prices. I don't understand this type of drop based on fear.

[curiousbuild]

WTH? I can't believe this crap.. I was up 100%+ yesterday, gotta hold on bit longer.. Oil jump might be the reason for all Airlines..

[el jefe78]

I honestly thought HA would see $30 before it saw $20 again!!