Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V.
VLRSControladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V.'s three tracks disagree. Price, valuation and the earnings engine each tell a different story — the next quarter or two settles it.
The sharpest disagreement: the price moved +45.6% in a year while annual EPS moved −183.3% — the difference is re-rating, and re-rating has to be repaid with earnings.
The price is between stages. Underneath, the last four quarters read mixed, and 1,044% of the last 3 years' profit arrived as cash. What settles it: whether earnings grow into a price that has already moved.
Price story Before the numbers, the tape. A stock price moves through four repeating seasons: a flat base (stage 1), an advance (2), a top (3), a decline (4). Where the price sits in that cycle frames everything below.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. trades at $7.9, between stages. That is −0.5% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 48% of a 52-week range of $6 to $10. On relative strength it has been ahead of the S&P 500 on a trailing-13-week view for 1 straight week.
Today the stock is between stages. At $7.9 it trades −0.5% versus its 200-day average and sits at 48% of its 52-week range ($6–$10).
Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 1.0 years the stock moved +61% while the S&P 500 moved +19% — ahead of the index over the full window. Recent form: on a trailing-13-week view the stock has been ahead for 1 straight week — the ribbon below is that same metric, week by week.
What would end the trend, mechanically: two Friday closes in a row below the 200-day line. That is the exit rule — no debates.
→ The trend is one thing; the bill is another. Are you paying up for it? Next: how the P/E reads against its own history.
Valuation P/E is the price of $1 of annual profit: how many dollars the market pays for each dollar the company earns in a year.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. trades at 18.4× P/E, against too little history to rank. Its long-run median P/E is 17.1×, measured across 0.3 years of weekly readings. This places the multiple against the stock’s own record, and says nothing about what the business is worth.
Today's P/E of 18.4× is against too little history to rank, against a long-run median of 17.1× measured over 0.3 years of weekly readings. This is a comparison against the stock's own history — not a claim about what it is worth.
🚨 Why the multiple sits where it does: over the past year annual EPS moved −183.3% against a +45.6% price move — the price outran earnings, pushing the multiple UP its own range.
Put together: the multiple is unremarkable against its own past, so the story rests on the earnings line underneath it, not the multiple.
→ Cheap or dear rides on the earnings. Are they actually growing? Next: the fundamental stage — where the business sits in its arc, and how growth has compounded.
Stage: No read Every business sits somewhere on a fundamental arc, and this page names the spot before anything else. The last twelve quarters of revenue, profit and EPS growth — plus the return the business earns on its capital — are read as curves: Deteriorating (the curves are falling), Turning around (a trough has just formed and the last few quarters lift off it), Improving (the climb off the trough is sustained), Consistent (steadily positive with healthy returns), Topping out (still high but decelerating from the peak). When the curves genuinely disagree the read is Mixed; too little history is No read. CAGR (compound annual growth rate) is the smooth yearly pace that turns the starting value into the latest one — the fairest way to compare growth across different time spans. Read the columns together: if the 1-year number towers over the 10-year, recent growth is running hotter than the long-run trend. A dash means that window is not held, or the base year was a loss (where a growth rate is not meaningful).
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. reads as no read on its fundamental arc. Under eight usable quarters on the growth trio — not enough history for an honest trajectory read. The read is built from 12 quarters across 2 curves, on partial evidence.
Why it matters: with too little history, an honest page says so instead of guessing a trajectory.
The latest quarter’s profit carries a one-off item larger than the operating base, so the profit curve is shown but does not vote in the stage call.
One or more growth curves carry a base-effect spike — a large year-on-year move off a near-zero or loss-making comparable quarter. Those spikes are capped before the classifier reads the trajectory, and shown pinned on the chart, so a single distorted quarter does not drive the stage call.
Fewer than eight usable quarters on the growth curves — this page will not guess a trajectory from a stub of history.
| 1yr | 3yr | 5yr | 10yr | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | −3.2% | +2.2% | — | — |
| Stock price | +45.6% | — | — | — |
→ The stage names the trajectory. Next: the revenue line that produces it, quarter by quarter.
4-Factor Sector Score
34.3/100 — rank 14 of 16 in Airlines · 53% evidence confidence
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. scores 34.3 out of 100 against the 16 companies it is compared with in Airlines, ranking 14. Fill the missing evidence before acting; the ranking is deliberately pulled toward neutral.
The four contributions add to the total exactly: 13.9 + 3.8 + 10.4 + 6.2 = 34.3. This is the SAME number shown on the sector comparison — it is computed once, for the whole peer set, and read here.
What would change it: The read weakens if profit growth turns negative or margin improvement reverses while sector-relative strength deteriorates.
Revenue Revenue is the top line: everything the company billed its customers in the period.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. reported $0.8 B of revenue in the Mar 26 quarter, +13.2% year on year. That is the 2nd straight quarter of year-on-year growth. Over 4 years it has compounded at 8.4% a year. The last full year, FY25, came in at $3.0 B. The last four reported quarters add to $3.1 B.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. reported $0.8 B of revenue in the Mar 26 quarter, +13.2% year on year. That is the 2nd straight quarter of year-on-year growth. Over 4 years it has compounded at 8.4% a year. The last full year, FY25, came in at $3.0 B. The last four reported quarters add to $3.1 B.
FY25 revenue came in at $3.0 B (−3.2% on the year), capping 4 years at 8.4% compound. The latest quarter (Mar 26) printed $0.8 B, +13.2% year on year — the 2nd consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth.
Pace check: the last four quarters averaged +2.5% growth against the decade's 8.4% — the current year is running slower than its own long-run rate.
Acceleration check: trailing-twelve-month revenue grew +2.3% over the last 4 quarters against −2.8%/yr over the last 8 — accelerating.
→ Revenue grew — did margins hold as it scaled? Next: −2.6% this quarter (−1.1 pp YoY).
Operating margin Operating margin is what is left of every $100 of sales after running the business, before interest and tax. It is the cleanest read on pricing power and cost control.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V.'s operating margin is −2.6% in the Mar 26 quarter, −1.1 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. Across 5 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 1.4% to 18.2%. The current quarter is running below every full year in that window.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V.'s operating margin is −2.6% in the Mar 26 quarter, −1.1 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. Across 5 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 1.4% to 18.2%. The current quarter is running below every full year in that window.
The latest quarter's operating margin is −2.6%, −1.1 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 5 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged 1.4%–18.2%.
🚨 Why the margin moved: operating margin went −1.1 pp year on year while gross margin went +0.0 pp — the loss came mostly below the gross line: operating leverage, with costs spread over a bigger revenue base.
→ Margins slipped — did that reach the bottom line? Next: profit null in the latest quarter.
Net profit Net profit is what survives every cost, interest and tax — the number EPS, dividends and book value all grow from.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. posted a net loss of $0.1 B in the Mar 26 quarter. The full FY25 year was a loss of $0.1 B. That loss is 14.3% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier lost $0.1 B. 4 of the last 12 reported quarters were loss-making.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. posted a net loss of $0.1 B in the Mar 26 quarter. The full FY25 year was a loss of $0.1 B. That loss is 14.3% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier lost $0.1 B. 4 of the last 12 reported quarters were loss-making.
Mar 26 profit was $−0.1 B, null year on year. On the full year, FY25 printed $−0.1 B (−176.9%).
Pace comparison, last four quarters: profit −291.7% vs revenue +2.5%. Profit is growing slower than sales — costs are eating the growth before it reaches the bottom line.
→ Profit rose — but did the cash follow? Next: 1,044% of the last 3 years' profit arrived as cash.
Cash flow — the router The P&L says what was earned; the cash-flow statement says what actually arrived. Operating cash flow (CFO) against profit is the cleanest lie detector in the accounts.
Over the last 3 fiscal years 1,044% of Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V.'s reported profit arrived as operating cash — the cash follows the profit. In FY25 that was $0.8 B of operating cash against $−0.1 B of profit. After $0.3 B of capital spending, $0.5 B was left as free cash.
FY25: operating cash of $0.8 B against reported profit of $−0.1 B, leaving free cash of $0.5 B after $0.3 B of capital spending. Across the last 3 fiscal years the conversion rate is 1,044% of profit.
Cash-flow readings here are annual — that is the resolution our series carries, so this section moves once a year.
Why: conversion is measured cleanly, but the working-capital day-counts behind it sit below what we hold — the move is shown without inventing its driver.
Router verdict: the visible cash user is investment — the next section checks what the spending is buying.
→ So follow the cash to where it goes. Next: $1.0 B of building over 3 years.
Where the cash goes Working capital is the cash tied up between paying suppliers and getting paid: debtor days (customers owe), inventory days (stock waits), and the cash conversion cycle (the whole loop, in days of sales).
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. does not report the debtor, inventory and payable day-counts a cash cycle is built from, so this section reads the investment side instead. Capital spending ran $1.0 B over the last 3 years. Averaged over those years that is 11.0% of FY25 revenue a year.
Working-capital day-counts are not in our numbers for this stock, so this section reads the investment side — where the cash is being put to work.
On the investment side: capital spending of $1.0 B over the last 3 fiscal years.
The synthesis: the cash is going into capacity, not disappearing into the cycle — the question becomes whether the new capacity earns.
→ Does all this activity actually earn its cost of capital? Next: ROE is −117% and the ROIC − WACC spread is −6.5 pp.
Return on equity Return on equity (ROE) is the profit the business earns on its shareholders’ money. With the full capital-employed split not in our numbers, ROE is the cleanest long ladder we can draw here.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. earns a ROE of −39% in FY25. Return on invested capital clears the cost of that capital by −6.5 percentage points, so growth here is not yet paying for the capital it uses. The wiring behind it is −3.3% net margin on 0.54× asset turns.
FY25 ROE is −39%.
🚨 Why the return is what it is — the wiring (FY25): −3.3% net margin × 0.54× asset turns × 21.69× balance-sheet leverage ≈ −38.7% on equity. Margin does its share; leverage is a meaningful part of the equation.
The capstone test — ROIC − WACC: 0.3% − 6.8% = a −6.5 pp spread. The 6.8% is an estimate of this company's own cost of capital — read the sign and the size of the spread, not the decimals. Negative — growth at these returns destroys value until the returns recover.
→ Returns like these — is the balance sheet borrowing to make them? Next: debt-to-equity is 56.75.
Dividend
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. pays no dividend. Across the last 12 reported quarters it has declared no dividend per share, so there is no payout history to chart and no yield to quote.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. does not currently pay a dividend. Across the last 12 reported quarters the company has declared no dividend per share, so there is no payout history to chart and no yield to quote. Companies at this stage typically reinvest earnings instead of distributing them.
→ No payout to follow. The cash question becomes what the business does with what it earns instead.
Debt Debt-to-equity says how much of the business is funded by borrowings. Low is the safe corner; the trend matters as much as the level.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. carries total debt of $3.9 B against shareholder equity of $0.1 B as of Jun 26, a debt-to-equity of 55.14. On the annual view that ratio went from 8.13 in FY21 to 14.85 in FY25. Read the returns elsewhere on this page with that leverage in mind.
Jun 26: total debt of $3.9 B against shareholder equity of $0.1 B — a debt-to-equity of 55.14. On the annual view, debt-to-equity went from 8.13 (FY21) to 14.85 (FY25). Read the returns on this page with that leverage in mind.
→ Who owns this, and are they adding or leaving? Next: the register.
Ownership There is no quarter-by-quarter holder register to read here, so we read the crowd through short interest — the slice of tradable shares currently sold short, positioned for a fall.
No ownership or positioning reading is held for Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V., so this section names the gap rather than filling it. At typical trading volumes those positions would take about 2.8 days to buy back. There is no quarter-by-quarter holder register to read for this filer, so the crowd is read through short interest instead.
We hold no ownership or positioning reading for this stock, so this section says that plainly.
→ One last check: does the safety math agree? Next: the balance-sheet safety line.
Safety line The Z-score estimates how far a company sits from balance-sheet distress — above roughly 3 is safe, below roughly 1.8 is the danger zone. It was built for manufacturers, so it is not applied to banks and lenders.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V.: the Z-score reads 0.41. A Z-score above roughly 3 reads as safe and below roughly 1.8 as the distress zone, so this sits inside the distress zone. It is a distance-to-distress estimate from the balance sheet, not a forecast of failure.
🚨 Why it matters: a Z-score of 0.41 is inside the distress zone — the balance sheet is a real risk, not a detail.
The safety line in one sentence: the Z-score reads 0.41.
| Company | P/E | Mkt cap | Revenue | EPS | ROCE | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. this page | 18.4× | $1B | No read | |||
| Delta Air Lines, Inc. | 14.4× | $58B | Turning around | |||
| United Airlines Holdings, Inc. | 11.3× | $40B | Topping out | |||
| Ryanair Holdings plc | 12.6× | $35B | Turning around | |||
| Southwest Airlines Co. | 28.4× | $23B | Mixed | |||
| LATAM Airlines Group S.A. | 9.1× | $15B | Improving | |||
| American Airlines Group Inc. | — | $10B | Deteriorating | |||
| Copa Holdings, S.A. | 8.2× | $6B | Consistent | |||
| Alaska Air Group, Inc. | — | $5B | Deteriorating | |||
| SkyWest, Inc. | 11.3× | $4B | Mixed | |||
| Allegiant Travel Company | — | $3B | No read | |||
| Grupo Aeroméxico, S.A.B. de C.V. | 11.0× | $2B | Turning around | |||
| JetBlue Airways Corporation | — | $2B | No read | |||
| Azul S.A. | 1.8× | $2B | — | No read | ||
| Frontier Group Holdings, Inc. | — | $1B | No read | |||
| Republic Airways Holdings Inc. | 10.3× | $1B | No read | |||
| flyExclusive, Inc. | — | $0B | No read |
Frequently asked questions
What is Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V.'s stock price today?
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. trades at $7.9, +45.6% over the past year. The company is valued at $1.0 B. The stock sits at 48% of its 52-week range of $6–$10, −0.5% versus its 200-day average. — as of 29 July 2026.
What were Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V.'s latest quarterly results?
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. reported revenue of $0.8 B and a net loss of $0.1 B for the Mar 26 quarter. Earnings per share were $−0.62. The operating margin was −2.6%, 1.1 pp lower than a year earlier. — as of 29 July 2026.
What is Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V.'s revenue?
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. reported revenue of $0.8 B in the Mar 26 quarter, +13.2% year on year. For the full FY25 fiscal year, revenue was $3.0 B (−3.2%). Over the last 4 years revenue compounded at 8.4% a year. — as of 29 July 2026.
What is Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V.'s profit?
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. earned $−0.1 B of net profit in the Mar 26 quarter. Full-year FY25 profit was $−0.1 B. The operating margin ran −2.6% in the latest quarter. — as of 29 July 2026.
What is Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V.'s market cap?
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V.'s market capitalisation is $1.0 B at a stock price of $7.9. Market cap is the share price multiplied by shares outstanding, so it is restated whenever the price moves. — as of 29 July 2026.
Does Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. pay a dividend?
No — Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. has declared no dividend per share in any of its last 12 reported quarters, so there is no payout history and no yield to quote. That is a reading of the filed statements, not an estimate. — as of 29 July 2026.
How is Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. performing?
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V.'s latest readings are below. Against the S&P 500 it has been ahead on a trailing-13-week view for 1 week. This describes what the data did, not a rating. — as of 29 July 2026.
Is Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. beating the market?
On recent form, yes — Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. has been ahead of the S&P 500 on a trailing-13-week view for 1 straight week, the same metric the week-by-week ribbon on this page draws. Separately, on the cumulative view: over the last 1.0 years the stock moved +61% against the S&P 500's +19% — ahead of the index over the full window. — as of 29 July 2026.
Will Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V.'s stock price go up?
This page publishes no price forecast for Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. What it measures instead: the stock price is $7.9. Direction is not something this site claims to know. — as of 29 July 2026.
Does Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. have too much debt?
It carries real leverage — Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V.'s debt-to-equity is 56.75. A year-by-year borrowings ladder is not in our numbers for this stock, so the latest reading is the cleanest hold. Read the returns on this page with that leverage in mind — as of 29 July 2026.
What is Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V.'s capex?
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. spent $1.0 B on capital expenditure over the last 3 fiscal years, a figure derived from the change in fixed assets plus depreciation. In FY25 alone that was $0.3 B. — as of 29 July 2026.
What is Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V.'s cash flow?
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. generated $0.8 B of operating cash flow in FY25 and $0.5 B of free cash flow after $0.3 B of capital spending. Reported profit that year was $−0.1 B, so operating cash ran ahead of profit. — as of 29 July 2026.
Is Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V.'s profit real cash?
Yes — over the last 3 fiscal years, 1,044% of Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V.'s reported profit arrived as operating cash. In FY25, operating cash was $0.8 B against reported profit of $−0.1 B. The cash then goes mostly into building capacity. Cash-flow resolution is annual — as of 29 July 2026.
How financially safe is Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V.?
On the balance sheet, the Z-score reads 0.41 — above roughly 3 is safe, below roughly 1.8 is the distress zone. That is inside the danger band — a real balance-sheet risk. — as of 29 July 2026.
Where is Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. in its business cycle?
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V.'s FY25 operating margin was 4.3%, against a 5-year band of 1.4%–18.2%: the low end of its own band, which is where recoveries start when they come. The latest quarter ran −2.6%. Profitability versus a company's own long band is the cleanest cycle clock this page holds — as of 29 July 2026.
What could break the Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. story?
The sharpest disagreement: the price moved +45.6% in a year while annual EPS moved −183.3% — the difference is re-rating, and re-rating has to be repaid with earnings. Mechanically, two Friday closes in a row below the 200-day average would end the price trend — that is the exit rule this page tracks — as of 29 July 2026.
Is Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V. a stock worth studying right now?
This is not investment advice. The machine read: Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.B. de C.V.'s three tracks disagree. Price, valuation and the earnings engine each tell a different story — the next quarter or two settles it. The sharpest open question: whether earnings grow into a price that has already moved. Every number on this page is drawn deterministically from the raw series, with no forecasts and no price opinions — as of 29 July 2026.