ALGT vs. HA, JBLU, MESA, SKYW, CPA, SNCY, ULCC, VLRS, SAVE, and AZUL
Should you be buying Allegiant Travel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Allegiant Travel include Hawaiian (HA), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Mesa Air Group (MESA), SkyWest (SKYW), Copa (CPA), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), Frontier Group (ULCC), Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (VLRS), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), and Azul (AZUL). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Allegiant Travel (NASDAQ:ALGT) and Hawaiian (NASDAQ:HA) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership and earnings.
Allegiant Travel has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Hawaiian. Hawaiian is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Allegiant Travel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Allegiant Travel has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hawaiian has a beta of 2.39, indicating that its share price is 139% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Hawaiian had 22 more articles in the media than Allegiant Travel. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Hawaiian and 6 mentions for Allegiant Travel. Allegiant Travel's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Hawaiian's score of -0.07 indicating that Allegiant Travel is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Allegiant Travel presently has a consensus target price of $89.75, indicating a potential upside of 57.35%. Hawaiian has a consensus target price of $11.33, indicating a potential downside of 7.63%. Given Allegiant Travel's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Allegiant Travel is more favorable than Hawaiian.
Allegiant Travel has a net margin of 4.54% compared to Hawaiian's net margin of -10.90%. Allegiant Travel's return on equity of 3.80% beat Hawaiian's return on equity.
Allegiant Travel received 96 more outperform votes than Hawaiian when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.04% of users gave Allegiant Travel an outperform vote while only 52.36% of users gave Hawaiian an outperform vote.
85.8% of Allegiant Travel shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.2% of Hawaiian shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.5% of Allegiant Travel shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Hawaiian shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Allegiant Travel beats Hawaiian on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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