SKYW vs. JBLU, CPA, ALGT, HA, ALK, AZUL, ULCC, SAVE, MESA, and AAL
Should you be buying SkyWest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SkyWest include JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Copa (CPA), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Hawaiian (HA), Alaska Air Group (ALK), Azul (AZUL), Frontier Group (ULCC), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Mesa Air Group (MESA), and American Airlines Group (AAL). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ:JBLU) and SkyWest (NASDAQ:SKYW) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
JetBlue Airways currently has a consensus target price of $5.68, indicating a potential downside of 6.04%. SkyWest has a consensus target price of $62.25, indicating a potential downside of 18.38%. Given SkyWest's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe JetBlue Airways is more favorable than SkyWest.
83.7% of JetBlue Airways shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.3% of SkyWest shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of JetBlue Airways shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of SkyWest shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
SkyWest has lower revenue, but higher earnings than JetBlue Airways. JetBlue Airways is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SkyWest, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
JetBlue Airways has a beta of 1.89, suggesting that its stock price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SkyWest has a beta of 1.89, suggesting that its stock price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, SkyWest had 4 more articles in the media than JetBlue Airways. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for SkyWest and 7 mentions for JetBlue Airways. JetBlue Airways' average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat SkyWest's score of 0.31 indicating that SkyWest is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
JetBlue Airways received 276 more outperform votes than SkyWest when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.18% of users gave SkyWest an outperform vote while only 61.68% of users gave JetBlue Airways an outperform vote.
SkyWest has a net margin of 3.83% compared to SkyWest's net margin of -8.79%. JetBlue Airways' return on equity of 5.45% beat SkyWest's return on equity.
Summary
SkyWest beats JetBlue Airways on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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