AZUL vs. SKYW, JBLU, ULCC, CPA, ALGT, SNCY, HA, ALK, AAL, and HUBG
Should you be buying Azul stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Azul include SkyWest (SKYW), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Frontier Group (ULCC), Copa (CPA), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), Hawaiian (HA), Alaska Air Group (ALK), American Airlines Group (AAL), and Hub Group (HUBG). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
SkyWest (NASDAQ:SKYW) and Azul (NYSE:AZUL) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability and dividends.
SkyWest has a net margin of 1.17% compared to SkyWest's net margin of -2.68%. Azul's return on equity of 1.59% beat SkyWest's return on equity.
SkyWest has a beta of 1.95, suggesting that its stock price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Azul has a beta of 1.85, suggesting that its stock price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500.
81.3% of SkyWest shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.8% of Azul shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of SkyWest shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Azul shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, SkyWest had 5 more articles in the media than Azul. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for SkyWest and 16 mentions for Azul. Azul's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat SkyWest's score of 0.11 indicating that SkyWest is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SkyWest has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Azul. Azul is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SkyWest, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SkyWest currently has a consensus target price of $62.25, suggesting a potential downside of 12.75%. Azul has a consensus target price of $12.26, suggesting a potential upside of 119.12%. Given SkyWest's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Azul is more favorable than SkyWest.
SkyWest received 78 more outperform votes than Azul when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.18% of users gave SkyWest an outperform vote while only 65.96% of users gave Azul an outperform vote.
Summary
SkyWest beats Azul on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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