MESA vs. SAVE, HA, ALGT, DAL, RYAAY, LUV, UAL, AAL, ALK, and CPA
Should you be buying Mesa Air Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mesa Air Group include Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Hawaiian (HA), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Delta Air Lines (DAL), Ryanair (RYAAY), Southwest Airlines (LUV), United Airlines (UAL), American Airlines Group (AAL), Alaska Air Group (ALK), and Copa (CPA). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Spirit Airlines (NYSE:SAVE) and Mesa Air Group (NASDAQ:MESA) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Spirit Airlines has a net margin of -9.21% compared to Spirit Airlines' net margin of -25.47%. Mesa Air Group's return on equity of -34.64% beat Spirit Airlines' return on equity.
In the previous week, Spirit Airlines had 14 more articles in the media than Mesa Air Group. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Spirit Airlines and 5 mentions for Mesa Air Group. Spirit Airlines' average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Mesa Air Group's score of -0.19 indicating that Mesa Air Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Spirit Airlines presently has a consensus target price of $2.64, suggesting a potential downside of 10.71%. Given Mesa Air Group's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Spirit Airlines is more favorable than Mesa Air Group.
Mesa Air Group received 165 more outperform votes than Spirit Airlines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.14% of users gave Mesa Air Group an outperform vote while only 29.35% of users gave Spirit Airlines an outperform vote.
58.7% of Spirit Airlines shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.3% of Mesa Air Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Spirit Airlines shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.6% of Mesa Air Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Mesa Air Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Spirit Airlines. Spirit Airlines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mesa Air Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Spirit Airlines has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mesa Air Group has a beta of 3.17, suggesting that its stock price is 217% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Mesa Air Group beats Spirit Airlines on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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