DESP vs. RXO, GBTG, GSL, SNCY, NAT, TNP, ATSG, HTLD, CYRX, and VTOL
Should you be buying Despegar.com stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Despegar.com include RXO (RXO), Global Business Travel Group (GBTG), Global Ship Lease (GSL), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), Nordic American Tankers (NAT), Tsakos Energy Navigation (TNP), Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), Heartland Express (HTLD), Cryoport (CYRX), and Bristow Group (VTOL). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
RXO (NYSE:RXO) and Despegar.com (NYSE:DESP) are both transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.
Despegar.com has lower revenue, but higher earnings than RXO. Despegar.com is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RXO, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, RXO had 15 more articles in the media than Despegar.com. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for RXO and 2 mentions for Despegar.com. Despegar.com's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat RXO's score of 0.92 indicating that RXO is being referred to more favorably in the media.
RXO currently has a consensus target price of $20.23, indicating a potential upside of 3.73%. Despegar.com has a consensus target price of $14.33, indicating a potential upside of 21.11%. Given RXO's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Despegar.com is more favorable than RXO.
92.7% of RXO shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.9% of Despegar.com shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of RXO shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Despegar.com has a net margin of 4.01% compared to Despegar.com's net margin of 0.10%. Despegar.com's return on equity of 6.11% beat RXO's return on equity.
Despegar.com received 248 more outperform votes than RXO when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.76% of users gave Despegar.com an outperform vote while only 21.43% of users gave RXO an outperform vote.
RXO has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Despegar.com has a beta of 2.05, meaning that its stock price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Despegar.com beats RXO on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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