[ad_1] The post These 5 Stocks Are Bouncing Back from Their Pandemic Lows appeared first on Millennial Money. There are plenty of stocks that completely took a bath in 2020, thanks to the pandemic. Nearly every sector of the stock market took a hit as investors tried to wrap their heads around a historic, global pandemic that had the potential to send world economies into a tailspin. Fortunately, some of the worst economic predictions didn’t come true, but it still left many companies—and their share prices—reeling last year. Thankfully, some of these companies are getting back on track in 2021 and have seen their share prices bounce back from their pandemic lows. Not all of the companies listed below are completely out of the woods just yet, but their recent progress is certainly notable, as is their ability to weather one of the worst-case scenarios for many of their industries. 5 Stocks Bouncing Back from Their Pandemic Lows These 5 stocks are showing signs of strong recovery since their pandemic lows. Delta Air Lines Booking Holdings AutoZone Bank of America Walt Disney Delta Air Lines Inc. (NYSE: DAL) Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) Price: $45.38 (as of close Oct 1, 2021) Market Cap: $28.939B document.addEventListener(“DOMContentLoaded”, function(event) { Highcharts.stockChart(“stockChart-a6746fc0942af40fb7ade016c7ef5555”,{rangeSelector:{selected:1},title:{text:”Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL)Closing Stock Price”},subtitle: {text: “30-Day Historical Data”},navigator: { enabled: false },scrollbar: { enabled: false },credits: { enabled: false },xAxis: { type: “datetime”, labels: { formatter: function() { return Highcharts.dateFormat(“%m %d, %Y”, this.value); }}},colors: [“#118b4e”],rangeSelector : { enabled: false },series:[{name:”NYSE:DAL”,data:[[1630641600000,40.25],[1630987200000,40.35],[1631073600000,39.65],[1631160000000,41.09],[1631246400000,39.36],[1631505600000,40.18],[1631592000000,39.44],[1631678400000,39.64],[1631764800000,40.22],[1631851200000,40.11],[1632110400000,40.78],[1632196800000,40.36],[1632283200000,41.59],[1632369600000,42.59],[1632456000000,43.53],[1632715200000,43.78],[1632801600000,43.44],[1632888000000,43.36],[1632974400000,42.61],[1633060800000,45.38],],tooltip:{valueDecimals:2,xDateFormat: “%A, %B %e, %Y”}}]}); }); If one sector was pummeled more than any other… it was the airlines. Lockdowns kept people from leaving their hometowns, let alone flying to far-off destinations. And social distancing ensured that being confined to a small space with strangers 30,000 feet above the ground was the last thing people wanted to do. Because of these unforeseen circumstances, Delta (and all other airlines) essentially grounded their entire fleet and put them in storage for months. The result? Delta’s business entirely dried up. The company lost $11 billion in the first two quarters of the year and warned at the time that a recovery could take two years or more. The company’s stock tumbled because of its poor financial performance and by mid-2020, Delta’s share price was down an astonishing 52%. But the company has since begun rebounding as vaccines have been rolled out across the world and people are traveling again. In the company’s June quarter, the company had positive free cash flow and was profitable in the month of June on a pre-tax basis. Delta’s CEO Ed Bastian told investors that domestic leisure travel had fully recovered to 2019 levels and there are “encouraging signs of improvement in business and international travel.” In fact, the company said it ordered more jets to expand its capacity. So has all of that translated to better performance from Delta’s share price? You bet it has. The airline’s stock is up 46% over the past 12 months. Booking Holdings (Nasdaq: BKNG) Booking Holdings (NASDAQ:BKNG) Price: $2455.87 (as of close Oct 1, 2021) Market Cap: $100.838B document.addEventListener(“DOMContentLoaded”, function(event) { Highcharts.stockChart(“stockChart-861d8b4e21a8dabf1464cb5b5069c30f”,{rangeSelector:{selected:1},title:{text:”Booking Holdings (NASDAQ:BKNG)Closing Stock Price”},subtitle: {text: “30-Day Historical Data”},navigator: { enabled: false },scrollbar: { enabled: false },credits: { enabled: false },xAxis: { type: “datetime”, labels: { formatter: function() { return Highcharts.dateFormat(“%m %d, %Y”, this.value); }}},colors: [“#118b4e”],rangeSelector : { enabled: false },series:[{name:”NASDAQ:BKNG”,data:[[1630641600000,2304.45],[1630987200000,2338.57],[1631073600000,2315.95],[1631160000000,2318.67],[1631246400000,2304.8],[1631505600000,2322.12],[1631592000000,2328.66],[1631678400000,2375.97],[1631764800000,2345],[1631851200000,2325.37],[1632110400000,2340.74],[1632196800000,2325.62],[1632283200000,2406.11],[1632369600000,2475.51],[1632456000000,2491.35],[1632715200000,2476.52],[1632801600000,2432.75],[1632888000000,2377.82],[1632974400000,2373.87],[1633060800000,2455.87],],tooltip:{valueDecimals:2,xDateFormat: “%A, %B %e, %Y”}}]}); }); Booking is a mammoth company that comprises some of the most popular travel-focused companies across the globe, including Priceline.com, KAYAK, OpenTable, Rentalcars.com, and its namesake Booking.com. Needless to say, the pandemic was not good for any of the company’s businesses. The company’s CEO, Glenn Fogel, said in early 2020 that the COVID-19 pandemic “is without a doubt, the biggest disruption in modern global travel, the world has ever seen.” Of course, he was right. In 2020, Booking’s net income tumbled 99% and hotel room night bookings fell by 58%. Booking’s share price consequently took a major hit, sliding by 23% in the first six months of 2020. But there are lots of signs that Booking is in the midst of a rebound, with more good news on the way. Over the summer of 2021, the company had more hotel night bookings than it did over the same period in 2019. And while Booking is still feeling the effects of the pandemic, Fogel said recently that the company had “another quarter of meaningful sequential improvement” and that it expects its third-quarter 2021 revenue as a percentage of gross bookings to be in line with the third quarter of 2019. Alright, so people are booking a lot more rooms than they did in 2020, and Booking’s business is on the mend. But how exactly has that translated to the company’s stock price? Over the past 12 months, Booking’s stock has gained more than 42%, easily outperforming the S&P 500’s 28% climb. AutoZone (NYSE: AZO) AutoZone (NYSE:AZO) Price: $1672.28 (as of close Oct 1, 2021) Market Cap: $35.349B document.addEventListener(“DOMContentLoaded”, function(event) { Highcharts.stockChart(“stockChart-34f9a7cb65f2b1aacb6c7cd2937ba78f”,{rangeSelector:{selected:1},title:{text:”AutoZone (NYSE:AZO)Closing Stock Price”},subtitle: {text: “30-Day Historical Data”},navigator: { enabled: false },scrollbar: { enabled: false },credits: { enabled: false },xAxis: { type: “datetime”, labels: { formatter: function() { return Highcharts.dateFormat(“%m %d, %Y”, this.value); }}},colors: [“#118b4e”],rangeSelector : { enabled: false },series:[{name:”NYSE:AZO”,data:[[1630641600000,1537.25],[1630987200000,1526.22],[1631073600000,1556.35],[1631160000000,1551.89],[1631246400000,1550.56],[1631505600000,1553.1],[1631592000000,1563.77],[1631678400000,1596.72],[1631764800000,1607.42],[1631851200000,1592.88],[1632110400000,1585.16],[1632196800000,1643.07],[1632283200000,1683.76],[1632369600000,1687.79],[1632456000000,1694.83],[1632715200000,1691.33],[1632801600000,1688.57],[1632888000000,1737],[1632974400000,1697.99],[1633060800000,1672.28],],tooltip:{valueDecimals:2,xDateFormat: “%A, %B %e, %Y”}}]}); }); AutoZone is a bit of an outlier on this list because the company actually grew during the pandemic. A mixture of lockdowns and social distancing, paired with an influx of cash from stimulus checks, spurred some people to buy parts for their cars. That led to AutoZone’s sales increasing 6.5% in fiscal 2020 and net income popping 7%. So, why even put AutoZone on this list? Because even while the company grew during the pandemic… its share price fizzled. AutoZone’s stock was down about 5% in the first six months of 2020, which was slightly worse than the S&P 500’s performance at the time. But even though AutoZone’s financials were technically good in 2020, it has an even more significant post-pandemic opportunity. In