SKYW vs. JBLU, CPA, ALGT, HA, SAVE, ALK, AZUL, ULCC, SNCY, and MESA
Should you be buying SkyWest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SkyWest include JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Copa (CPA), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Hawaiian (HA), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Alaska Air Group (ALK), Azul (AZUL), Frontier Group (ULCC), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), and Mesa Air Group (MESA). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ:JBLU) and SkyWest (NASDAQ:SKYW) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment and dividends.
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 has a beta of 1.86, indicating that its stock price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SkyWest has a beta of 1.95, indicating that its stock price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SkyWest has a net margin of 1.17% compared to SkyWest's net margin of -8.79%. JetBlue Airways' return on equity of 1.59% beat SkyWest's return on equity.
83.7% of JetBlue Airways shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.3% of SkyWest shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of JetBlue Airways shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of SkyWest shares are owned by 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.
JetBlue Airways presently has a consensus target price of $5.78, suggesting a potential upside of 0.96%. SkyWest has a consensus target price of $62.25, suggesting a potential downside of 14.89%. Given SkyWest's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe JetBlue Airways is more favorable than SkyWest.
In the previous week, JetBlue Airways had 30 more articles in the media than SkyWest. MarketBeat recorded 47 mentions for JetBlue Airways and 17 mentions for SkyWest. JetBlue Airways' average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat SkyWest's score of 0.02 indicating that SkyWest is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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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