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Easyjet - Low cost airline's deep pockets ensure it's well placed to exploit recovery

October 2022

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

It’s a measure of how poor investor sentiment is that even a terrific update from travel agency giant TUI, which said summer bookings in July and August had recovered to 93% of 2019 levels, couldn’t lift the cloud hanging over that industry. Nevertheless, history shows that taking a contrarian approach in a beaten up sector like travel often leads to very large share price gains for those with the patience to back companies boasting market leading positions. My second share this month is therefore Easyjet, whose shares have tumbled all the way back from highs of over £15 in 2015 to the current 359p. In a similar vein to investing in residential property, where places such as Mayfair and Knightsbridge are like gold dust because of their ...

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Easyjet - £3 billion war-chest leaves it well-placed to exploit recovery in budget flights (September 2020)

Easyjet (August 2020)

Easyjet (June 2020)

Easyjet (August 2019)

Easyjet - Low cost airline looks oversold (March 2019)

Easyjet (February 2019)

Easyjet - Eps to grow 82% in two years (September 2018)

Easyjet (July 2018)

Easyjet (February 2018)

Easyjet (December 2017)

Easyjet - Low cost airline raises guidance; new price target (September 2017)

Easyjey - Low cost airline sees better outlook (June 2017)

Easyjet (July 2016)

Easyjet (March 2016)

Easyjet - Upgrades full year profit guidance (October 2015)

Easyjet - Low cost carrier sports terrific growth record (September 2015)

Easyjet - Trading ahead of expectations (May 2015)

Easyjet - Barclays sets Â£21.50 price target (March 2015)

Easyjet - Low cost airline still taking market share from flag carriers (November 2014)

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