AZUL vs. JBLU, SKYW, ULCC, ALGT, CPA, SNCY, VLRS, HA, ALK, and AAL
Should you be buying Azul stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Azul include JetBlue Airways (JBLU), SkyWest (SKYW), Frontier Group (ULCC), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Copa (CPA), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (VLRS), Hawaiian (HA), Alaska Air Group (ALK), and American Airlines Group (AAL). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ:JBLU) and Azul (NYSE:AZUL) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability and earnings.
JetBlue Airways received 354 more outperform votes than Azul when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.96% of users gave Azul an outperform vote while only 61.73% of users gave JetBlue Airways an outperform vote.
In the previous week, JetBlue Airways had 8 more articles in the media than Azul. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for JetBlue Airways and 14 mentions for Azul. JetBlue Airways' average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat Azul's score of 0.16 indicating that Azul is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
83.7% of JetBlue Airways shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.8% of Azul shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of JetBlue Airways shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Azul shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Azul has lower revenue, but higher earnings than JetBlue Airways. Azul is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JetBlue Airways, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
JetBlue Airways presently has a consensus target price of $5.78, indicating a potential upside of 1.67%. Azul has a consensus target price of $12.26, indicating a potential upside of 118.93%. Given JetBlue Airways' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Azul is more favorable than JetBlue Airways.
Azul has a net margin of -2.68% compared to Azul's net margin of -8.79%. JetBlue Airways' return on equity of 0.00% beat Azul's return on equity.
JetBlue Airways has a beta of 1.86, meaning that its share price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Azul has a beta of 1.85, meaning that its share price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Azul beats JetBlue Airways on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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