AAL vs. ALK, CPA, SKYW, LUV, AZUL, JBLU, UAL, ALGT, HA, and SAVE
Should you be buying American Airlines Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Airlines Group include Alaska Air Group (ALK), Copa (CPA), SkyWest (SKYW), Southwest Airlines (LUV), Azul (AZUL), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), United Airlines (UAL), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Hawaiian (HA), and Spirit Airlines (SAVE). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) and American Airlines Group (NASDAQ:AAL) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability and risk.
81.9% of Alaska Air Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.4% of American Airlines Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Alaska Air Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of American Airlines Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Alaska Air Group presently has a consensus price target of $56.60, indicating a potential upside of 30.76%. American Airlines Group has a consensus price target of $17.62, indicating a potential upside of 19.61%. Given American Airlines Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Alaska Air Group is more favorable than American Airlines Group.
Alaska Air Group has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Airlines Group has a beta of 1.57, meaning that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Alaska Air Group had 3 more articles in the media than American Airlines Group. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Alaska Air Group and 23 mentions for American Airlines Group. American Airlines Group's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Alaska Air Group's score of 0.57 indicating that Alaska Air Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
American Airlines Group received 75 more outperform votes than Alaska Air Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.61% of users gave Alaska Air Group an outperform vote while only 66.20% of users gave American Airlines Group an outperform vote.
American Airlines Group has higher revenue and earnings than Alaska Air Group. Alaska Air Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Airlines Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alaska Air Group has a net margin of 2.34% compared to Alaska Air Group's net margin of 0.94%. American Airlines Group's return on equity of 13.54% beat Alaska Air Group's return on equity.
Summary
Alaska Air Group beats American Airlines Group on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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