DAL

Delta Air Lines, Inc. ·NYSE·Industrials
89.95 live · 2026-08-12 15:59
17.6%
Brown Bear Score
23.9%
Business Conviction Score
34.4%
Position Health Score
26.3%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +53.9% · range 55.65–93.66

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets 4.7%
OCF / assets 10.3%
FCF / revenue 13.2%
Gross margin 18.7%
ROIC 12.8%
Forward P/E 10.2

FCF/assets and OCF/assets are the cash-flow measures Brown Bear's own testing found to survive; FCF/revenue is shown alongside for context. Assets are from the latest annual filing (FY2025).

Price vs Earnings growth

Price has run ahead of forward EPS growth by 6.3pp

Confidence 95.0/100

Takeaway Price and forward earnings growth are broadly in step; no strong valuation lean either way.

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-10-07 before the open · consensus EPS 2.21

Q3 23 revenue: 15.49bnQ3 23 net income: 1.11bnQ3 23 EPS: 1.72Q4 23 revenue: 14.22bnQ4 23 net income: 2.04bnQ4 23 EPS: 3.17Q4 23Q1 24 revenue: 13.75bnQ1 24 net income: 37.00mQ1 24 EPS: 0.06Q2 24 revenue: 16.66bnQ2 24 net income: 1.30bnQ2 24 EPS: 2.01Q2 24Q3 24 revenue: 15.68bnQ3 24 net income: 1.27bnQ3 24 EPS: 1.97Q4 24 revenue: 15.56bnQ4 24 net income: 843.00mQ4 24 EPS: 1.30Q4 24Q1 25 revenue: 14.04bnQ1 25 net income: 240.00mQ1 25 EPS: 0.37Q2 25 revenue: 16.65bnQ2 25 net income: 2.13bnQ2 25 EPS: 3.27Q2 25Q3 25 revenue: 16.67bnQ3 25 net income: 1.42bnQ3 25 EPS: 2.17Q4 25 revenue: 16.00bnQ4 25 net income: 1.22bnQ4 25 EPS: 1.86Q4 25Q1 26 revenue: 15.85bnQ1 26 net income: -289.00mQ1 26 EPS: -0.44Q2 26 revenue: 19.76bnQ2 26 net income: 1.60bnQ2 26 EPS: 2.44Q2 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (-0.44–3.27, own scale) Derived Q4

12 quarters to Q2 26. Revenue and net income share one scale, so the gap between them is the margin. The baseline is zero — bars below it are losses. The line is GAAP EPS — it spans every quarter shown, where the reported figure only goes back as far as the consensus feed does.

Quarter endingRevenueYoY Net incomeEPS (GAAP) EPS reportedvs consensus Filed
2026-06-30 19.76bn +18.7% 1.60bn 2.44 1.56 +4.4% 2026-07-10
2026-03-31 15.85bn +12.9% -289.00m -0.44 0.64 +10.7% 2026-04-08
2025-12-31 (derived) 16.00bn +2.8% 1.22bn 1.86 1.55 +0.5% 2026-02-11
2025-09-30 16.67bn +6.4% 1.42bn 2.17 1.71 +10.5% 2025-10-09

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±3.3%
On an ordinary two days ±1.9% — filings move it 1.7× as much
Direction 8 up, 4 down over 12 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +52.7% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-10-13: price +6.4%Q1 23 revenue +36.5% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-04-13: price +0.1%Q1 23Q2 23 revenue +12.7% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-07-13: price -2.8%Q3 23 revenue +10.8% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-10-12: price -5.2%Q3 23Q1 24 revenue +7.8% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-04-10: price +0.7%Q2 24 revenue +6.9% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-07-11: price -6.9%Q2 24Q3 24 revenue +1.2% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-10-10: price +1.0%Q1 25 revenue +2.1% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-04-09: price +9.7%Q1 25Q2 25 revenue -0.1% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-07-10: price +11.5%Q3 25 revenue +6.4% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-10-09: price +0.6%Q3 25Q1 26 revenue +12.9% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-04-08: price +3.4%Q2 26 revenue +18.7% year on yearQ2 26 filed 2026-07-10: price -3.2%Q2 26

Revenue up year on year Revenue down Price move around the filing separate scales — a crossing means nothing

Quarter endingFiledRevenue YoY Move around filingNext 20 sessions vs SPY
2026-06-30 2026-07-10 +18.7% -3.2% +0.3%
2026-03-31 2026-04-08 +12.9% +3.4% +0.2%
2025-09-30 2025-10-09 +6.4% +0.6% -0.0%
2025-06-30 2025-07-10 -0.1% +11.5% -7.2%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Flat — little net change
Diluted shares 658.0M as at 2026-06-30
Change over 1 year +0.9%
Change over 3 years +2.5%
Public float $32.10bn as at 2025-06-30 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyFair Value Anchor
Reference band 82.95 — 90.38
Protective stop 83.89 (Structure, 3.2% risk)
Support 85.06 (2 touches, 5.7% away)
Resistance 95.28 (5.9% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the floor than the ceiling: about 5.7% above 85.06, a price buyers have stepped in at before, and 5.9% below 95.28, where sellers have turned up before. That floor has held 2 times, which is how it was spotted. If someone bought at today's price and sold if it dropped through the level below, they would be about 3.2% out of pocket. That is all this figure means — an illustration of the risk, not a price to sell at.

Levels are computed from price structure. They describe where the engine locates support and extension — they are not targets, and not advice.

Ichimoku Cloud (Adaptive)

Daily cloudPrice ABOVE the cloud | periods 8/24/49 (94% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BULL | cloud twist BULL
Cloud thickness34% percentile (thin — little structure to fight through)
Chikou spanAbove price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice ABOVE the weekly cloud (context only, not scored)

Takeaway The stock is trading above its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 86.04 to 87.68. Being above it means the medium-term picture is pointing upwards, and that band is the first place the stock has recent support if it slips back. Its shorter-term averages agree with that.

Trailing returns

21 days +5.2%
63 days +27.2%
126 days +20.8%
252 days +68.1%
Below 252d high4.0%

Trend context

PositionFar above trend
ExtensionExtremely extended
Trend slopeRising
Direction of travelDiverging from trend

Takeaway Extreme upside extension is still moving away from fair trend; chase risk is elevated.

Volatility

State In a squeeze
Current band width15.2% of price
Recent tightest10.5% (7 sessions ago, narrower than 98.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.45×
Band 81.28 — 94.65

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 15% wide, and it recently went unusually quiet — calmer than it has been 98% of the time. When a stock goes quiet like this, its next move tends to look big by comparison. But quiet says nothing about which way it will go: Brown Bear tested calm-before-a-move as a reason to buy, and it did not work.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 83.52–93.142026-07-032026-08-12
Position Health Business Conviction Share price

History begins when the site started recording, not when the company listed, so a short line means a short record and nothing more.

Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑

Insider activity

ActivityNo filings in the window
Buy filings0
Sell filings0

Open-market Form 4 purchases and sales over the last 75 days, read from SEC EDGAR Form 4. Grants, option exercises, gifts and shares withheld for tax are excluded — they are compensation mechanics, not a decision to buy or sell. Reported Form 4 activity. Brown Bear tested insider cluster-buying as a return signal and rejected it as era-unstable; shown as fact, not signal.

Volume confirmation

Volume-price trend Above its signal line
Confirmation Marginal

No absorption or distribution event in the recent window.

Takeaway Slightly more shares change hands on rising days than on falling ones, but the gap is too small to read anything into.

Options Positioning

No binary-event flag

DAL: no binary-event flag. Near IV 35%, far IV 39% (ratio 0.90), implied move 4.4%.

Implied volatility 35% near (9d) · 39% far (128d)
Term structure 0.90× near/far
Historical volatility 36%
Implied vs historical 0.99×
Implied move ±4.4% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.57×
Skew Flat (0.93×)
Put wall 38.00 (-57.7% away)
Gamma pin 38.00

Takeaway Insuring against a move in this stock costs less for the next few weeks than for the next few months, which is the normal state of affairs and suggests no particular date is worrying anyone. Options traders are positioned for a move of around 4.4% in either direction by 2026-08-21.

Chain as at 2026-08-12. This is a risk read on whether a specific event is being priced — not a directional view.

Context & Methodthe record, and how it was builtTop ↑

Relative Rotation

ImprovingLeadingLaggingWeakeningvs sectorvs SPYsector vs SPYRS-Ratio →RS-Momentum →

Leadership Cooling

Rotation health 61.5/100; Positive Rotation.

Rotation health 61.5
Rotation strength 51.5
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Improving 98.2 106.7
Stock vs SPY Improving 94.8 107.3
Sector vs SPY Improving 87.2 105.9

Direction of travel: South-East / trend strong but momentum cooling

Position only. Brown Bear's RRG redesign programme is closed — five constructions, none beat an appropriate null — so this section describes where the name sits, and is not a signal.

News Headlines

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Detailed Scoring

Positive signals

  • Piotroski F-score 7/9 (+20.0)
  • Insider conviction score (+5.0)
  • ROIC quality: 12.8% (+6.7)
  • FCF margin quality: 13.2% (+8.8)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.041) (+2.0)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram state (0.07) (+3.0)
  • Track 1: bullish DI spread 27.8 (+8.0)
  • Track 1: ADX 34.4 and flat (+6.0)
  • Track 1: relative momentum rank 0.90 (+5.0)
  • Track 1: EMA20 reclaim distance 1.0% (+7.2)
  • Track 1: EMA20 slope improving 1.1% (+2.7)
  • Track 1: positive MACD regime (+3.0)
  • Track 1: RSI recovery 65.7, 5-day change +3.0 (+0.7)
  • Track 1: VPT strength 0.01 (+0.1)
  • Track 1: price above EMA50 by 4.9% (+3.1)
  • Track 1: EMA50 slope improving 2.9% (+3.0)
  • Track 1: EMA50 support proximity 4.9% (+0.9)
  • Track 1: Bollinger position 0.65 (+2.8)

Negative signals

  • Track 1: weak volume confirmation (0.49x average)
  • Relative strength versus sector deteriorating
  • Track 1: MACD histogram deteriorating (-0.58)
  • Below-average Altman Z-score (1.55)
  • Gross margin improving by -5.9 pts (+-3.0)

Chase risk is not elevated for this name, so extension penalties are omitted from the negative signals above.