Air China Valuation

Q: What is the Fair Price of AIRY.Y when looking at its future cash flows? For this estimate we use a Discounted Cash Flow model.

AIRY.Y ($15.12) is trading below our estimate of [[fair value]] ($26.22)

Is AIRY.Y undervalued compared to its fair value, analyst forecasts and its price relative to the market?

Valuation Score

3/6

Valuation Score 3/6

Below Fair Value
Significantly Below Fair Value
Price-To-Sales vs Peers
Price-To-Sales vs Industry
Price-To-Sales vs Fair Ratio
Analyst Forecast

Share Price vs Fair Value

What is the Fair Price of AIRY.Y when looking at its future cash flows? For this estimate we use a Discounted Cash Flow model.

DiscountedCashFlow

Community Contributor

US$26.22

Fair Value

42.3% undervalued

Number of Analysts

Below Fair Value: AIRY.Y ($15.12) is trading below our estimate of fair value ($26.22)

Significantly Below Fair Value: AIRY.Y is trading below fair value by more than 20%.

Key Valuation Metric

Which metric is best to use when looking at relative valuation for AIRY.Y?

Key metric: As AIRY.Y is barely profitable we use its Price-To-Sales Ratio for relative valuation analysis.

The above table shows the Price to Sales ratio for AIRY.Y. This is calculated by dividing AIRY.Y's market cap by their current revenue.
What is AIRY.Y's PS Ratio?
PS Ratio	0.5x
Sales	CN¥168.38b
Market Cap	CN¥125.18b

AIRY.Y key valuation metrics and ratios. From Price to Earnings, Price to Sales and Price to Book to Price to Earnings Growth Ratio, Enterprise Value and EBITDA.
Key Statistics
Enterprise Value/Revenue	1.9x
Enterprise Value/EBITDA	21.8x
PEG Ratio	3.7x

Price to Sales Ratio vs Peers

How does AIRY.Y's PS Ratio compare to its peers?

The above table shows the PS ratio for AIRY.Y vs its peers. Here we also display the market cap and forecasted growth for additional consideration.
Company	Forward PS	Estimated Growth	Market Cap
Peer Average	0.5x
LUV Southwest Airlines	0.6x	6.18%	US$15.7b
UAL United Airlines Holdings	0.5x	5.40%	US$30.4b
DAL Delta Air Lines	0.6x	2.86%	US$37.2b
AAL American Airlines Group	0.2x	4.81%	US$8.7b
AIRY.Y Air China	0.5x	6.71%	US$136.7b

Price-To-Sales vs Peers: AIRY.Y is expensive based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (0.5x) compared to the peer average (0.5x).

Price to Sales Ratio vs Industry

How does AIRY.Y's PS Ratio compare vs other companies in the US Airlines Industry?

4 Companies	Price / Sales	Estimated Growth	Market Cap
SAVE.Q Spirit Airlines	0.01x	2.70%	US$50.71m
FLYY.Q Spirit Aviation Holdings	0.002x	n/a	US$9.32m
ESKN.F Esken	0.008x	6.86%	US$1.22m
KLMR KLM Royal Dutch Airlines	0.000002x	n/a	US$28.09k

No more companies available in this PS range

4 Companies		Estimated Growth	Market Cap

No more companies

Price-To-Sales vs Industry: AIRY.Y is good value based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (0.5x) compared to the North American Airlines industry average (0.5x).

Price to Sales Ratio vs Fair Ratio

What is AIRY.Y's PS Ratio compared to its Fair PS Ratio? This is the expected PS Ratio taking into account the company's forecast earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors.

AIRY.Y PS Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PS Ratio	0.5x
Fair PS Ratio	n/a

Price-To-Sales vs Fair Ratio: Insufficient data to calculate AIRY.Y's Price-To-Sales Fair Ratio for valuation analysis.

Analyst Price Targets

What is the analyst 12-month forecast and do we have any statistical confidence in the consensus price target?

AnalystPriceTarget

Community Contributor

US$14.05

Fair Value

7.6% overvalued

Number of Analysts

Analyst Forecast: Insufficient data to show price forecast.

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Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/11/01 09:32
End of Day Share Price	2025/10/16 00:00
Earnings	2025/09/30
Annual Earnings	2024/12/31

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

^* Example for US securities, for non-US equivalent regulatory forms and sources are used.

Unless specified all financial data is based on a yearly period but updated quarterly. This is known as Trailing Twelve Month (TTM) or Last Twelve Month (LTM) Data. Learn more.

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Analyst Sources

Air China Limited is covered by 46 analysts. 8 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
Patrick Xu	Barclays
Nathan Gee	BofA Global Research
Shichen Han	BofA Global Research