DAL vs. LUV, UAL, ALK, CPA, SKYW, JBLU, ALGT, HA, RYAAY, and AAL
Should you be buying Delta Air Lines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Delta Air Lines include Southwest Airlines (LUV), United Airlines (UAL), Alaska Air Group (ALK), Copa (CPA), SkyWest (SKYW), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Hawaiian (HA), Ryanair (RYAAY), and American Airlines Group (AAL). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) and Southwest Airlines (NYSE:LUV) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership and valuation.
Delta Air Lines currently has a consensus price target of $60.70, indicating a potential upside of 37.55%. Southwest Airlines has a consensus price target of $28.88, indicating a potential upside of 6.07%. Given Delta Air Lines' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Delta Air Lines is more favorable than Southwest Airlines.
Delta Air Lines has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Southwest Airlines has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Delta Air Lines has a net margin of 7.46% compared to Southwest Airlines' net margin of 1.59%. Delta Air Lines' return on equity of 36.02% beat Southwest Airlines' return on equity.
In the previous week, Southwest Airlines had 27 more articles in the media than Delta Air Lines. MarketBeat recorded 75 mentions for Southwest Airlines and 48 mentions for Delta Air Lines. Southwest Airlines' average media sentiment score of 0.31 beat Delta Air Lines' score of -0.49 indicating that Southwest Airlines is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Delta Air Lines has higher revenue and earnings than Southwest Airlines. Delta Air Lines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Southwest Airlines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
69.9% of Delta Air Lines shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.8% of Southwest Airlines shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Delta Air Lines shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Southwest Airlines shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Delta Air Lines received 98 more outperform votes than Southwest Airlines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.46% of users gave Delta Air Lines an outperform vote while only 69.78% of users gave Southwest Airlines an outperform vote.
Delta Air Lines pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Southwest Airlines pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Delta Air Lines pays out 8.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Southwest Airlines pays out 114.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Delta Air Lines beats Southwest Airlines on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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