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United Airlines Financials
Background
United Continental Holding, Inc., and its subsidiaries such as the United Airlines, majors
in providing air transportation services in the Asia-pacific, North America, the Middle East,
Latin America and Africa. The company ferries cargo and people through its regional and
mainline operations. The company also operates other businesses including selling fuels, offering
maintenance, and ground handling services for third parties, and catering services. The
company’s main competitors include Delta air Lines and other American airlines. This report,
however, focuses on the financial performance of the company for the last three years in
comparison with its industry competitor, Delta Air Lines (Yahoo Finance, 2017).
Financial performance
Profit margin- it is a profitability ratio which evaluates the percentage of net income of a
company in comparison to its net sales/revenues (Bodie, 2013). It is calculated as follows;
𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑖𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑛 =
United Airlines
2016
2015
Revenue
Net
income
Profit
margin
𝑁𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒
𝑁𝑒𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑢𝑒
2014
Delta Airlines
2016
2015
2014
36,556.00
37,864.00
38,901.00
39,639.00
40,704.00
40,362.00
2,263.00
7,340....