VLRS vs. AZUL, JBLU, ULCC, ALGT, HA, SNCY, SAVE, MESA, DAL, and RYAAY
Should you be buying Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación include Azul (AZUL), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Frontier Group (ULCC), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Hawaiian (HA), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Mesa Air Group (MESA), Delta Air Lines (DAL), and Ryanair (RYAAY). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Azul (NYSE:AZUL) and Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (NYSE:VLRS) are both transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking, risk, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Azul received 5 more outperform votes than Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.72% of users gave Azul an outperform vote while only 64.61% of users gave Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación an outperform vote.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación has a net margin of 3.40% compared to Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación's net margin of -6.90%. Azul's return on equity of 54.46% beat Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación's return on equity.
Azul currently has a consensus target price of $11.12, suggesting a potential upside of 96.76%. Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación has a consensus target price of $13.01, suggesting a potential upside of 62.88%. Given Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Azul is more favorable than Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación.
In the previous week, Azul had 14 more articles in the media than Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Azul and 9 mentions for Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación. Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Azul's score of 0.25 indicating that Azul is being referred to more favorably in the media.
0.8% of Azul shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.3% of Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Azul shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Azul. Azul is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Azul has a beta of 1.94, suggesting that its stock price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación has a beta of 2.49, suggesting that its stock price is 149% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación beats Azul on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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