ALK vs. UAL, LUV, CPA, SKYW, JBLU, ALGT, HA, DAL, AAL, and AZUL
Should you be buying Alaska Air Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alaska Air Group include United Airlines (UAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), Copa (CPA), SkyWest (SKYW), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Hawaiian (HA), Delta Air Lines (DAL), American Airlines Group (AAL), and Azul (AZUL). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
United Airlines (NASDAQ:UAL) and Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) are both transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, valuation, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability and media sentiment.
69.7% of United Airlines shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Alaska Air Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of United Airlines shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Alaska Air Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
United Airlines has higher revenue and earnings than Alaska Air Group. United Airlines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alaska Air Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
United Airlines presently has a consensus target price of $70.89, indicating a potential upside of 33.76%. Alaska Air Group has a consensus target price of $56.60, indicating a potential upside of 38.94%. Given United Airlines' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Alaska Air Group is more favorable than United Airlines.
In the previous week, United Airlines had 9 more articles in the media than Alaska Air Group. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for United Airlines and 7 mentions for Alaska Air Group. Alaska Air Group's average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat United Airlines' score of 0.70 indicating that United Airlines is being referred to more favorably in the media.
United Airlines received 152 more outperform votes than Alaska Air Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.61% of users gave Alaska Air Group an outperform vote while only 66.12% of users gave United Airlines an outperform vote.
United Airlines has a net margin of 4.90% compared to United Airlines' net margin of 2.34%. Alaska Air Group's return on equity of 39.85% beat United Airlines' return on equity.
United Airlines has a beta of 1.47, indicating that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alaska Air Group has a beta of 1.61, indicating that its stock price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
United Airlines beats Alaska Air Group on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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