RYAAY vs. DAL, LUV, UAL, AAL, JBHT, EXPD, WAB, ZTO, ODFL, and UHAL
Should you be buying Ryanair stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ryanair include Delta Air Lines (DAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), United Airlines (UAL), American Airlines Group (AAL), J.B. Hunt Transport Services (JBHT), Expeditors International of Washington (EXPD), Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies (WAB), ZTO Express (Cayman) (ZTO), Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), and U-Haul (UHAL). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Ryanair vs.
Ryanair (NASDAQ:RYAAY) and Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Ryanair has a net margin of 11.90% compared to Delta Air Lines' net margin of 3.51%. Delta Air Lines' return on equity of 56.49% beat Ryanair's return on equity.
In the previous week, Ryanair and Ryanair both had 6 articles in the media. Ryanair's average media sentiment score of 0.48 beat Delta Air Lines' score of 0.34 indicating that Ryanair is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ryanair has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Delta Air Lines. Delta Air Lines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ryanair, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ryanair presently has a consensus target price of $43.25, indicating a potential downside of 58.84%. Delta Air Lines has a consensus target price of $49.38, indicating a potential upside of 35.93%. Given Delta Air Lines' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Delta Air Lines is more favorable than Ryanair.
42.8% of Ryanair shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.5% of Delta Air Lines shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Delta Air Lines shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Delta Air Lines received 626 more outperform votes than Ryanair when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.61% of users gave Delta Air Lines an outperform vote while only 70.19% of users gave Ryanair an outperform vote.
Ryanair has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Delta Air Lines has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Ryanair and Delta Air Lines tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding RYAAY and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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