AZUL vs. CPA, JBLU, ALK, ALGT, ULCC, SAVE, SKYW, VLRS, SNCY, and AAL
Should you be buying Azul stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Azul include Copa (CPA), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Alaska Air Group (ALK), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Frontier Group (ULCC), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), SkyWest (SKYW), Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (VLRS), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), and American Airlines Group (AAL). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Azul vs.
Azul (NYSE:AZUL) and Copa (NYSE:CPA) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation, risk and media sentiment.
Azul currently has a consensus target price of $10.12, indicating a potential downside of 9.71%. Copa has a consensus target price of $123.67, indicating a potential upside of 15.00%. Given Copa's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Copa is more favorable than Azul.
Azul has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Copa has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Copa has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Azul. Azul is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Copa, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Azul had 3 more articles in the media than Copa. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Azul and 11 mentions for Copa. Copa's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Azul's score of 0.24 indicating that Copa is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Copa received 266 more outperform votes than Azul when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.18% of users gave Azul an outperform vote while only 65.70% of users gave Copa an outperform vote.
Copa has a net margin of 13.80% compared to Azul's net margin of -25.93%. Copa's return on equity of 32.04% beat Azul's return on equity.
2.4% of Azul shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.0% of Copa shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Azul shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Copa beats Azul on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding AZUL and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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