HA vs. ALGT, MESA, JBLU, SKYW, VLRS, SNCY, SAVE, ULCC, AZUL, and EGLE
Should you be buying Hawaiian stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hawaiian include Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Mesa Air Group (MESA), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), SkyWest (SKYW), Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (VLRS), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Frontier Group (ULCC), Azul (AZUL), and Eagle Bulk Shipping (EGLE). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Hawaiian (NASDAQ:HA) and Allegiant Travel (NASDAQ:ALGT) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
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.
In the previous week, Hawaiian had 23 more articles in the media than Allegiant Travel. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Hawaiian and 5 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 news media.
70.2% of Hawaiian shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.8% of Allegiant Travel shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of Hawaiian shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.5% of Allegiant Travel shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Hawaiian currently has a consensus price target of $11.33, suggesting a potential downside of 7.63%. Allegiant Travel has a consensus price target of $89.75, suggesting a potential upside of 57.35%. Given Allegiant Travel's higher possible upside, 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.
Hawaiian has a beta of 2.39, indicating that its share price is 139% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Allegiant Travel has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Allegiant Travel has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
Summary
Allegiant Travel beats Hawaiian on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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