VLRS vs. PBI, RGR, MATW, TPC, YELL, TBI, HTZ, HURN, SXI, and TNC
Should you be buying Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación include Pitney Bowes (PBI), Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (RGR), Matthews International (MATW), Tutor Perini (TPC), Yellow (YELL), TrueBlue (TBI), Hertz Global (HTZ), Huron Consulting Group (HURN), Standex International (SXI), and Tennant (TNC).
Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) and Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (NYSE:VLRS) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation and profitability.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación received 111 more outperform votes than Pitney Bowes when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.49% of users gave Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación an outperform vote while only 54.39% of users gave Pitney Bowes an outperform vote.
67.9% of Pitney Bowes shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.3% of Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación shares are held by institutional investors. 14.3% of Pitney Bowes shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación has a net margin of 3.40% compared to Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación's net margin of -11.67%. Pitney Bowes' return on equity of 54.46% beat Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación's return on equity.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación has a consensus price target of $14.02, suggesting a potential upside of 66.47%. Given Pitney Bowes' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación is more favorable than Pitney Bowes.
Pitney Bowes has a beta of 2.14, indicating that its share price is 114% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación has a beta of 2.49, indicating that its share price is 149% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Pitney Bowes had 21 more articles in the media than Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Pitney Bowes and 4 mentions for Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación. Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Pitney Bowes' score of 0.29 indicating that Pitney Bowes is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación has higher revenue and earnings than Pitney Bowes. Pitney Bowes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación beats Pitney Bowes on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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