ALK vs. CPA, SKYW, JBLU, UAL, LUV, AZUL, AAL, ULCC, R, and AL
Should you be buying Alaska Air Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alaska Air Group include Copa (CPA), SkyWest (SKYW), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), United Airlines (UAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), Azul (AZUL), American Airlines Group (AAL), Frontier Group (ULCC), Ryder System (R), and Air Lease (AL). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) and Copa (NYSE:CPA) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.
81.9% of Alaska Air Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.1% of Copa shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Alaska Air Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Alaska Air Group received 181 more outperform votes than Copa when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.58% of users gave Alaska Air Group an outperform vote while only 64.97% of users gave Copa an outperform vote.
Alaska Air Group pays an annual dividend of $1.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Copa pays an annual dividend of $6.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. Alaska Air Group pays out 80.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Copa pays out 50.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Copa is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Alaska Air Group has a beta of 1.63, indicating that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Copa has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Copa has a net margin of 14.97% compared to Alaska Air Group's net margin of 2.34%. Copa's return on equity of 37.03% beat Alaska Air Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Alaska Air Group had 53 more articles in the media than Copa. MarketBeat recorded 57 mentions for Alaska Air Group and 4 mentions for Copa. Copa's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Alaska Air Group's score of 0.34 indicating that Copa is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Alaska Air Group currently has a consensus price target of $57.85, suggesting a potential upside of 30.80%. Copa has a consensus price target of $146.33, suggesting a potential upside of 49.38%. Given Copa's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Copa is more favorable than Alaska Air Group.
Copa has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Alaska Air Group. Copa 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.
Summary
Copa beats Alaska Air Group on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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