AL vs. FRO, KEX, ALK, R, GXO, GATX, LSTR, HRI, CAR, and SNDR
Should you be buying Air Lease stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Air Lease include Frontline (FRO), Kirby (KEX), Alaska Air Group (ALK), Ryder System (R), GXO Logistics (GXO), GATX (GATX), Landstar System (LSTR), Herc (HRI), Avis Budget Group (CAR), and Schneider National (SNDR). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Air Lease (NYSE:AL) and Frontline (NYSE:FRO) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, risk, media sentiment and profitability.
Frontline has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Air Lease. Frontline is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Air Lease, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Air Lease has a beta of 1.65, indicating that its share price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Frontline has a beta of 0.06, indicating that its share price is 94% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Air Lease received 104 more outperform votes than Frontline when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.19% of users gave Air Lease an outperform vote while only 58.27% of users gave Frontline an outperform vote.
Air Lease currently has a consensus target price of $53.25, indicating a potential upside of 3.08%. Frontline has a consensus target price of $26.10, indicating a potential upside of 9.66%. Given Frontline's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Frontline is more favorable than Air Lease.
In the previous week, Air Lease had 5 more articles in the media than Frontline. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Air Lease and 2 mentions for Frontline. Frontline's average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Air Lease's score of 0.83 indicating that Frontline is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Air Lease pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Frontline pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. Air Lease pays out 16.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Frontline pays out 50.2% 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.
94.6% of Air Lease shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.7% of Frontline shares are held by institutional investors. 6.6% of Air Lease shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 48.1% of Frontline shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Frontline has a net margin of 35.95% compared to Air Lease's net margin of 22.89%. Frontline's return on equity of 26.00% beat Air Lease's return on equity.
Summary
Air Lease beats Frontline on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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