Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) Vs. LUV, RYAAY, UAL, AAL, ZNH, ALK, CEA, AZUL, JBLU, and CPA
Should you be buying Delta Air Lines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Delta Air Lines include Southwest Airlines (LUV), Ryanair (RYAAY), United Airlines (UAL), American Airlines Group (AAL), China Southern Airlines (ZNH), Alaska Air Group (ALK), China Eastern Airlines (CEA), Azul (AZUL), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), and Copa (CPA). These companies are all part of the "airlines" industry.These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Delta Air Lines vs.
Ryanair (NASDAQ:RYAAY) and Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
Ryanair has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Delta Air Lines has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Delta Air Lines received 627 more outperform votes than Ryanair when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 79.15% of users gave Delta Air Lines an outperform vote while only 71.10% of users gave Ryanair an outperform vote.
Delta Air Lines has higher revenue and earnings than Ryanair. Ryanair 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.
43.6% of Ryanair shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.4% of Delta Air Lines shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Delta Air Lines shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Delta Air Lines had 62 more articles in the media than Ryanair. MarketBeat recorded 70 mentions for Delta Air Lines and 8 mentions for Ryanair. Ryanair's average media sentiment score of 0.05 beat Delta Air Lines' score of 0.04 indicating that Ryanair is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Delta Air Lines has a net margin of 0.93% compared to Ryanair's net margin of -25.41%. Ryanair's return on equity of -14.51% beat Delta Air Lines' return on equity.
Ryanair currently has a consensus price target of $122.08, indicating a potential upside of 7.93%. Delta Air Lines has a consensus price target of $51.33, indicating a potential upside of 29.83%. Given Delta Air Lines' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Delta Air Lines is more favorable than Ryanair.
Summary
Delta Air Lines beats Ryanair on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding DAL 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.
Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) vs. Its Competitors
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