ASLE vs. WLFC, SPCE, HDSN, PKE, RDW, SPIR, BAER, VTSI, EVTL, and ATRO
Should you be buying AerSale stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AerSale include Willis Lease Finance (WLFC), Virgin Galactic (SPCE), Hudson Technologies (HDSN), Park Aerospace (PKE), Redwire (RDW), Spire Global (SPIR), Bridger Aerospace Group (BAER), VirTra (VTSI), Vertical Aerospace (EVTL), and Astronics (ATRO).
Willis Lease Finance (NASDAQ:WLFC) and AerSale (NASDAQ:ASLE) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking and dividends.
Willis Lease Finance has a net margin of 13.45% compared to Willis Lease Finance's net margin of -1.66%. AerSale's return on equity of 13.77% beat Willis Lease Finance's return on equity.
AerSale has a consensus price target of $17.00, suggesting a potential upside of 110.92%. Given Willis Lease Finance's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe AerSale is more favorable than Willis Lease Finance.
In the previous week, Willis Lease Finance had 1 more articles in the media than AerSale. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Willis Lease Finance and 10 mentions for AerSale. Willis Lease Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat AerSale's score of 0.51 indicating that AerSale is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Willis Lease Finance has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AerSale has a beta of 0.23, suggesting that its stock price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Willis Lease Finance received 156 more outperform votes than AerSale when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.74% of users gave Willis Lease Finance an outperform vote while only 45.00% of users gave AerSale an outperform vote.
93.7% of Willis Lease Finance shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.5% of AerSale shares are held by institutional investors. 57.0% of Willis Lease Finance shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 37.3% of AerSale shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Willis Lease Finance has higher revenue and earnings than AerSale. AerSale is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Willis Lease Finance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Willis Lease Finance beats AerSale on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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