UP vs. RKLB, EVEX, KAMN, AIR, ACHR, EH, TGI, KTOS, DCO, and LUNR
Should you be buying Wheels Up Experience stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wheels Up Experience include Rocket Lab USA (RKLB), EVE (EVEX), Kaman (KAMN), AAR (AIR), Archer Aviation (ACHR), EHang (EH), Triumph Group (TGI), Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS), Ducommun (DCO), and Intuitive Machines (LUNR). These companies are all part of the "aerospace" sector.
Rocket Lab USA (NASDAQ:RKLB) and Wheels Up Experience (NYSE:UP) are both small-cap aerospace companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends and institutional ownership.
71.8% of Rocket Lab USA shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.2% of Wheels Up Experience shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.0% of Rocket Lab USA shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Wheels Up Experience shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Rocket Lab USA presently has a consensus target price of $7.46, indicating a potential upside of 102.28%. Given Wheels Up Experience's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Rocket Lab USA is more favorable than Wheels Up Experience.
Rocket Lab USA has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wheels Up Experience has a beta of 2.21, suggesting that its stock price is 121% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Rocket Lab USA and Rocket Lab USA both had 7 articles in the media. Wheels Up Experience's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat Rocket Lab USA's score of 0.16 indicating that Rocket Lab USA is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Rocket Lab USA received 6 more outperform votes than Wheels Up Experience when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 44.00% of users gave Rocket Lab USA an outperform vote while only 43.24% of users gave Wheels Up Experience an outperform vote.
Rocket Lab USA has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Wheels Up Experience. Rocket Lab USA is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wheels Up Experience, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Wheels Up Experience has a net margin of -38.89% compared to Wheels Up Experience's net margin of -74.64%. Wheels Up Experience's return on equity of -30.54% beat Rocket Lab USA's return on equity.
Summary
Rocket Lab USA beats Wheels Up Experience on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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