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ULCC vs. AAL, ALGT, JBLU, SNCY, UAL, ALK, DAL, VRRM, GBTG, and PAGP

Should you be buying Frontier Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Frontier Group include American Airlines Group (AAL), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), United Airlines (UAL), Alaska Air Group (ALK), Delta Air Lines (DAL), Verra Mobility (VRRM), Global Business Travel Group (GBTG), and Plains GP (PAGP).

Frontier Group vs. Its Competitors

American Airlines Group (NASDAQ:AAL) and Frontier Group (NASDAQ:ULCC) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.

52.4% of American Airlines Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of American Airlines Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 48.0% of Frontier Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

American Airlines Group presently has a consensus target price of $16.94, suggesting a potential upside of 26.52%. Frontier Group has a consensus target price of $5.61, suggesting a potential upside of 0.02%. Given American Airlines Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe American Airlines Group is more favorable than Frontier Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
American Airlines Group
1 Sell rating(s)
8 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.58
Frontier Group
0 Sell rating(s)
8 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.20

American Airlines Group has a net margin of 1.05% compared to Frontier Group's net margin of -0.87%. Frontier Group's return on equity of -12.56% beat American Airlines Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
American Airlines Group1.05% -24.55% 1.68%
Frontier Group -0.87%-12.56%-1.12%

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
American Airlines Group$54.21B0.16$846M$0.8016.74
Frontier Group$3.78B0.34$85M-$0.16-35.06

In the previous week, American Airlines Group had 9 more articles in the media than Frontier Group. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for American Airlines Group and 10 mentions for Frontier Group. Frontier Group's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat American Airlines Group's score of 0.82 indicating that Frontier Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
American Airlines Group
8 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
7 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Frontier Group
6 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

American Airlines Group has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Frontier Group has a beta of 2.62, indicating that its stock price is 162% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

American Airlines Group beats Frontier Group on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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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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ULCC vs. The Competition

MetricFrontier GroupTRANS IndustryTransportation SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$1.28B$8.15B$7.28B$9.68B
Dividend YieldN/A8,199.86%958.41%4.54%
P/E Ratio-35.0610.8913.5926.40
Price / Sales0.342,412.96448.39204.59
Price / Cash8.765.457.9228.92
Price / Book2.092.892.196.06
Net Income$85M$587.12M$571.12M$266.05M
7 Day Performance15.67%2.96%0.07%-0.07%
1 Month Performance41.31%17.71%6.20%5.83%
1 Year Performance54.55%102.00%11.15%17.89%

Frontier Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ULCC
Frontier Group
1.1624 of 5 stars
$5.61
+14.5%
$5.61
+0.0%
+35.0%$1.28B$3.78B-35.067,938News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
Options Volume
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
AAL
American Airlines Group
4.1992 of 5 stars
$13.00
-4.1%
$16.82
+29.4%
+25.9%$8.94B$54.21B16.25133,300
ALGT
Allegiant Travel
3.8071 of 5 stars
$59.60
-1.7%
$64.33
+7.9%
+48.9%$1.11B$2.51B-3.745,991
JBLU
JetBlue Airways
1.907 of 5 stars
$5.25
-2.4%
$5.16
-1.7%
+5.3%$1.96B$9.28B-4.7722,793News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Down
SNCY
Sun Country Airlines
4.0051 of 5 stars
$12.45
-1.4%
$17.38
+39.6%
+20.7%$673.39M$1.08B11.753,141Positive News
Gap Down
UAL
United Airlines
3.9229 of 5 stars
$102.34
-0.6%
$111.43
+8.9%
+138.4%$33.34B$57.06B10.25107,300Positive News
ALK
Alaska Air Group
4.0918 of 5 stars
$60.02
+0.9%
$68.00
+13.3%
+74.0%$6.86B$11.74B24.4033,941Positive News
Short Interest ↓
DAL
Delta Air Lines
4.2099 of 5 stars
$60.45
-2.0%
$66.21
+9.5%
+45.5%$40.28B$61.64B8.76100,000Positive News
Gap Down
VRRM
Verra Mobility
2.7485 of 5 stars
$24.96
-2.3%
$27.88
+11.7%
-10.0%$4.07B$879.21M104.001,879Positive News
GBTG
Global Business Travel Group
1.5344 of 5 stars
$8.18
-1.0%
$9.88
+20.8%
+19.6%$3.96B$2.42B-62.8818,000News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Down
PAGP
Plains GP
2.5394 of 5 stars
$18.81
-0.8%
$20.88
+11.0%
+0.5%$3.72B$47.80B35.494,100News Coverage
Positive News
Dividend Announcement

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