JBLU vs. SKYW, ALGT, HA, CPA, SAVE, MESA, ALK, AZUL, ULCC, and SNCY
Should you be buying JetBlue Airways stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of JetBlue Airways include SkyWest (SKYW), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Hawaiian (HA), Copa (CPA), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Mesa Air Group (MESA), Alaska Air Group (ALK), Azul (AZUL), Frontier Group (ULCC), and Sun Country Airlines (SNCY). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ:JBLU) and SkyWest (NASDAQ:SKYW) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, risk, media sentiment and profitability.
In the previous week, JetBlue Airways had 27 more articles in the media than SkyWest. MarketBeat recorded 50 mentions for JetBlue Airways and 23 mentions for SkyWest. SkyWest's average media sentiment score of 0.23 beat JetBlue Airways' score of 0.11 indicating that SkyWest is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
JetBlue Airways received 276 more outperform votes than SkyWest when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.18% of users gave SkyWest an outperform vote while only 61.73% of users gave JetBlue Airways an outperform vote.
JetBlue Airways currently has a consensus target price of $5.78, indicating a potential downside of 2.28%. SkyWest has a consensus target price of $62.25, indicating a potential downside of 12.75%. Given JetBlue Airways' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe JetBlue Airways is more favorable than SkyWest.
83.7% of JetBlue Airways shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.3% of SkyWest shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of JetBlue Airways shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of SkyWest shares are held 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.
JetBlue Airways has a beta of 1.86, suggesting that its stock price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SkyWest has a beta of 1.95, suggesting that its stock price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SkyWest has a net margin of 1.17% compared to JetBlue Airways' net margin of -3.23%. SkyWest's return on equity of 1.59% beat JetBlue Airways' return on equity.
SkyWest has lower revenue, but higher earnings than JetBlue Airways. JetBlue Airways is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SkyWest, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
SkyWest beats JetBlue Airways on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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