AAL vs. HA, RYAAY, UAL, LUV, ALK, CPA, SKYW, AZUL, JBLU, and ULCC
Should you be buying American Airlines Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Airlines Group include Hawaiian (HA), Ryanair (RYAAY), United Airlines (UAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), Alaska Air Group (ALK), Copa (CPA), SkyWest (SKYW), Azul (AZUL), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), and Frontier Group (ULCC). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
American Airlines Group (NASDAQ:AAL) and Hawaiian (NASDAQ:HA) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
American Airlines Group currently has a consensus price target of $16.53, suggesting a potential upside of 44.45%. Hawaiian has a consensus price target of $11.33, suggesting a potential downside of 15.42%. Given American Airlines Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe American Airlines Group is more favorable than Hawaiian.
52.4% of American Airlines Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.2% of Hawaiian shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of American Airlines Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Hawaiian shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
American Airlines Group received 456 more outperform votes than Hawaiian when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.01% of users gave American Airlines Group an outperform vote while only 52.36% of users gave Hawaiian an outperform vote.
In the previous week, American Airlines Group had 29 more articles in the media than Hawaiian. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for American Airlines Group and 2 mentions for Hawaiian. Hawaiian's average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat American Airlines Group's score of -0.07 indicating that Hawaiian is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
American Airlines Group has a net margin of 0.94% compared to Hawaiian's net margin of -10.90%. American Airlines Group's return on equity of -31.65% beat Hawaiian's return on equity.
American Airlines Group has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hawaiian has a beta of 2.38, meaning that its share price is 138% more volatile than the S&P 500.
American Airlines Group has higher revenue and earnings than Hawaiian. Hawaiian 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.
Summary
American Airlines Group beats Hawaiian on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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