SkyWest Historical PE Ratio
This SKYW historical PE ratio page, which was last updated 8/28/2026, presents historical price to earnings information for SkyWest under both the TTM method and
the annualized method, and presented in both tabular and graphical format for ease of study.
SKYW Historical PE Ratio Notes
— SkyWest, Inc. (SKYW) operates as a leading regional airline in North America, providing passenger & cargo services primarily through contracts with major carriers, including Delta, United, American, & Alaska Airlines. Rather than selling tickets under its own brand, SkyWest flies under these partners' banners via ȁccapacity purchase agreements,ȁd earning fixed payments for operating flights, while the major airlines handle ticket pricing, marketing, & revenue risk. This unique business model typically makes SkyWest's revenues more stable than airlines exposed to volatile ticket sales, but it also caps potential upside during industry booms. Historical price-to-earnings (PE) ratios for SKYW thus often reflect the market's recognition of its steady, contract-driven cash flows, as well as its vulnerability to changes in contract terms, fuel costs, & pilot labor dynamics. When reviewing SKYW's historical price, earnings, & PE ratio charts, consider that spikes or drops in valuation multiples often correspond to fluctuations in airline industry sentiment, macroeconomic cycles, renegotiations of key contracts, or operational disruptions. Over time, investors have tended to award SKYW a lower PE than growth airlines, reflecting its dependable yet modestly growing earnings profile, as well as industry-specific risks such as pilot shortages or cost inflation.
How should the SKYW historical PE ratio be determined?
Realizing that PE stands for Price to Earnings ratio, we need two values to compute it: stock price and earnings per share. The stock price at any given date is a known historical value, but what about the earnings number to use?
✔️Accepted answer:
There are a number of different approaches when it comes to calculating a historical PE ratio for a company like SkyWest. We like to take our measurements on each of the past quarterly earnings reports. That only leaves the question of whether the earnings number at that quarterly report should be used on an annualized basis, or some other method. We approach this question using three different methods, on this SKYW Historical PE Ratio page.
What is the average historical PE for SKYW based on annualized quarterly earnings?
As we look back through earnings history, what is the resulting PE calculation if at each measurement period we use that quarter's earnings result annualized?
✔️Accepted answer:
The SKYW historical PE ratio using the annualized quarterly earnings method works out to 14.2.
What is the average historical PE for SKYW based on trailing twelve month earnings?
As we look back through earnings history, what is the resulting PE calculation if at each measurement period we use the trailing twelve months combined earnings result in the calculation?
✔️Accepted answer:
The SKYW historical PE ratio using the TTM earnings method works out to 14.7.
What is the average historical PE for SKYW based on median TTM earnings?
As we look back through earnings history, what is the resulting PE calculation if at each measurement period we use the median earnings over the trailing twelve months and annualize that median result in the calculation?
✔️Accepted answer:
The SKYW historical PE ratio using the annualized median TTM earnings method works out to 9.52.
On this page we presented the
SkyWest Historical PE Ratio information for SkyWest' stock.
The average SKYW historical PE based on using the annualized quarterly earnings result at each measurement period (for the "E" in the PE calculation; and the closing price on earnings date as the "P") is 14.2. Meanwhile, using the trailing twelve month (TTM) quarterly earnings result as our method of calculation the "E" value at each measurement period, the average SKYW historical PE based on this TTM earnings result method is 14.7. Note: any PE calculations involving negative earnings were discarded as not meaningful.
Let's now compare this SKYW historical PE result, against the recent PE: when this page was posted on 8/27/2026, the most recent closing price for SKYW had been 98.87, and the most recent quarterly earnings result, annualized, was 10.16. Meanwhile, the most recent TTM earnings summed to 9.77. From these numbers, we calculate the recent SKYW PE on 8/27/2026 based on annualized quarterly EPS was 9.7. Based on SKYW's history, that recent PE is low relative to the historical average, with the recent PE 31.7% lower than the historical average PE across our data set for SkyWest. Looking at the recent SKYW PE on 8/27/2026 based on TTM EPS, we calculate the ratio at 10.1. Based on SKYW's history, that recent PE is low relative to the historical average, with the recent PE 31.3% lower than the average PE across our SkyWest data set with TTM EPS used in the calculation at each period.
Another interesting SKYW historical PE Ratio calculation we look at is to take the
median earnings per share of the last four quarters for SKYW, and then annualize the resulting value... with that annualized number then being used in the PE calculation. To walk through this math for SKYW, we start with the past four EPS numbers and we first sort them from lowest to highest: 2.21, 2.21, 2.54, and 2.81. We then toss out the highest and lowest result, and then take the average of those two middle numbers — 2.21 and 2.54 — which gives us the median of 2.38. Basically the way to think about this 2.38 number is this: for the trailing four earnings reports, 2.38 marks the "middle ground" number where SKYW has reported a value
higher than 2.38 half the time, and has reported a value
lower than 2.38 half the time. Annualizing that median value then gets us to 9.52/share, which we use as the denominator in our next PE calculation. With 98.87 as the numerator (as of 8/27/2026), the calculation is then 98.87 / 9.52 =
10.4 as the SKYW PE ratio as of 8/27/2026, based on that annualized median value we calculated.
For self directed investors doing their due diligence on SKYW or any other given stock, valuation analysis for SKYW
can greatly benefit from studying the past earnings and resulting PE calculations. This exercise can help inform an analysis
as to whether the past earnings trajectory and current versus historical PE ratios justify the current stock value.
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