RYAAY vs. DAL, UAL, LUV, AAL, WAB, ODFL, EXPD, JBHT, ZTO, and UHAL
Should you be buying Ryanair stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ryanair include Delta Air Lines (DAL), United Airlines (UAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), American Airlines Group (AAL), Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies (WAB), Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), Expeditors International of Washington (EXPD), J.B. Hunt Transport Services (JBHT), ZTO Express (Cayman) (ZTO), and U-Haul (UHAL). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) and Ryanair (NASDAQ:RYAAY) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Delta Air Lines has higher revenue and earnings than Ryanair. Delta Air Lines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ryanair, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
69.9% of Delta Air Lines shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.7% of Ryanair shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Delta Air Lines shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Delta Air Lines pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Ryanair pays an annual dividend of $0.93 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Delta Air Lines pays out 5.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ryanair pays out 10.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Delta Air Lines is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Delta Air Lines presently has a consensus price target of $59.25, suggesting a potential upside of 15.80%. Ryanair has a consensus price target of $158.50, suggesting a potential upside of 29.05%. Given Delta Air Lines' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ryanair is more favorable than Delta Air Lines.
In the previous week, Delta Air Lines had 10 more articles in the media than Ryanair. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Delta Air Lines and 14 mentions for Ryanair. Ryanair's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Delta Air Lines' score of 0.55 indicating that Delta Air Lines is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ryanair has a net margin of 14.30% compared to Ryanair's net margin of 8.48%. Ryanair's return on equity of 41.89% beat Delta Air Lines' return on equity.
Delta Air Lines received 638 more outperform votes than Ryanair when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.38% of users gave Delta Air Lines an outperform vote while only 69.78% of users gave Ryanair an outperform vote.
Delta Air Lines has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ryanair has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Delta Air Lines beats Ryanair on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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