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SPCE vs. CLOV, RKLB, VLRS, FIP, GNK, LIND, SNCY, CVLG, ULH, and CLCO

Should you be buying Virgin Galactic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Virgin Galactic include Clover Health Investments (CLOV), Rocket Lab (RKLB), Controladora Vuela Compania de Aviacion (VLRS), FTAI Infrastructure (FIP), Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK), Lindblad Expeditions (LIND), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), Covenant Logistics Group (CVLG), Universal Logistics (ULH), and Cool (CLCO).

Virgin Galactic vs. Its Competitors

Virgin Galactic (NYSE:SPCE) and Clover Health Investments (NASDAQ:CLOV) are related small-cap companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.

Virgin Galactic presently has a consensus price target of $5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 25.16%. Clover Health Investments has a consensus price target of $4.03, suggesting a potential upside of 5.37%. Given Virgin Galactic's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Virgin Galactic is more favorable than Clover Health Investments.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Virgin Galactic
1 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Clover Health Investments
1 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.20

Clover Health Investments has a net margin of -2.68% compared to Virgin Galactic's net margin of -17,828.03%. Clover Health Investments' return on equity of -12.20% beat Virgin Galactic's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Virgin Galactic-17,828.03% -98.94% -32.03%
Clover Health Investments -2.68%-12.20%-6.95%

46.6% of Virgin Galactic shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.8% of Clover Health Investments shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Virgin Galactic shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 24.1% of Clover Health Investments shares are held by 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.

Clover Health Investments has higher revenue and earnings than Virgin Galactic. Clover Health Investments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Virgin Galactic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Virgin Galactic$7.04M32.68-$346.74M-$9.04-0.44
Clover Health Investments$1.37B1.43-$43.01M-$0.08-47.75

Virgin Galactic has a beta of 2.27, indicating that its share price is 127% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clover Health Investments has a beta of 2.1, indicating that its share price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Clover Health Investments had 16 more articles in the media than Virgin Galactic. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Clover Health Investments and 6 mentions for Virgin Galactic. Clover Health Investments' average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Virgin Galactic's score of 0.28 indicating that Clover Health Investments is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Virgin Galactic
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Clover Health Investments
3 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Clover Health Investments beats Virgin Galactic on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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SPCE vs. The Competition

MetricVirgin GalacticAEROSP/DEFENSE IndustryAerospace SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$228.64M$49.50B$29.79B$22.00B
Dividend YieldN/A1.05%0.92%3.57%
P/E Ratio-0.4423.9585.7633.18
Price / Sales32.684.878.0461.51
Price / CashN/A27.2935.5024.54
Price / Book0.416.9110.904.66
Net Income-$346.74M$587.31M$379.66M$1.01B
7 Day Performance-1.84%2.20%3.75%2.24%
1 Month Performance15.30%6.10%5.35%2.10%
1 Year Performance-43.29%50.37%59.21%14.01%

Virgin Galactic Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SPCE
Virgin Galactic
2.3278 of 5 stars
$4.00
+0.6%
$5.00
+25.2%
-44.2%$228.64M$7.04M-0.44800Analyst Forecast
Options Volume
CLOV
Clover Health Investments
1.6997 of 5 stars
$2.92
+7.7%
$4.37
+49.5%
+0.8%$1.50B$1.37B-36.50680Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
Gap Up
RKLB
Rocket Lab
2.1406 of 5 stars
$67.35
+1.6%
$51.75
-23.2%
+476.9%$32.59B$436.21M-149.672,100
VLRS
Controladora Vuela Compania de Aviacion
1.5287 of 5 stars
$6.81
-2.8%
$8.22
+20.8%
-3.1%$793.46M$3.14B-25.206,901News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
FIP
FTAI Infrastructure
1.9791 of 5 stars
$6.10
+7.4%
$12.00
+96.7%
-37.8%$702.05M$331.50M-3.99600Upcoming Earnings
GNK
Genco Shipping & Trading
4.2271 of 5 stars
$15.93
-1.8%
$19.67
+23.5%
+2.5%$684.27M$423.02M46.851,010Analyst Revision
LIND
Lindblad Expeditions
3.8313 of 5 stars
$12.00
+0.8%
$17.00
+41.7%
+29.8%$657.48M$644.73M-40.001,300News Coverage
Analyst Downgrade
SNCY
Sun Country Airlines
3.9425 of 5 stars
$11.83
+4.6%
$18.71
+58.2%
-6.7%$630.78M$1.08B11.163,141Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Downgrade
CVLG
Covenant Logistics Group
3.4988 of 5 stars
$21.57
+0.7%
$33.00
+53.0%
-23.2%$539.68M$1.13B16.474,800News Coverage
Earnings Report
ULH
Universal Logistics
4.3673 of 5 stars
$19.84
+4.2%
$24.00
+21.0%
-59.3%$522.39M$1.85B8.5210,821News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
CLCO
Cool
3.3262 of 5 stars
$9.64
-0.3%
N/A-8.9%$517.40M$338.50M14.171,647News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast

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