CPA vs. ALK, SKYW, JBLU, ALGT, HA, DAL, LUV, UAL, AAL, and AZUL
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), Hawaiian (HA), Delta Air Lines (DAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), United Airlines (UAL), American Airlines Group (AAL), and Azul (AZUL). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) and Copa (NYSE:CPA) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and media sentiment.
Copa has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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 has a net margin of 16.42% compared to Copa's net margin of 2.14%. Alaska Air Group's return on equity of 36.59% beat Copa's return on equity.
In the previous week, Alaska Air Group had 5 more articles in the media than Copa. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Alaska Air Group and 21 mentions for Copa. Copa's average media sentiment score of 0.02 beat Alaska Air Group's score of -0.22 indicating that Alaska Air Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alaska Air Group has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Copa has a beta of 1.47, indicating that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alaska Air Group received 178 more outperform votes than Copa when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.60% of users gave Alaska Air Group an outperform vote while only 65.12% of users gave Copa an outperform vote.
81.9% of Alaska Air Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.1% of Copa shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Alaska Air Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Alaska Air Group currently has a consensus price target of $54.60, suggesting a potential upside of 38.40%. Copa has a consensus price target of $157.60, suggesting a potential upside of 72.54%. Given Alaska Air Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Copa is more favorable than Alaska Air Group.
Summary
Alaska Air Group beats Copa on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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