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Delta Air Lines DAL Earnings yield

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Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$15.9B+12.9%
Operating income$501.0M-12.0%
Net income-$289.0M-220%
EPS (diluted)-$0.44-219%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$5.2B+32.8%
Total debt$19.4B-10.0%
Total equity$20.4B+31.9%
Total assets$84.4B+9.2%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$2.4B+2.3%

Valuation

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Market cap$55.31B+54.2%
Enterprise value$69.44B+25.8%
P/E12.4×+2.6×
P/S0.9×+0.3×

Profitability

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Operating margin8.8%-0.8pp
Net margin6.9%+1.0pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity25%-2.5pp
Debt / equity-0.4×
Current ratio0.4×0.0×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Delta Air Lines’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Delta Air Lines’s 10-Q, filed April 8, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Delta Air Lines's earnings yield?
Delta Air Lines (DAL) reported earnings yield of 10.3% in Q1 2026.
How has Delta Air Lines's earnings yield changed year-over-year?
Delta Air Lines's earnings yield decreased by 20.7% year-over-year, from 13% to 10.3%.
What is the long-term trend for Delta Air Lines's earnings yield?
Over 5 years (2020 to 2025), Delta Air Lines's earnings yield has grown at a -25.6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from -48.4% to 11%.
What does earnings yield mean?
The company's annual profit as a percentage of its market price — the flip side of the P/E.
How do you interpret earnings yield?
Higher means more earnings per dollar invested. Easy to compare directly against bond yields to judge the relative attractiveness of equity.
How does earnings yield compare across companies?
Comparable across profitable companies and against fixed-income yields; undefined when earnings are negative.