ALK vs. CPA, SKYW, JBLU, LUV, UAL, AZUL, AAL, ULCC, AL, and R
Should you be buying Alaska Air Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alaska Air Group include Copa (CPA), SkyWest (SKYW), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Southwest Airlines (LUV), United Airlines (UAL), Azul (AZUL), American Airlines Group (AAL), Frontier Group (ULCC), Air Lease (AL), and Ryder System (R). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Copa (NYSE:CPA) and Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends and risk.
Copa has a net margin of 14.97% compared to Copa's net margin of 2.34%. Alaska Air Group's return on equity of 37.03% beat Copa's return on equity.
Copa currently has a consensus target price of $146.33, indicating a potential upside of 47.89%. Alaska Air Group has a consensus target price of $57.85, indicating a potential upside of 31.61%. Given Alaska Air Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Copa is more favorable than Alaska Air Group.
Copa has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alaska Air Group has a beta of 1.63, suggesting that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Alaska Air Group had 11 more articles in the media than Copa. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Alaska Air Group and 6 mentions for Copa. Alaska Air Group's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Copa's score of 0.27 indicating that Copa is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alaska Air Group received 181 more outperform votes than Copa when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.58% of users gave Alaska Air Group an outperform vote while only 64.97% of users gave Copa an outperform vote.
70.1% of Copa shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Alaska Air Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Alaska Air 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.
Copa has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Alaska Air Group. Copa is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alaska Air Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Copa beats Alaska Air Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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