JBLU vs. SAVE, MESA, ALK, CPA, SKYW, ALGT, HA, DAL, LUV, and UAL
Should you be buying JetBlue Airways stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of JetBlue Airways include Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Mesa Air Group (MESA), Alaska Air Group (ALK), Copa (CPA), SkyWest (SKYW), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Hawaiian (HA), Delta Air Lines (DAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), and United Airlines (UAL). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Spirit Airlines (NYSE:SAVE) and JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ:JBLU) are both transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
JetBlue Airways received 699 more outperform votes than Spirit Airlines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.58% of users gave JetBlue Airways an outperform vote while only 29.35% of users gave Spirit Airlines an outperform vote.
58.7% of Spirit Airlines shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.7% of JetBlue Airways shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Spirit Airlines shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of JetBlue Airways shares are owned by company 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.
Spirit Airlines presently has a consensus target price of $2.64, indicating a potential downside of 10.71%. JetBlue Airways has a consensus target price of $5.55, indicating a potential downside of 10.63%. Given Spirit Airlines' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe JetBlue Airways is more favorable than Spirit Airlines.
JetBlue Airways has a net margin of -8.79% compared to JetBlue Airways' net margin of -9.21%. Spirit Airlines' return on equity of -5.72% beat JetBlue Airways' return on equity.
In the previous week, JetBlue Airways had 2 more articles in the media than Spirit Airlines. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for JetBlue Airways and 19 mentions for Spirit Airlines. Spirit Airlines' average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat JetBlue Airways' score of -0.19 indicating that JetBlue Airways is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Spirit Airlines has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JetBlue Airways has a beta of 1.93, indicating that its share price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500.
JetBlue Airways has higher revenue and earnings than Spirit Airlines. JetBlue Airways is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spirit Airlines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
JetBlue Airways beats Spirit Airlines on 17 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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