AAL vs. HA, RYAAY, LUV, UAL, ALK, CPA, SKYW, JBLU, AZUL, and ALGT
Should you be buying American Airlines Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Airlines Group include Hawaiian (HA), Ryanair (RYAAY), Southwest Airlines (LUV), United Airlines (UAL), Alaska Air Group (ALK), Copa (CPA), SkyWest (SKYW), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Azul (AZUL), and Allegiant Travel (ALGT). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Hawaiian (NASDAQ:HA) and American Airlines Group (NASDAQ:AAL) are both transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings and dividends.
Hawaiian presently has a consensus target price of $11.75, suggesting a potential downside of 5.55%. American Airlines Group has a consensus target price of $13.80, suggesting a potential upside of 29.94%. Given Hawaiian's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe American Airlines Group is more favorable than Hawaiian.
American Airlines Group has higher revenue and earnings than Hawaiian. Hawaiian is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Airlines Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
American Airlines Group has a net margin of 0.94% compared to American Airlines Group's net margin of -10.90%. Hawaiian's return on equity of -31.65% beat American Airlines Group's return on equity.
Hawaiian has a beta of 2.38, indicating that its stock price is 138% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Airlines Group has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, American Airlines Group had 52 more articles in the media than Hawaiian. MarketBeat recorded 77 mentions for American Airlines Group and 25 mentions for Hawaiian. American Airlines Group's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Hawaiian's score of 0.01 indicating that Hawaiian is being referred to more favorably in the media.
70.2% of Hawaiian shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.4% of American Airlines Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.8% of Hawaiian shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of American Airlines Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
American Airlines Group received 456 more outperform votes than Hawaiian when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.62% of users gave American Airlines Group an outperform vote while only 52.30% of users gave Hawaiian an outperform vote.
Summary
American Airlines Group beats Hawaiian on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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