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Delta Air Lines (DAL) Competitors

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DAL vs. UAL, LUV, ALK, CPA, SKYW, JBLU, ALGT, RYAAY, AAL, and ULCC

Should you be buying Delta Air Lines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Delta Air Lines include United Airlines (UAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), Alaska Air Group (ALK), Copa (CPA), SkyWest (SKYW), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Ryanair (RYAAY), American Airlines Group (AAL), and Frontier Group (ULCC). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.

Delta Air Lines vs.

Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) and United Airlines (NASDAQ:UAL) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking and profitability.

Delta Air Lines currently has a consensus target price of $62.08, indicating a potential upside of 29.34%. United Airlines has a consensus target price of $102.33, indicating a potential upside of 38.66%. Given United Airlines' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe United Airlines is more favorable than Delta Air Lines.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Delta Air Lines
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
10 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
United Airlines
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
14 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.06

Delta Air Lines has higher revenue and earnings than United Airlines. United Airlines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Delta Air Lines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Delta Air Lines$61.94B0.51$3.46B$5.648.51
United Airlines$57.74B0.42$3.15B$10.976.73

Delta Air Lines received 251 more outperform votes than United Airlines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.55% of users gave Delta Air Lines an outperform vote while only 66.75% of users gave United Airlines an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Delta Air LinesOutperform Votes
1263
76.55%
Underperform Votes
387
23.45%
United AirlinesOutperform Votes
1012
66.75%
Underperform Votes
504
33.25%

Delta Air Lines has a beta of 1.46, meaning that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, United Airlines has a beta of 1.39, meaning that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.

69.9% of Delta Air Lines shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.7% of United Airlines shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Delta Air Lines shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of United Airlines shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, United Airlines had 2 more articles in the media than Delta Air Lines. MarketBeat recorded 39 mentions for United Airlines and 37 mentions for Delta Air Lines. United Airlines' average media sentiment score of 1.29 beat Delta Air Lines' score of 1.11 indicating that United Airlines is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Delta Air Lines
24 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
8 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
United Airlines
25 Very Positive mention(s)
6 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Delta Air Lines has a net margin of 5.61% compared to United Airlines' net margin of 5.52%. United Airlines' return on equity of 32.26% beat Delta Air Lines' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Delta Air Lines5.61% 30.41% 5.30%
United Airlines 5.52%32.26%4.84%

Summary

Delta Air Lines beats United Airlines on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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DAL vs. The Competition

MetricDelta Air LinesAir transportation, scheduled IndustryTransportation SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$31.44B$2.18T$285.04B$19.29B
Dividend Yield1.19%3.15%3.77%3.83%
P/E Ratio9.038.4313.7234.47
Price / Sales0.51194.40264.2034.86
Price / Cash6.337.5211.5417.51
Price / Book2.031.861.904.67
Net Income$3.46B$805.72M$512.32M$1.02B
7 Day Performance-4.55%-0.02%-2.37%-2.17%
1 Month Performance18.96%13.36%9.52%7.01%
1 Year Performance-6.93%-6.75%-9.76%3.59%

Delta Air Lines Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DAL
Delta Air Lines
4.9221 of 5 stars
$48.58
+0.6%
$62.08
+27.8%
-7.6%$31.72B$61.94B9.1195,000Positive News
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UAL
United Airlines
4.9016 of 5 stars
$78.66
+0.9%
$102.33
+30.1%
+38.3%$25.69B$57.74B8.3492,800News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
Analyst Revision
LUV
Southwest Airlines
3.4004 of 5 stars
$32.58
-0.3%
$30.59
-6.1%
+13.5%$18.57B$27.58B45.2566,700Trending News
Analyst Revision
ALK
Alaska Air Group
4.8713 of 5 stars
$53.19
-0.9%
$66.83
+25.7%
+13.9%$6.53B$12.64B17.4425,500Positive News
Insider Trade
CPA
Copa
4.5474 of 5 stars
$104.21
+1.3%
$150.83
+44.7%
-2.9%$4.29B$3.45B7.166,130Analyst Revision
SKYW
SkyWest
3.9602 of 5 stars
$101.67
-1.0%
$120.67
+18.7%
+29.3%$4.11B$3.67B13.0813,121
JBLU
JetBlue Airways
2.48 of 5 stars
$4.93
-2.8%
$5.16
+4.6%
-14.5%$1.75B$9.21B-2.1120,000
ALGT
Allegiant Travel
4.0411 of 5 stars
$54.93
-2.1%
$63.70
+16.0%
+4.9%$1.00B$2.56B-4.115,320Analyst Forecast
RYAAY
Ryanair
4.2496 of 5 stars
$52.97
+5.9%
$147.00
+177.5%
-54.8%$28.18B$13.82B16.2419,100Analyst Upgrade
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High Trading Volume
AAL
American Airlines Group
4.7731 of 5 stars
$11.83
-0.3%
$15.68
+32.6%
-19.9%$7.80B$54.19B10.38129,700Analyst Revision
ULCC
Frontier Group
4.201 of 5 stars
$3.98
-4.6%
$6.00
+50.8%
-34.0%$906.51M$3.82B11.066,470Analyst Forecast

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This page (NYSE:DAL) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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