Just a heads-up for any traders out there. Easyjet seems to be bouncing back after its 20% fall during the week.

MM's seem to be walking the price up.

Right now we have EZJ Bid: 608.5p Offer: 609p Change: 11, was up 13 a few minutes back.

EasyJet hits record after Goldman rethink

By Bryce Elder

In the three years since Goldman Sachs removed EasyJet from its “buy” list, the stock has gained 213 per cent. Yesterday, after a change of lead analyst, it was added back.

Goldman forecast EasyJet to return £1.5bn to shareholders between 2016 and 2018.
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While fare growth was likely to stall, network expansion and cost savings could still deliver annual earnings growth of around 11 per cent, the broker argued.

“We believe EasyJet will continue to capitalise on significant growth opportunities in the European short-haul market as legacy carriers further restructure their inefficient cost bases,” said analyst Alexia Dogani, who was poached by Goldman in July from Liberum Capital.

“Any potential Alitalia network restructuring would also offer a growth opportunity as EasyJet has the largest overlap on its short-haul network.”

Goldman had a £19.60 target on EasyJet

Going well today .

Yep lovely.

EASYJET PASSENGER STATISTICS FOR DECEMBER 2013

December passengers 4,490,538, up 3.5 percent * Load factor 87.9% *
is that any better or worse than expected?

EZJ overtakes rival Ryan Air plus below.......

and EZJ aren't a bunch of shysters either!

get emm bought then.

On passengers who forget to print their boarding passes: "We think they should pay €60 for being so stupid."

That's O Leary doing a Gerald Ratner ,everyone should have stopped using his airline.

easyJet Given “Buy” Rating at Beaufort Securities (EZJ)
Posted by Stuart Ham on Jan 8th, 2014


easyJet logoeasyJet (LON:EZJ)‘s stock had its “buy” rating reaffirmed by Beaufort Securities in a research note issued on Wednesday, Stock Ratings Network reports.

Shares of easyJet (LON:EZJ) opened at 1616.00 on Wednesday. easyJet has a 1-year low of GBX 816.97 and a 1-year high of GBX 1615.00. The stock has a 50-day moving average of GBX 1473. and a 200-day moving average of GBX 1348.81. The company’s market cap is £6.352 billion.
Several other analysts have also recently commented on the stock. Analysts at Goodbody Stockbrokers Ltd reiterated a “buy” rating on shares of easyJet in a research note to investors on Friday, December 13th. Separately, analysts at Barclays reiterated an “overweight” rating on shares of easyJet in a research note to investors on Tuesday, December 10th. They now have a GBX 1,530 ($25.09) price target on the stock. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, seven have assigned a hold rating and eighteen have assigned a buy rating to the stock. The stock currently has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of GBX 1,414.71 ($23.20).
easyJet plc (LON:EZJ) is an airline carrier operating in Europe.

sticky - i already hold

EasyJet upgraded by Credit Suisse
13th January 2014, 15:36

Analysts at Credit Suisse have upgraded their recommendation on airline carrier EasyJet [LON:EZJ] to ‘outperform’ from ‘neutral’ believing the market has yet to price in, what they calculate to be, a 43 per cent growth in earnings and a 23 per cent increase in cashflow over the next three years.

The broker has upped its price target by 31 per cent to 1,988 pence per share (previously 1,518 pence) which implies a potential total shareholder return of around 26 per cent.

“While EZJ has performed strongly in recent years, we view it as a multi-year margin accretion story, and accordingly see an attractive multi-year value proposition,” the broker said.

“We view margin build-out as key to the easyJet investment case, and our analysis of both volume and pricing opportunities open to EZJ suggests the current stock price implies low market expectations for future margin appreciation for current peak levels.”

The shares of EasyJet have almost doubled in the past twelve months and are up by 33 per cent in the last three months.

At 3:32pm: EasyJet share price was up 44.5 pence at 1,693.5 pence

sticky - replied to your e earlier ... did you get it?

Yep, sent one back.

and ditto again :-)

Ex-divi wed 26th Feb (77.6p)

Wed 22 Jan 2014
easyJet's first quarter is expected to have been disrupted by the power outage the Gatwick North Terminal over Christmas and winter storms, Numis said ahead of the airline's results on Thursday.

However, the broker believes that overall the disruption is unlikely to have had a material negative impact relative to the prior year.

It said: "Our confidence in the future for EasyJet is based on: the quality of its route network (the right slot times at slot-restricted airports); the opportunity to continue to take share from legacy carries; prospects of increased share of business traffic as the hard work that EasyJet has done with GDS providers (Amadeus etc) and travel management companies starts to bear fruit; likely future benefit from yield managing allocation seating; and, a management team that remains focused on improving returns for shareholders."

The broker recommended an 'add' rating and target price of 1,900p.

easyJet's shares have risen 35% since the company's preliminary results on November 1st 2013. At the time of the results the carrier painted a bright outlook for its future and propsed a return to shareholders of £175m via a special dividend of 44.1p per shares.

Forward bookings for the first half of 2014 were said to be in line with the previous year. EasyJet also anticipated cost per seat, excluding fuel, to rise by 2% in the first half. Revenue was tipped to grow by 2%.

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Budget airline easyJet said seats flown grew by 4.1% to 16.1 million in the quarter to end-December. Passengers carried increased by 4.2% to 14.3 million, and the load factor increased by 0.1 percentage points to 88.7%.

Revenue per seat grew as expected by 3.4% on a reported basis to £55.71 per seat or by 1.4% at constant currency despite strong prior year comparators from post-Olympic trading in the UK and a challenging competitive environment. The growth in revenue per seat was driven by careful management of capacity, combined with the performance of allocated seating and the management of fees and charges. Revenue per seat also benefited from longer average sector lengths in the quarter.

Cost per seat excluding fuel increased by 3.0% on a reported basis and by 1.2% on a constant currency basis. This was driven by anticipated increases in charges at regulated airports and by increases in maintenance costs associated with the planned ageing of the fleet and increased proportion of leased aircraft.

easyJet announced a new base in Naples which will be operational from Spring 2014 and the routes which will be flown from its new base in Hamburg.

The group had a strong balance sheet with cash and money market deposits of £1.1 billion as at 31 December 2013.

With first half bookings in line with last year, easyJet expects to report a first half loss before tax of between £70 million and £90 million assuming normal levels of disruption compared to the £61 million loss reported in the first half of last year. Last year Easter fell on 31 March resulting in £25 million additional revenue in the first half of 2013. In this financial year Easter will fall in April.

Carolyn McCall, CEO, said:

"easyJet has made a good start to the year. We have delivered revenue per seat growth in the quarter against a challenging competitive environment and the tough comparison with the prior year. The performance in the quarter demonstrates our continued focus on cost, progress against our strategic priorities and easyJet's structural advantage in the European short-haul market against both the legacy and low-cost competition.

Our strategy of offering our customers low fares to great destinations with friendly service and a focus on cost control ensures that we can continue to deliver sustainable growth and returns for our shareholders."

easyJet upgraded by Investec
25th March 2014, 15:20

Investec has upgraded its recommendation on easyJet [LON:EZJ] to ‘buy’ from ‘hold’ after the company released a trading update and stated that it expects to deliver a first half performance ahead of previous guidance.

The broker put the guidance beat down to cost savings being realised ahead of schedule and solid but expected yield growth, with revenue per seat up by 1.5 per cent, despite the busy Easter period falling into the second half of the year.

Analysts have upped their price target slightly to 1,800 pence per share (previously 1,750 pence).

Separately, Credit Suisse repeated its bullish ‘outperform’ investment rating and increased its price target to 2,021 pence a share from 1,980 pence.

The broker said: “We continue to see EZJ as a multi-year value proposition, and reiterate our view expressed in our Ideas Engine note "Network quality presents margin opportunity" on 13 January 2014 that EZJ should be able to capitalise on attractive medium term volume and pricing opportunities.”

Meanwhile, Numis and Cantor Fitzgerald reaffirmed ‘add’ and ‘hold’ calls, respectively.

Cantor said: “Solid trading and lower losses guided, some investors might be disappointed that the revised guidance was not better with strong recent traffic data, poor UK weather and a healthy ski season.”

At 3:17pm: easyJet share price was up 67.5 pence at 1,699.5 pence.

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