ALK vs. LUV, UAL, CPA, SKYW, JBLU, ALGT, HA, DAL, AAL, and AZUL
Should you be buying Alaska Air Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alaska Air Group include Southwest Airlines (LUV), United Airlines (UAL), Copa (CPA), SkyWest (SKYW), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Hawaiian (HA), Delta Air Lines (DAL), American Airlines Group (AAL), and Azul (AZUL). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Southwest Airlines (NYSE:LUV) and Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Southwest Airlines received 314 more outperform votes than Alaska Air Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.78% of users gave Southwest Airlines an outperform vote while only 69.60% of users gave Alaska Air Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Southwest Airlines had 35 more articles in the media than Alaska Air Group. MarketBeat recorded 72 mentions for Southwest Airlines and 37 mentions for Alaska Air Group. Alaska Air Group's average media sentiment score of 0.31 beat Southwest Airlines' score of 0.02 indicating that Southwest Airlines is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Southwest Airlines currently has a consensus price target of $28.88, suggesting a potential upside of 5.57%. Alaska Air Group has a consensus price target of $54.60, suggesting a potential upside of 38.61%. Given Southwest Airlines' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Alaska Air Group is more favorable than Southwest Airlines.
Southwest Airlines has higher revenue and earnings than Alaska Air Group. Alaska Air Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Southwest Airlines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Southwest Airlines has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alaska Air Group has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
80.8% of Southwest Airlines shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Alaska Air Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Southwest Airlines shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Alaska Air Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Alaska Air Group has a net margin of 2.14% compared to Alaska Air Group's net margin of 1.59%. Southwest Airlines' return on equity of 11.97% beat Alaska Air Group's return on equity.
Summary
Alaska Air Group beats Southwest Airlines on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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