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United Airlines (UAL) Competitors

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$68.82 -0.11 (-0.16%)
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UAL vs. DAL, LUV, ALK, CPA, SKYW, JBLU, ALGT, RYAAY, AAL, and ULCC

Should you be buying United Airlines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of United Airlines include Delta Air Lines (DAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), Alaska Air Group (ALK), Copa (CPA), SkyWest (SKYW), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Ryanair (RYAAY), American Airlines Group (AAL), and Frontier Group (ULCC). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.

United Airlines vs.

United Airlines (NASDAQ:UAL) and Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.

United Airlines presently has a consensus target price of $96.60, indicating a potential upside of 41.02%. Delta Air Lines has a consensus target price of $61.06, indicating a potential upside of 47.28%. Given Delta Air Lines' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Delta Air Lines is more favorable than United Airlines.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
United Airlines
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
15 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Delta Air Lines
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
10 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.93

Delta Air Lines has higher revenue and earnings than United Airlines. United Airlines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Delta Air Lines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
United Airlines$57.74B0.39$3.15B$10.976.24
Delta Air Lines$61.94B0.44$3.46B$5.647.35

United Airlines has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Delta Air Lines has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, United Airlines had 5 more articles in the media than Delta Air Lines. MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for United Airlines and 38 mentions for Delta Air Lines. United Airlines' average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat Delta Air Lines' score of 1.08 indicating that United Airlines is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
United Airlines
31 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
4 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Delta Air Lines
28 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
4 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

69.7% of United Airlines shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.9% of Delta Air Lines shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of United Airlines shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Delta Air Lines shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Delta Air Lines received 252 more outperform votes than United Airlines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.56% of users gave Delta Air Lines an outperform vote while only 66.69% of users gave United Airlines an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
United AirlinesOutperform Votes
1009
66.69%
Underperform Votes
504
33.31%
Delta Air LinesOutperform Votes
1261
76.56%
Underperform Votes
386
23.44%

Delta Air Lines has a net margin of 5.61% compared to United Airlines' net margin of 5.52%. United Airlines' return on equity of 32.26% beat Delta Air Lines' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
United Airlines5.52% 32.26% 4.84%
Delta Air Lines 5.61%30.41%5.30%

Summary

Delta Air Lines beats United Airlines on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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UAL vs. The Competition

MetricUnited AirlinesAir transportation, scheduled IndustryTransportation SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$22.37B$2.18T$285.91B$7.75B
Dividend YieldN/A3.49%4.04%4.22%
P/E Ratio7.267.3513.0318.43
Price / Sales0.39194.35212.64102.88
Price / Cash5.227.5211.5434.62
Price / Book1.781.571.784.23
Net Income$3.15B$805.72M$512.32M$248.23M
7 Day Performance0.69%-1.82%2.18%2.79%
1 Month Performance-2.46%-9.14%-2.80%1.94%
1 Year Performance33.11%-17.19%-10.16%5.20%

United Airlines Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
UAL
United Airlines
4.864 of 5 stars
$68.82
-0.2%
$96.60
+40.4%
+30.1%$22.48B$57.74B7.3092,800Short Interest ↓
Positive News
Gap Down
DAL
Delta Air Lines
4.9752 of 5 stars
$41.72
+0.3%
$61.06
+46.4%
-16.6%$27.21B$61.94B7.8295,000Dividend Announcement
LUV
Southwest Airlines
3.9169 of 5 stars
$26.49
0.0%
$30.54
+15.3%
+1.5%$15.19B$27.58B36.7766,700Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
ALK
Alaska Air Group
4.8832 of 5 stars
$42.67
+1.8%
$65.92
+54.5%
-1.0%$5.23B$12.64B13.9725,500Earnings Report
Gap Down
CPA
Copa
4.6197 of 5 stars
$91.68
+1.3%
$153.29
+67.2%
-6.9%$3.85B$3.44B6.296,130Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
SKYW
SkyWest
4.7763 of 5 stars
$87.17
-0.8%
$120.67
+38.4%
+18.0%$3.55B$3.53B11.2413,121Earnings Report
Short Interest ↓
JBLU
JetBlue Airways
3.3027 of 5 stars
$4.00
+3.0%
$5.09
+27.3%
-29.2%$1.42B$9.28B-1.7120,000Positive News
ALGT
Allegiant Travel
4.6191 of 5 stars
$45.58
-1.2%
$67.00
+47.0%
-17.9%$835.20M$2.51B-3.415,320Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Revision
Gap Down
RYAAY
Ryanair
4.0987 of 5 stars
$45.85
-0.9%
$147.00
+220.6%
-66.2%$24.38B$13.82B14.0519,100Positive News
AAL
American Airlines Group
4.7835 of 5 stars
$9.74
-0.2%
$16.25
+66.9%
-29.2%$6.41B$54.21B8.52129,700Earnings Report
Short Interest ↑
Analyst Revision
Gap Down
ULCC
Frontier Group
4.0149 of 5 stars
$3.17
-2.0%
$6.11
+93.1%
-49.6%$719.24M$3.78B8.796,470Upcoming Earnings
Gap Down

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This page (NASDAQ:UAL) was last updated on 4/30/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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