AL vs. TGH, ALK, R, KEX, FRO, HRI, GATX, GXO, CAR, and LSTR
Should you be buying Air Lease stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Air Lease include Textainer Group (TGH), Alaska Air Group (ALK), Ryder System (R), Kirby (KEX), Frontline (FRO), Herc (HRI), GATX (GATX), GXO Logistics (GXO), Avis Budget Group (CAR), and Landstar System (LSTR). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Textainer Group (NYSE:TGH) and Air Lease (NYSE:AL) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
44.3% of Textainer Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.6% of Air Lease shares are held by institutional investors. 4.1% of Textainer Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.6% of Air Lease shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Textainer Group has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Air Lease has a beta of 1.65, meaning that its share price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Textainer Group currently has a consensus price target of $47.50, suggesting a potential downside of 4.98%. Air Lease has a consensus price target of $53.25, suggesting a potential upside of 8.61%. Given Textainer Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Air Lease is more favorable than Textainer Group.
Textainer Group has a net margin of 26.57% compared to Textainer Group's net margin of 22.89%. Air Lease's return on equity of 12.86% beat Textainer Group's return on equity.
Textainer Group pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Air Lease pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Textainer Group pays out 27.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Air Lease pays out 16.3% 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. Textainer Group has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Air Lease has increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years.
Air Lease received 278 more outperform votes than Textainer Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.19% of users gave Air Lease an outperform vote while only 51.29% of users gave Textainer Group an outperform vote.
Air Lease has higher revenue and earnings than Textainer Group. Air Lease is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Textainer Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Air Lease had 3 more articles in the media than Textainer Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Air Lease and 1 mentions for Textainer Group. Textainer Group's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Air Lease's score of 0.00 indicating that Air Lease is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Air Lease beats Textainer Group on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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