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Blade Air Mobility (BLDE) Competitors

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BLDE vs. UP, CMRE, LPG, ULCC, NVGS, VTOL, GSL, ULH, SNCY, and CVLG

Should you be buying Blade Air Mobility stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Blade Air Mobility include Wheels Up Experience (UP), Costamare (CMRE), Dorian LPG (LPG), Frontier Group (ULCC), Navigator (NVGS), Bristow Group (VTOL), Global Ship Lease (GSL), Universal Logistics (ULH), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), and Covenant Logistics Group (CVLG). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.

Blade Air Mobility vs.

Wheels Up Experience (NYSE:UP) and Blade Air Mobility (NASDAQ:BLDE) are both small-cap aerospace companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk and community ranking.

Wheels Up Experience and Blade Air Mobility both received 16 outperform votes by MarketBeat users. However, 64.00% of users gave Blade Air Mobility an outperform vote while only 43.24% of users gave Wheels Up Experience an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Wheels Up ExperienceOutperform Votes
16
43.24%
Underperform Votes
21
56.76%
Blade Air MobilityOutperform Votes
16
64.00%
Underperform Votes
9
36.00%

Wheels Up Experience has a beta of 2.35, indicating that its stock price is 135% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Blade Air Mobility has a beta of 1.54, indicating that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Blade Air Mobility has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Wheels Up Experience. Blade Air Mobility is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wheels Up Experience, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Wheels Up Experience$772.53M1.47-$487.39M-$0.49-3.32
Blade Air Mobility$251.49M1.08-$56.08M-$0.34-9.88

Blade Air Mobility has a net margin of -21.28% compared to Wheels Up Experience's net margin of -39.97%. Blade Air Mobility's return on equity of -12.16% beat Wheels Up Experience's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Wheels Up Experience-39.97% -796.67% -27.26%
Blade Air Mobility -21.28%-12.16%-9.95%

Blade Air Mobility has a consensus price target of $6.25, suggesting a potential upside of 86.01%. Given Blade Air Mobility's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Blade Air Mobility is more favorable than Wheels Up Experience.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Wheels Up Experience
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Blade Air Mobility
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

In the previous week, Blade Air Mobility had 3 more articles in the media than Wheels Up Experience. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Blade Air Mobility and 0 mentions for Wheels Up Experience. Blade Air Mobility's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Wheels Up Experience's score of 0.44 indicating that Blade Air Mobility is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Wheels Up Experience Neutral
Blade Air Mobility Positive

98.2% of Wheels Up Experience shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.4% of Blade Air Mobility shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Wheels Up Experience shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.5% of Blade Air Mobility shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Blade Air Mobility beats Wheels Up Experience on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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BLDE vs. The Competition

MetricBlade Air MobilityAir transportation, nonscheduled IndustryBusiness SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$272.22M$372.54M$24.28B$8.39B
Dividend YieldN/AN/A2.48%4.10%
P/E Ratio-4.877.7133.3619.70
Price / Sales1.080.85283.63121.79
Price / CashN/A12.5030.9334.62
Price / Book1.084.135.414.50
Net Income-$56.08M-$130.46M$195.96M$248.22M
7 Day Performance-4.55%-2.62%-0.68%-0.80%
1 Month Performance29.73%20.58%16.74%11.52%
1 Year Performance7.69%-33.48%19.51%8.99%

Blade Air Mobility Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BLDE
Blade Air Mobility
3.0355 of 5 stars
$3.39
+0.9%
$6.25
+84.4%
+6.3%$275.38M$251.49M-4.93130
UP
Wheels Up Experience
0.3383 of 5 stars
$1.53
+5.2%
N/A-42.3%$1.07B$772.53M-3.052,170
CMRE
Costamare
4.0645 of 5 stars
$8.41
+8.3%
$13.50
+60.5%
-43.5%$1.01B$2.08B3.452,870
LPG
Dorian LPG
4.6321 of 5 stars
$22.93
+4.1%
$43.50
+89.7%
-55.0%$981.37M$418.84M5.83540News Coverage
Earnings Report
Dividend Cut
Gap Down
ULCC
Frontier Group
4.1971 of 5 stars
$4.16
+7.2%
$6.11
+46.9%
-34.2%$947.50M$3.82B11.566,470
NVGS
Navigator
4.2931 of 5 stars
$13.67
+1.6%
$21.60
+58.0%
-19.0%$933.40M$566.68M12.10120Gap Up
VTOL
Bristow Group
3.3671 of 5 stars
$30.23
+1.8%
$50.00
+65.4%
-22.0%$869.87M$1.43B16.252,920Positive News
High Trading Volume
GSL
Global Ship Lease
3.3592 of 5 stars
$23.29
+5.5%
$28.00
+20.2%
-9.8%$825.42M$705.53M2.587Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Upgrade
Analyst Revision
ULH
Universal Logistics
2.6116 of 5 stars
$25.43
+9.1%
$29.00
+14.0%
-47.7%$669.57M$1.74B5.158,000Gap Up
SNCY
Sun Country Airlines
4.112 of 5 stars
$12.30
+3.8%
$17.43
+41.7%
+10.6%$654.46M$1.09B12.952,510Positive News
CVLG
Covenant Logistics Group
4.4674 of 5 stars
$23.10
+10.1%
$33.00
+42.9%
-3.6%$613.20M$1.12B17.834,610Positive News
Dividend Announcement
High Trading Volume

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This page (NASDAQ:BLDE) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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