GOL is becoming cheaper as this low cost airline performs greatly.
I lost 15% on it, but I have no regret. June flight data for GOL were amazing and the company is continuing to grow fast, with lovely earnings, without debts and even with dividends, which are a nice gift that very few growth stocks offer:
Those are the flight data for GOL in June 2006 compared to June 2005:
| month | June 2006 | June 2005 | (%) |
| RPK (mm) (1) | 1,235.1 | 770.5 | 60.3% |
| Load Factor (2) | 77.3% | 71.1% | +6.2 %. |
(1) Revenue passenger kilometers represents the numbers of kilometers flown by revenue passengers.
(2) Load factor represents the percentage of aircraft seating capacity that is actually utilized.
They have 60% more kilometres flown by paying passengers. This is what I call growth for an airline!
What is also very nice is that they have loaded each airplane with 6% more passenger, leaving fewer seats empty.
Even with those bright results, GOL price went down 15% since I bought it, probably because of oil prices and higher rates. But the company is so healthy that oil prices and high rates will hurt its competitors much more than GOL, giving GOL more opportunities to gain market share.
GOL has plenty of cash and no debt, so high rates will hardly bother it. Not the same can be said for its debt burden competitors like Varig, which shall pay more and more interests.
Oil price is not nice for any airline, but low-cost GOL is doing a great job in loading its airlines. Paying high oil prices is a drama for airlines which have to pay higher gas bills to fly half empty airplanes.
Let’s give a look at some nice figures for my beloved GOL:
Qtrly Revenue Growth (yoy):46.50%
Qtrly Earnings Growth (yoy):42.90%
Total Cash: 411.79M
Forward Annual Dividend Yield: 1.40%
Payout Ratio: 7%
The last two ratios tell us that this healthy airline gives out 1.40% dividend yields, using only 7% of its earnings. What happens with the other 93% of the earnings? We can guess that it goes to buy new airplanes, to invest in marketing, to open new routes and into the banks to increase the cash amount this company owns. Do you like that fellow proletarian investors? Well I sure do love it!
BUY, SELL, KEEP 
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