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NYSE:SAVE

Spirit Airlines (SAVE) Competitors

$14.80
+0.25 (+1.72%)
(As of 05/26/2023 07:00 PM ET)
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Today's Range
$14.50
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$14.87
50-Day Range
$14.55
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$17.62
52-Week Range
$14.41
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$25.67
Volume
1.36 million shs
Average Volume
1.95 million shs
Market Capitalization
$1.62 billion
P/E Ratio
N/A
Dividend Yield
N/A
Price Target
$24.14
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SAVE vs. ULCC, ALGT, SKYW, VLRS, JBLU, SNCY, GOL, HA, AZUL, and CPA

Should you be buying Spirit Airlines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Spirit Airlines include Frontier Group (ULCC), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), SkyWest (SKYW), Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (VLRS), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), Gol Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes (GOL), Hawaiian (HA), Azul (AZUL), and Copa (CPA). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.

Spirit Airlines vs.

Spirit Airlines (NYSE:SAVE) and Frontier Group (NASDAQ:ULCC) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.

In the previous week, Spirit Airlines had 9 more articles in the media than Frontier Group. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Spirit Airlines and 6 mentions for Frontier Group. Spirit Airlines' average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat Frontier Group's score of -0.23 indicating that Spirit Airlines is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Spirit Airlines
3 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
4 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Frontier Group
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Frontier Group received 7 more outperform votes than Spirit Airlines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 49.28% of users gave Frontier Group an outperform vote while only 45.76% of users gave Spirit Airlines an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Spirit AirlinesOutperform Votes
27
45.76%
Underperform Votes
32
54.24%
Frontier GroupOutperform Votes
34
49.28%
Underperform Votes
35
50.72%

67.7% of Spirit Airlines shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Spirit Airlines shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 83.2% of Frontier Group shares are owned 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.

Frontier Group has a net margin of 1.99% compared to Spirit Airlines' net margin of -8.50%. Frontier Group's return on equity of 16.92% beat Spirit Airlines' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Spirit Airlines -8.50% -6.24% -1.17%
Frontier Group 1.99% 16.92% 1.81%

Spirit Airlines presently has a consensus price target of $24.14, indicating a potential upside of 63.13%. Frontier Group has a consensus price target of $16.42, indicating a potential upside of 100.20%. Given Frontier Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Frontier Group is more favorable than Spirit Airlines.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Spirit Airlines
1 Sell rating(s)
8 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Frontier Group
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
9 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75

Frontier Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Spirit Airlines. Spirit Airlines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Frontier Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Spirit Airlines$5.07 billion0.32-$554.15 million-$4.25-3.48
Frontier Group$3.33 billion0.54-$37 million$0.3126.45

Spirit Airlines has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Frontier Group has a beta of 1.99, indicating that its share price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Frontier Group beats Spirit Airlines 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 SAVE and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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.
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SAVE vs. The Competition

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MetricSpirit AirlinesAir transportation, scheduled IndustryTransportation SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.62B$11.49B$7.62B$14.34B
Dividend YieldN/A2.74%8.24%4.07%
P/E Ratio-3.4812.6822.4417.03
Price / Sales0.321.2812.058.93
Price / Cash10.669.1012.7715.16
Price / Book1.022.094.476.84
Net Income-$554.15M-$171.94M$720.86M$891.72M
7 Day Performance-1.40%0.84%-1.32%-1.22%
1 Month Performance-13.45%3.29%-1.74%-2.03%
1 Year Performance-27.80%-11.23%-2.72%-10.36%

Spirit Airlines Competitors List

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CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ULCC
Frontier Group
2.4131 of 5 stars		$7.96
+0.5%		$16.42
+106.2%		-21.6%$1.74B$3.33B25.686,470Short Interest ↑
ALGT
Allegiant Travel
1.8277 of 5 stars		$100.56
+1.1%		$104.42
+3.8%		-34.1%$1.85B$2.30B27.785,315Short Interest ↑
SKYW
SkyWest
1.3856 of 5 stars		$28.63
+0.4%		$20.75
-27.5%		+14.4%$1.27B$3.00B44.0513,582
VLRS
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación
2.3653 of 5 stars		$12.63
-1.6%		$19.90
+57.6%		-10.6%$1.11B$2.85B-25.787,364
JBLU
JetBlue Airways
2.2023 of 5 stars		$6.88
-0.9%		$8.65
+25.7%		-37.0%$2.26B$9.16B-7.5620,901Short Interest ↓
SNCY
Sun Country Airlines
2.4884 of 5 stars		$17.48
-0.5%		$23.78
+36.0%		-21.1%$983.08M$894.44M20.092,510
GOL
Gol Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes
2.3863 of 5 stars		$3.11
-4.6%		$4.77
+53.3%		-47.9%$651.02M$2.94B-0.9714,816Short Interest ↓
HA
Hawaiian
1.8952 of 5 stars		$8.30
+2.0%		$14.00
+68.7%		-55.5%$427.87M$2.64B-2.197,108Short Interest ↓
AZUL
Azul
1.2282 of 5 stars		$8.95
-3.8%		$9.54
+6.6%		-27.8%$3.77B$3.09B-1.5414,247Short Interest ↓
CPA
Copa
1.9847 of 5 stars		$104.15
+0.4%		$123.67
+18.7%		+52.6%$4.11B$2.97B9.277,265Analyst Revision

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