Ryanair (RYAAY) Competitors

$139.91
-0.09 (-0.06%)
(As of 04/26/2024 ET)

RYAAY vs. DAL, UAL, LUV, AAL, WAB, ODFL, JBHT, EXPD, SAIA, and XPO

Should you be buying Ryanair stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ryanair include Delta Air Lines (DAL), United Airlines (UAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), American Airlines Group (AAL), Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies (WAB), Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), J.B. Hunt Transport Services (JBHT), Expeditors International of Washington (EXPD), Saia (SAIA), and XPO (XPO). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.

Ryanair vs.

Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) and Ryanair (NASDAQ:RYAAY) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.

Delta Air Lines has higher revenue and earnings than Ryanair. Delta Air Lines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ryanair, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Delta Air Lines$58.05B0.55$4.61B$7.786.42
Ryanair$11.23B2.84$1.37B$9.7114.41

Delta Air Lines has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ryanair has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Delta Air Lines currently has a consensus target price of $58.29, indicating a potential upside of 16.76%. Ryanair has a consensus target price of $158.50, indicating a potential upside of 13.29%. Given Ryanair's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Delta Air Lines is more favorable than Ryanair.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Delta Air Lines
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
10 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.09
Ryanair
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

69.9% of Delta Air Lines shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.7% of Ryanair shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Delta Air Lines 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.

Delta Air Lines received 637 more outperform votes than Ryanair when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.37% of users gave Delta Air Lines an outperform vote while only 69.86% of users gave Ryanair an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Delta Air LinesOutperform Votes
1228
76.37%
Underperform Votes
380
23.63%
RyanairOutperform Votes
591
69.86%
Underperform Votes
255
30.14%

Ryanair has a net margin of 15.64% compared to Ryanair's net margin of 8.48%. Ryanair's return on equity of 41.89% beat Delta Air Lines' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Delta Air Lines8.48% 41.89% 5.61%
Ryanair 15.64%29.39%12.74%

In the previous week, Delta Air Lines had 34 more articles in the media than Ryanair. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Delta Air Lines and 6 mentions for Ryanair. Delta Air Lines' average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Ryanair's score of 0.49 indicating that Ryanair is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Delta Air Lines
17 Very Positive mention(s)
5 Positive mention(s)
10 Neutral mention(s)
3 Negative mention(s)
2 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Ryanair
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Delta Air Lines pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Ryanair pays an annual dividend of $0.93 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Delta Air Lines pays out 5.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ryanair pays out 9.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Delta Air Lines is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

Delta Air Lines beats Ryanair on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding RYAAY and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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RYAAY vs. The Competition

MetricRyanairAir transportation, scheduled IndustryTransportation SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$31.90B$19.50B$10.01B$7.64B
Dividend Yield0.66%3.27%3.80%3.94%
P/E Ratio14.418.0614.5215.21
Price / Sales2.841.6424.9985.77
Price / Cash13.0133.1916.5835.33
Price / Book5.421.961.984.26
Net Income$1.37B$658.46M$619.05M$214.06M
7 Day Performance0.74%-0.74%1.55%1.88%
1 Month Performance-3.90%-5.90%-2.82%-5.70%
1 Year Performance46.36%-1.18%9.57%6.72%

Ryanair Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DAL
Delta Air Lines
4.9116 of 5 stars
$49.24
+0.4%
$58.29
+18.4%
+49.8%$31.78B$58.05B6.33100,000Dividend Announcement
Insider Selling
UAL
United Airlines
4.8209 of 5 stars
$54.03
+0.2%
$66.53
+23.1%
+23.4%$17.77B$53.72B6.6810,300Analyst Upgrade
Short Interest ↑
LUV
Southwest Airlines
4.2765 of 5 stars
$29.46
-0.9%
$31.82
+8.0%
-9.5%$17.62B$26.09B39.2874,806Earnings Report
Analyst Report
Short Interest ↑
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
AAL
American Airlines Group
4.2508 of 5 stars
$14.23
-2.1%
$17.53
+23.2%
+7.8%$9.32B$52.79B12.94132,100Earnings Report
Short Interest ↑
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
WAB
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies
4.1795 of 5 stars
$148.50
+1.9%
$146.91
-1.1%
+68.2%$26.26B$9.68B32.8529,000Earnings Report
Analyst Report
News Coverage
ODFL
Old Dominion Freight Line
4.6571 of 5 stars
$219.28
+3.6%
$214.19
-2.3%
+16.5%$46.06B$5.87B38.9522,902Earnings Report
Analyst Report
News Coverage
Gap Down
JBHT
J.B. Hunt Transport Services
4.9374 of 5 stars
$167.55
+0.1%
$194.24
+15.9%
-4.7%$17.31B$12.83B26.608,756Dividend Announcement
EXPD
Expeditors International of Washington
2.5964 of 5 stars
$113.17
-0.8%
$108.63
-4.0%
+1.5%$16.06B$9.30B22.6318,000Positive News
SAIA
Saia
2.6634 of 5 stars
$546.28
+4.5%
$500.84
-8.3%
+65.0%$14.53B$2.88B41.1714,000Earnings Report
News Coverage
Gap Down
XPO
XPO
4.1261 of 5 stars
$120.84
+4.1%
$111.65
-7.6%
+165.2%$14.05B$7.74B75.0638,000Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Gap Down

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This page (NASDAQ:RYAAY) was last updated on 4/28/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff

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