CPA vs. ALK, SKYW, JBLU, ALGT, DAL, UAL, LUV, AAL, ULCC, and SNCY
Should you be buying Copa stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Copa include Alaska Air Group (ALK), SkyWest (SKYW), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Delta Air Lines (DAL), United Airlines (UAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), American Airlines Group (AAL), Frontier Group (ULCC), and Sun Country Airlines (SNCY). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Copa vs. Its Competitors
Copa (NYSE:CPA) and Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Copa has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alaska Air Group has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
70.1% of Copa shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Alaska Air Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Alaska Air Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Copa has a net margin of 17.67% compared to Alaska Air Group's net margin of 3.37%. Copa's return on equity of 26.70% beat Alaska Air Group's return on equity.
Alaska Air Group received 196 more outperform votes than Copa when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.21% of users gave Alaska Air Group an outperform vote while only 65.04% of users gave Copa an outperform vote.
Copa pays an annual dividend of $6.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. Alaska Air Group pays an annual dividend of $1.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Copa pays out 44.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alaska Air Group pays out 54.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Copa has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Copa is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Copa presently has a consensus price target of $153.00, indicating a potential upside of 43.30%. Alaska Air Group has a consensus price target of $66.83, indicating a potential upside of 34.77%. Given Copa's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Copa is more favorable than Alaska Air Group.
Copa has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
In the previous week, Alaska Air Group had 7 more articles in the media than Copa. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Alaska Air Group and 5 mentions for Copa. Copa's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Alaska Air Group's score of 0.82 indicating that Copa is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Copa beats Alaska Air Group on 12 of the 21 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:CPA) was last updated on 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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