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Allegiant Travel (ALGT) Competitors

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ALGT vs. JBLU, DAL, UAL, LUV, ALK, CPA, SKYW, CAAP, VTOL, and ULCC

Should you be buying Allegiant Travel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Allegiant Travel include JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Delta Air Lines (DAL), United Airlines (UAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), Alaska Air Group (ALK), Copa (CPA), SkyWest (SKYW), Corporacion America Airports (CAAP), Bristow Group (VTOL), and Frontier Group (ULCC). These companies are all part of the "trans - airline" industry.

Allegiant Travel vs. Its Competitors

Allegiant Travel (NASDAQ:ALGT) and JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ:JBLU) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.

85.8% of Allegiant Travel shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.7% of JetBlue Airways shares are held by institutional investors. 14.7% of Allegiant Travel shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of JetBlue Airways shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

JetBlue Airways has a net margin of -3.12% compared to Allegiant Travel's net margin of -8.11%. Allegiant Travel's return on equity of 5.46% beat JetBlue Airways' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Allegiant Travel-8.11% 5.46% 1.42%
JetBlue Airways -3.12%-11.93%-1.93%

Allegiant Travel presently has a consensus target price of $64.70, suggesting a potential upside of 10.69%. JetBlue Airways has a consensus target price of $5.16, suggesting a potential upside of 16.59%. Given JetBlue Airways' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe JetBlue Airways is more favorable than Allegiant Travel.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Allegiant Travel
1 Sell rating(s)
8 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.18
JetBlue Airways
4 Sell rating(s)
8 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.67

Allegiant Travel has higher earnings, but lower revenue than JetBlue Airways. JetBlue Airways is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Allegiant Travel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Allegiant Travel$2.51B0.42-$240.24M-$11.57-5.05
JetBlue Airways$9.28B0.17-$795M-$0.82-5.40

Allegiant Travel has a beta of 1.71, indicating that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JetBlue Airways has a beta of 1.76, indicating that its stock price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Allegiant Travel had 1 more articles in the media than JetBlue Airways. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Allegiant Travel and 15 mentions for JetBlue Airways. Allegiant Travel's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat JetBlue Airways' score of 0.14 indicating that Allegiant Travel is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Allegiant Travel
1 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
9 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
JetBlue Airways
2 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
5 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Summary

Allegiant Travel beats JetBlue Airways on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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ALGT vs. The Competition

MetricAllegiant TravelTRANS IndustryTransportation SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$1.07B$7.38B$7.23B$8.93B
Dividend YieldN/A8,945.39%922.94%4.12%
P/E Ratio-5.0710.2312.8019.86
Price / Sales0.421,700.90308.09113.78
Price / Cash3.334.877.3257.06
Price / Book0.982.512.165.38
Net Income-$240.24M$607.36M$560.55M$248.50M
7 Day Performance7.68%4.35%2.02%2.78%
1 Month Performance5.98%2.18%4.99%5.84%
1 Year Performance17.23%50.40%2.14%20.06%

Allegiant Travel Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ALGT
Allegiant Travel
4.7212 of 5 stars
$58.45
+0.1%
$64.70
+10.7%
+18.0%$1.07B$2.51B-5.075,991Trending News
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JBLU
JetBlue Airways
3.1514 of 5 stars
$4.10
+2.2%
$5.16
+25.8%
-24.5%$1.45B$9.28B-5.0022,793
DAL
Delta Air Lines
4.6589 of 5 stars
$48.32
+2.4%
$61.67
+27.6%
+4.5%$31.55B$61.64B8.57100,000
UAL
United Airlines
4.7346 of 5 stars
$76.97
+3.6%
$104.64
+36.0%
+65.6%$25.14B$57.06B7.02107,300Positive News
LUV
Southwest Airlines
3.84 of 5 stars
$31.91
+1.7%
$31.88
-0.1%
+18.9%$18.18B$27.48B37.5472,450
ALK
Alaska Air Group
4.8393 of 5 stars
$47.76
+1.7%
$66.83
+39.9%
+25.1%$5.86B$11.74B17.3733,941
CPA
Copa
4.8754 of 5 stars
$102.78
+0.3%
$153.00
+48.9%
+16.3%$4.23B$3.45B7.027,909Positive News
SKYW
SkyWest
4.3578 of 5 stars
$97.79
+2.7%
$120.67
+23.4%
+27.4%$3.96B$3.53B11.1914,610Analyst Upgrade
CAAP
Corporacion America Airports
2.2048 of 5 stars
$19.65
-0.5%
$22.53
+14.7%
+21.4%$3.21B$1.86B22.856,100News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
VTOL
Bristow Group
3.4344 of 5 stars
$31.92
-4.0%
$50.00
+56.6%
+2.9%$918.34M$1.42B8.183,447
ULCC
Frontier Group
4.0093 of 5 stars
$3.51
+3.8%
$6.00
+70.9%
-18.0%$799.44M$3.78B12.107,938News Coverage
Analyst Forecast

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This page (NASDAQ:ALGT) was last updated on 7/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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