ULCC vs. CPA, SKYW, AZUL, JBLU, ALGT, HA, VLRS, SNCY, SAVE, and MESA
Should you be buying Frontier Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Frontier Group include Copa (CPA), SkyWest (SKYW), Azul (AZUL), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Hawaiian (HA), Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (VLRS), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), and Mesa Air Group (MESA). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Copa (NYSE:CPA) and Frontier Group (NASDAQ:ULCC) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Copa has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Frontier Group has a beta of 2.55, indicating that its share price is 155% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Copa had 10 more articles in the media than Frontier Group. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Copa and 0 mentions for Frontier Group. Frontier Group's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Copa's score of -0.24 indicating that Copa is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Copa presently has a consensus target price of $154.43, indicating a potential upside of 58.14%. Frontier Group has a consensus target price of $7.28, indicating a potential upside of 34.60%. Given Frontier Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Copa is more favorable than Frontier Group.
70.1% of Copa shares are held by institutional investors. 81.5% of Frontier Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Copa received 603 more outperform votes than Frontier Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.15% of users gave Copa an outperform vote while only 41.24% of users gave Frontier Group an outperform vote.
Copa has a net margin of 16.42% compared to Copa's net margin of -0.67%. Frontier Group's return on equity of 36.59% beat Copa's return on equity.
Copa has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Frontier Group. Frontier Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Copa, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Copa beats Frontier Group on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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