Airlines outperformed S&P 500 last year by a wide margin
U.S. airline stocks in the Standard&Poor's 500 outperformed the index as a whole by a wide margin during 1997. Airlines rose 68.2%, compared with S&P 500's 31% gain. In the fourth quarter, the spread was 23.9% for airlines and 2.4% for the S&P 500. (See charts on Pages 17-19.)
Subscription Required
This content requires a subscription to one of the Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) bundles.
Schedule a demo today to find out how you can access this content and similar content related to your area of the global aviation industry.
Already an AWIN subscriber? Login
Did you know? Aviation Week has won top honors multiple times in the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards, the business-to-business media equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes.




