DESP vs. GBTG, INSW, UP, BWLP, ZIM, DHT, AZUL, LPG, NMM, and NVGS
Should you be buying Despegar.com stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Despegar.com include Global Business Travel Group (GBTG), International Seaways (INSW), Wheels Up Experience (UP), BW LPG (BWLP), ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM), DHT (DHT), Azul (AZUL), Dorian LPG (LPG), Navios Maritime Partners (NMM), and Navigator (NVGS). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.
Despegar.com (NYSE:DESP) and Global Business Travel Group (NYSE:GBTG) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, risk, earnings, dividends and valuation.
Despegar.com has a beta of 2.01, indicating that its share price is 101% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Global Business Travel Group has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Despegar.com currently has a consensus price target of $16.00, indicating a potential upside of 36.64%. Global Business Travel Group has a consensus price target of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 33.73%. Given Despegar.com's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Despegar.com is more favorable than Global Business Travel Group.
Despegar.com has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Global Business Travel Group.
Despegar.com received 252 more outperform votes than Global Business Travel Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.66% of users gave Despegar.com an outperform vote while only 53.85% of users gave Global Business Travel Group an outperform vote.
Despegar.com has a net margin of 5.41% compared to Global Business Travel Group's net margin of -3.40%. Global Business Travel Group's return on equity of -4.82% beat Despegar.com's return on equity.
67.9% of Despegar.com shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.5% of Global Business Travel Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Despegar.com shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Global Business Travel Group 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, Despegar.com had 1 more articles in the media than Global Business Travel Group. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Despegar.com and 10 mentions for Global Business Travel Group. Despegar.com's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat Global Business Travel Group's score of -0.02 indicating that Despegar.com is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Despegar.com beats Global Business Travel Group on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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