EZJ vs. WIZZ, RYA, IAG, RR.L, HLMA, AXON, RTO, JAR, ITRK, and MGGT
Should you be buying easyJet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of easyJet include Wizz Air (WIZZ), Ryanair (RYA), International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG), Rolls-Royce Holdings plc (RR.L), Halma (HLMA), Axon Enterprise (AXON), Rentokil Initial (RTO), Jardine Matheson (JAR), Intertek Group (ITRK), and Meggitt (MGGT). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
easyJet vs.
Wizz Air (LON:WIZZ) and easyJet (LON:EZJ) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, valuation and profitability.
Wizz Air has a net margin of 5.80% compared to easyJet's net margin of 4.27%. Wizz Air's return on equity of 122.00% beat easyJet's return on equity.
easyJet received 1025 more outperform votes than Wizz Air when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 76.42% of users gave Wizz Air an outperform vote while only 67.31% of users gave easyJet an outperform vote.
Wizz Air presently has a consensus target price of GBX 2,275, suggesting a potential upside of 32.42%. easyJet has a consensus target price of GBX 640, suggesting a potential upside of 24.37%. Given Wizz Air's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Wizz Air is more favorable than easyJet.
easyJet has higher revenue and earnings than Wizz Air. Wizz Air is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than easyJet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
63.2% of Wizz Air shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.3% of easyJet shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.7% of Wizz Air shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.7% of easyJet shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Wizz Air has a beta of 2.28, indicating that its stock price is 128% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, easyJet has a beta of 2.49, indicating that its stock price is 149% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Wizz Air had 8 more articles in the media than easyJet. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Wizz Air and 1 mentions for easyJet. easyJet's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Wizz Air's score of -0.05 indicating that easyJet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
easyJet beats Wizz Air on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:EZJ) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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