AL vs. AER, AMP, AXP, DAL, EQH, ITT, PFG, PRU, SF, and TNL
Should you be buying Air Lease stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Air Lease include Aercap (AER), Ameriprise Financial (AMP), American Express (AXP), Delta Air Lines (DAL), Equitable (EQH), ITT (ITT), Principal Financial Group (PFG), Prudential Financial (PRU), Stifel Financial (SF), and Travel + Leisure (TNL).
Air Lease vs. Its Competitors
Air Lease (NYSE:AL) and Aercap (NYSE:AER) are both transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, earnings and media sentiment.
Air Lease has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aercap has a beta of 1.46, indicating that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Air Lease pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Aercap pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Air Lease pays out 10.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Aercap pays out 6.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Air Lease has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years and Aercap has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Air Lease is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Aercap has a net margin of 36.93% compared to Air Lease's net margin of 34.04%. Aercap's return on equity of 13.13% beat Air Lease's return on equity.
In the previous week, Air Lease had 4 more articles in the media than Aercap. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Air Lease and 21 mentions for Aercap. Aercap's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Air Lease's score of 0.61 indicating that Aercap is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Aercap has higher revenue and earnings than Air Lease. Air Lease is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aercap, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
94.6% of Air Lease shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.4% of Aercap shares are held by institutional investors. 6.8% of Air Lease shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Aercap shares are held by company 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.
Air Lease presently has a consensus target price of $60.29, indicating a potential downside of 5.26%. Aercap has a consensus target price of $122.57, indicating a potential downside of 1.44%. Given Aercap's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Aercap is more favorable than Air Lease.
Summary
Aercap beats Air Lease on 15 of the 19 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 NYSE 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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This page (NYSE:AL) was last updated on 9/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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