SAVE vs. ULCC, ALGT, HA, VLRS, SNCY, MESA, DAL, RYAAY, UAL, and LUV
Should you be buying Spirit Airlines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Spirit Airlines include Frontier Group (ULCC), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Hawaiian (HA), Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (VLRS), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), Mesa Air Group (MESA), Delta Air Lines (DAL), Ryanair (RYAAY), United Airlines (UAL), and Southwest Airlines (LUV). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Spirit Airlines (NYSE:SAVE) and Frontier Group (NASDAQ:ULCC) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, valuation and risk.
Frontier Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Spirit Airlines. Frontier Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spirit Airlines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Frontier Group has a net margin of -0.67% compared to Spirit Airlines' net margin of -9.21%. Frontier Group's return on equity of 3.62% beat Spirit Airlines' return on equity.
58.7% of Spirit Airlines shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Spirit Airlines shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 81.5% of Frontier Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Spirit Airlines has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Frontier Group has a beta of 2.55, suggesting that its stock price is 155% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Spirit Airlines had 6 more articles in the media than Frontier Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Spirit Airlines and 1 mentions for Frontier Group. Spirit Airlines' average media sentiment score of 0.18 beat Frontier Group's score of -0.24 indicating that Spirit Airlines is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Frontier Group received 13 more outperform votes than Spirit Airlines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 41.24% of users gave Frontier Group an outperform vote while only 31.76% of users gave Spirit Airlines an outperform vote.
Spirit Airlines presently has a consensus price target of $3.57, indicating a potential downside of 1.34%. Frontier Group has a consensus price target of $7.28, indicating a potential upside of 34.10%. Given Frontier Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Frontier Group is more favorable than Spirit Airlines.
Summary
Frontier Group beats Spirit Airlines on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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