ULCC vs. ALGT, JBLU, SNCY, VLRS, HA, AZUL, SAVE, SKYW, CPA, and ALK
Should you be buying Frontier Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Frontier Group include Allegiant Travel (ALGT), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (VLRS), Hawaiian (HA), Azul (AZUL), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), SkyWest (SKYW), Copa (CPA), and Alaska Air Group (ALK). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Allegiant Travel (NASDAQ:ALGT) and Frontier Group (NASDAQ:ULCC) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
Allegiant Travel has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Frontier Group. Frontier Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Allegiant Travel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Frontier Group had 2 more articles in the media than Allegiant Travel. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Frontier Group and 5 mentions for Allegiant Travel. Frontier Group's average media sentiment score of 0.29 beat Allegiant Travel's score of 0.26 indicating that Allegiant Travel is being referred to more favorably in the media.
85.8% of Allegiant Travel shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.5% of Allegiant Travel shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 81.5% of Frontier Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Allegiant Travel has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Frontier Group has a beta of 2.57, meaning that its stock price is 157% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Allegiant Travel received 499 more outperform votes than Frontier Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.04% of users gave Allegiant Travel an outperform vote while only 42.11% of users gave Frontier Group an outperform vote.
Allegiant Travel presently has a consensus price target of $89.75, indicating a potential upside of 57.43%. Frontier Group has a consensus price target of $7.78, indicating a potential upside of 27.78%. Given Frontier Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Allegiant Travel is more favorable than Frontier Group.
Allegiant Travel has a net margin of 4.54% compared to Allegiant Travel's net margin of -0.31%. Allegiant Travel's return on equity of 5.33% beat Frontier Group's return on equity.
Summary
Allegiant Travel beats Frontier Group on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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