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ALK vs. AAL, ALGT, JBLU, SKYW, UAL, BA, DAL, LUV, CPA, and LTM

Should you be buying Alaska Air Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alaska Air Group include American Airlines Group (AAL), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), SkyWest (SKYW), United Airlines (UAL), Boeing (BA), Delta Air Lines (DAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), Copa (CPA), and LATAM Airlines Group (LTM).

Alaska Air Group vs. Its Competitors

Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) and American Airlines Group (NASDAQ:AAL) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Alaska Air Group currently has a consensus target price of $68.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.32%. American Airlines Group has a consensus target price of $16.94, suggesting a potential upside of 30.47%. Given American Airlines Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe American Airlines Group is more favorable than Alaska Air Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Alaska Air Group
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
12 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.92
American Airlines Group
1 Sell rating(s)
8 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.58

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Alaska Air Group$11.74B0.63$395M$2.4626.00
American Airlines Group$54.21B0.16$846M$0.8016.23

Alaska Air Group has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Airlines Group has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Alaska Air Group has a net margin of 2.33% compared to American Airlines Group's net margin of 1.05%. Alaska Air Group's return on equity of 12.62% beat American Airlines Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Alaska Air Group2.33% 12.62% 2.70%
American Airlines Group 1.05%-24.55%1.68%

81.9% of Alaska Air Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.4% of American Airlines Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Alaska Air Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of American Airlines Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Alaska Air Group had 2 more articles in the media than American Airlines Group. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Alaska Air Group and 15 mentions for American Airlines Group. American Airlines Group's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Alaska Air Group's score of 1.00 indicating that American Airlines Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Alaska Air Group
11 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
American Airlines Group
12 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Alaska Air Group beats American Airlines 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 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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ALK vs. The Competition

MetricAlaska Air GroupTRANS IndustryTransportation SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$7.36B$8.10B$7.25B$21.62B
Dividend YieldN/A8,199.46%949.03%3.51%
P/E Ratio25.9510.4313.7629.82
Price / Sales0.632,489.09462.4051.17
Price / Cash6.555.307.9624.46
Price / Book1.862.872.224.60
Net Income$395M$587.12M$562.43M$999.91M
7 Day Performance1.91%0.32%2.05%1.48%
1 Month Performance24.96%10.16%6.20%6.90%
1 Year Performance61.92%78.40%11.58%17.38%

Alaska Air Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ALK
Alaska Air Group
4.1041 of 5 stars
$63.96
+2.1%
$68.00
+6.3%
+57.7%$7.36B$11.74B25.9533,941Positive News
Options Volume
AAL
American Airlines Group
4.107 of 5 stars
$13.37
+0.9%
$16.94
+26.7%
+16.7%$8.82B$54.25B16.71133,300Positive News
ALGT
Allegiant Travel
3.47 of 5 stars
$62.66
+0.6%
$64.33
+2.7%
+57.3%$1.15B$2.58B-3.935,991News Coverage
Positive News
JBLU
JetBlue Airways
2.2509 of 5 stars
$5.35
+2.3%
$5.16
-3.6%
-12.0%$1.95B$9.28B-4.8622,793Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
SKYW
SkyWest
4.1577 of 5 stars
$121.40
-0.9%
$126.75
+4.4%
+44.7%$4.90B$3.53B12.3514,610Positive News
UAL
United Airlines
4.2732 of 5 stars
$105.00
-0.1%
$111.43
+6.1%
+122.0%$33.99B$57.99B10.52107,300Positive News
BA
Boeing
2.9484 of 5 stars
$234.89
-0.5%
$228.90
-2.5%
+42.1%$177.61B$66.52B-14.23172,000Trending News
Analyst Upgrade
DAL
Delta Air Lines
4.6477 of 5 stars
$61.84
-0.2%
$66.21
+7.1%
+41.5%$40.38B$61.93B8.96100,000Trending News
LUV
Southwest Airlines
4.314 of 5 stars
$32.94
-0.1%
$33.06
+0.4%
+6.5%$17.30B$27.47B49.9172,450Positive News
CPA
Copa
4.8392 of 5 stars
$117.32
-2.2%
$154.40
+31.6%
+35.2%$4.83B$3.48B7.637,909Positive News
LTM
LATAM Airlines Group
3.4305 of 5 stars
$50.24
-0.5%
$39.00
-22.4%
+100.7%$15.18B$12.83B12.9138,664

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