SPCE vs. ASLE, RDW, SPIR, PKE, VTSI, BAER, ATRO, EVTL, TATT, and LUNR
Should you be buying Virgin Galactic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Virgin Galactic include AerSale (ASLE), Redwire (RDW), Spire Global (SPIR), Park Aerospace (PKE), VirTra (VTSI), Bridger Aerospace Group (BAER), Astronics (ATRO), Vertical Aerospace (EVTL), TAT Technologies (TATT), and Intuitive Machines (LUNR). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
AerSale (NASDAQ:ASLE) and Virgin Galactic (NYSE:SPCE) are both small-cap aerospace companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability and community ranking.
AerSale has a beta of 0.23, suggesting that its stock price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Virgin Galactic has a beta of 1.71, suggesting that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Virgin Galactic had 27 more articles in the media than AerSale. MarketBeat recorded 39 mentions for Virgin Galactic and 12 mentions for AerSale. Virgin Galactic's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat AerSale's score of 0.13 indicating that AerSale is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AerSale has a net margin of 0.20% compared to AerSale's net margin of -5,301.61%. Virgin Galactic's return on equity of -0.87% beat AerSale's return on equity.
69.5% of AerSale shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.6% of Virgin Galactic shares are held by institutional investors. 37.3% of AerSale shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Virgin Galactic shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
AerSale has higher revenue and earnings than Virgin Galactic. AerSale is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Virgin Galactic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AerSale currently has a consensus price target of $17.00, suggesting a potential upside of 113.30%. Virgin Galactic has a consensus price target of $2.26, suggesting a potential upside of 79.71%. Given Virgin Galactic's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe AerSale is more favorable than Virgin Galactic.
Virgin Galactic received 132 more outperform votes than AerSale when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.89% of users gave Virgin Galactic an outperform vote while only 45.00% of users gave AerSale an outperform vote.
Summary
AerSale beats Virgin Galactic on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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