CPA vs. ALK, JBLU, ALGT, SKYW, UAL, AZUL, ULCC, SAVE, VLRS, and AAL
Should you be buying Copa stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Copa include Alaska Air Group (ALK), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), SkyWest (SKYW), United Airlines (UAL), Azul (AZUL), Frontier Group (ULCC), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (VLRS), and American Airlines Group (AAL). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Copa vs.
Copa (NYSE:CPA) and Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
Alaska Air Group received 176 more outperform votes than Copa when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.82% of users gave Alaska Air Group an outperform vote while only 65.70% of users gave Copa an outperform vote.
Copa has a net margin of 13.80% compared to Alaska Air Group's net margin of 0.58%. Copa's return on equity of 32.04% beat Alaska Air Group's return on equity.
Copa has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alaska Air Group has a beta of 1.52, indicating that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.
76.0% of Copa shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.0% of Alaska Air Group shares are held by institutional investors. 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 company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Copa had 4 more articles in the media than Alaska Air Group. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Copa and 7 mentions for Alaska Air Group. Copa's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Alaska Air Group's score of 0.48 indicating that Copa is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
Copa currently has a consensus price target of $123.67, indicating a potential upside of 15.00%. Alaska Air Group has a consensus price target of $63.86, indicating a potential upside of 38.53%. Given Alaska Air Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Alaska Air Group is more favorable than Copa.
Summary
Copa and Alaska Air Group tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding CPA 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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