Delta Air Lines, Inc. (DAL)

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Delta Air Lines, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Delta Air Lines, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $39 billion in fiscal 2016 to $63 billion in fiscal 2025, up 5.4% a year; it rose in 8 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 64% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Delta Air Lines, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 0.7% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 4% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 36 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-09 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Delta Air Lines, Inc. earned about 24 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 74 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.9% over the year (the filed statements).

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Delta Air Lines, Inc.'s standing among 14 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $63 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 4% by size; a net margin of 7.9% ranks in the top 32%; revenue growth of 7.8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 46% (its annual reports).

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Delta Air Lines, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Bastian, Edward H (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2016-05-10, 10.5 years (top 25% of its family); the 26 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.4 years (bottom 39%); 10 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 26 people in charge now (top 32%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Delta Air Lines, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $4.3 billion against debt of $13 billion leaves -11.1% of its assets as net cash, top 34% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 6.1% of revenue (top 39%) (its annual report).

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Delta Air Lines, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 7.8% a year over the last three filed years against 5.4% over all 10, speeding up (top 32% of its family); the newest year grew 2.8% (bottom 32%); capital spending grew -10.9% a year (bottom 19%) (its annual reports). Delta Air Lines, Inc. reported 9 product lines in fiscal 2025: Passenger Air Traffic at $45 billion (71%), Product and Service Other Refinery at $5.1 billion (8%), Passenger Loyalty Travel Awards at $4.2 billion (7%), and 6 more; 9 of 9 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Delta Air Lines, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $63 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 6.9% below the $68 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 25% of its family); net income of $5.0 billion against a prior three-year average of $3.1 billion (top 32%); a net margin of 7.9% against 5.4% before (top 39%) (its annual reports).