CPA vs. SKYW, ALK, JBLU, AZUL, ULCC, AAL, CAR, MATX, HRI, and STNG
Should you be buying Copa stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Copa include SkyWest (SKYW), Alaska Air Group (ALK), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Azul (AZUL), Frontier Group (ULCC), American Airlines Group (AAL), Avis Budget Group (CAR), Matson (MATX), Herc (HRI), and Scorpio Tankers (STNG). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Copa (NYSE:CPA) and SkyWest (NASDAQ:SKYW) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Copa has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SkyWest has a beta of 1.89, meaning that its stock price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Copa has a net margin of 16.42% compared to SkyWest's net margin of 3.83%. Copa's return on equity of 36.59% beat SkyWest's return on equity.
In the previous week, SkyWest had 11 more articles in the media than Copa. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for SkyWest and 8 mentions for Copa. SkyWest's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Copa's score of 0.65 indicating that SkyWest is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
70.1% of Copa shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.3% of SkyWest shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of SkyWest shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Copa received 193 more outperform votes than SkyWest when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.18% of users gave SkyWest an outperform vote while only 65.15% of users gave Copa an outperform vote.
Copa has higher revenue and earnings than SkyWest. Copa is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SkyWest, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Copa currently has a consensus price target of $154.43, indicating a potential upside of 53.43%. SkyWest has a consensus price target of $62.25, indicating a potential downside of 17.06%. Given Copa's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Copa is more favorable than SkyWest.
Summary
Copa beats SkyWest on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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