EZJ vs. WIZZ, IAG, IMI, DPLM, RS1, WEIR, ROR, IDS, BAB, and SMIN
Should you be buying easyJet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of easyJet include Wizz Air (WIZZ), International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG), IMI (IMI), Diploma (DPLM), RS Group (RS1), The Weir Group (WEIR), Rotork (ROR), International Distributions Services (IDS), Babcock International Group (BAB), and Smiths Group (SMIN). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Wizz Air (LON:WIZZ) and easyJet (LON:EZJ) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
easyJet has a net margin of 3.97% compared to easyJet's net margin of 2.15%. Wizz Air's return on equity of 12.18% beat easyJet's return on equity.
45.9% of Wizz Air shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.0% of easyJet shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.7% of Wizz Air shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.6% of easyJet shares are owned 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.
Wizz Air currently has a consensus target price of GBX 2,525, indicating a potential upside of 15.05%. easyJet has a consensus target price of GBX 663.75, indicating a potential upside of 22.92%. Given Wizz Air's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe easyJet is more favorable than Wizz Air.
In the previous week, Wizz Air had 5 more articles in the media than easyJet. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Wizz Air and 2 mentions for easyJet. Wizz Air's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat easyJet's score of 0.43 indicating that easyJet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
easyJet has higher revenue and earnings than Wizz Air. Wizz Air is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than easyJet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Wizz Air has a beta of 2.35, meaning that its stock price is 135% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, easyJet has a beta of 2.58, meaning that its stock price is 158% more volatile than the S&P 500.
easyJet received 1025 more outperform votes than Wizz Air when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 76.46% of users gave Wizz Air an outperform vote while only 67.28% of users gave easyJet an outperform vote.
Summary
easyJet beats Wizz Air on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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