SKYW vs. ALK, CPA, JBLU, ALGT, HA, SAVE, MESA, DAL, LUV, and UAL
Should you be buying SkyWest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SkyWest include Alaska Air Group (ALK), Copa (CPA), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Hawaiian (HA), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Mesa Air Group (MESA), Delta Air Lines (DAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), and United Airlines (UAL). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
SkyWest (NASDAQ:SKYW) and Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Alaska Air Group had 6 more articles in the media than SkyWest. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Alaska Air Group and 20 mentions for SkyWest. SkyWest's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Alaska Air Group's score of 0.02 indicating that SkyWest is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SkyWest presently has a consensus target price of $76.67, indicating a potential downside of 0.10%. Alaska Air Group has a consensus target price of $54.60, indicating a potential upside of 38.40%. Given Alaska Air Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Alaska Air Group is more favorable than SkyWest.
Alaska Air Group received 371 more outperform votes than SkyWest when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.60% of users gave Alaska Air Group an outperform vote while only 68.23% of users gave SkyWest an outperform vote.
81.3% of SkyWest shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Alaska Air Group shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of SkyWest shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Alaska Air Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Alaska Air Group has higher revenue and earnings than SkyWest. Alaska Air Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SkyWest, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SkyWest has a beta of 1.96, suggesting that its stock price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alaska Air Group has a beta of 1.6, suggesting that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SkyWest has a net margin of 5.55% compared to Alaska Air Group's net margin of 2.14%. Alaska Air Group's return on equity of 11.97% beat SkyWest's return on equity.
Summary
Alaska Air Group beats SkyWest on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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