ULCC vs. ALGT, JBLU, VLRS, SNCY, HA, SAVE, AZUL, SKYW, CPA, and NMM
Should you be buying Frontier Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Frontier Group include Allegiant Travel (ALGT), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (VLRS), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), Hawaiian (HA), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Azul (AZUL), SkyWest (SKYW), Copa (CPA), and Navios Maritime Partners (NMM). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Allegiant Travel (NASDAQ:ALGT) and Frontier Group (NASDAQ:ULCC) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings and risk.
Allegiant Travel has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Frontier Group. Frontier Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Allegiant Travel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
85.8% of Allegiant Travel shares are held by institutional investors. 17.5% of Allegiant Travel shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 81.5% of Frontier Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Allegiant Travel presently has a consensus price target of $89.13, indicating a potential upside of 59.27%. Frontier Group has a consensus price target of $7.28, indicating a potential upside of 17.64%. Given Frontier Group's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Allegiant Travel is more favorable than Frontier Group.
In the previous week, Allegiant Travel had 20 more articles in the media than Frontier Group. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Allegiant Travel and 6 mentions for Frontier Group. Allegiant Travel's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Frontier Group's score of 0.39 indicating that Frontier Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Allegiant Travel has a beta of 1.63, suggesting that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Frontier Group has a beta of 2.63, suggesting that its share price is 163% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Allegiant Travel received 499 more outperform votes than Frontier Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.97% of users gave Allegiant Travel an outperform vote while only 41.67% of users gave Frontier Group an outperform vote.
Allegiant Travel has a net margin of 2.26% compared to Allegiant Travel's net margin of -0.67%. Allegiant Travel's return on equity of 3.62% beat Frontier Group's return on equity.
Summary
Allegiant Travel beats Frontier Group on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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