AZUL vs. ULCC, FIP, ULH, CVLG, GNK, LIND, SNCY, VLRS, ASC, and SB
Should you be buying Azul stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Azul include Frontier Group (ULCC), FTAI Infrastructure (FIP), Universal Logistics (ULH), Covenant Logistics Group (CVLG), Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK), Lindblad Expeditions (LIND), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (VLRS), Ardmore Shipping (ASC), and Safe Bulkers (SB). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.
Azul vs. Its Competitors
Azul (NYSE:AZUL) and Frontier Group (NASDAQ:ULCC) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Azul has a beta of 1.88, indicating that its share price is 88% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Frontier Group has a beta of 2.67, indicating that its share price is 167% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Azul presently has a consensus target price of $3.32, indicating a potential upside of 564.00%. Frontier Group has a consensus target price of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 77.51%. Given Azul's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Azul is more favorable than Frontier Group.
Frontier Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Azul. Azul is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Frontier Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Azul had 8 more articles in the media than Frontier Group. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Azul and 4 mentions for Frontier Group. Azul's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Frontier Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Azul is being referred to more favorably in the media.
0.8% of Azul shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Azul shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 48.0% of Frontier Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Azul received 330 more outperform votes than Frontier Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.22% of users gave Azul an outperform vote while only 35.07% of users gave Frontier Group an outperform vote.
Frontier Group has a net margin of 1.78% compared to Azul's net margin of -22.28%. Frontier Group's return on equity of 5.53% beat Azul's return on equity.
Summary
Frontier Group beats Azul on 9 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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This page (NYSE:AZUL) was last updated on 6/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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