VLRS vs. SKYW, SNCY, GOL, ALGT, HA, SAVE, ULCC, JBLU, AZUL, and CPA
Should you be buying Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación include SkyWest (SKYW), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), Gol Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes (GOL), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Hawaiian (HA), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Frontier Group (ULCC), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Azul (AZUL), and Copa (CPA). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación vs.
SkyWest (NASDAQ:SKYW) and Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (NYSE:VLRS) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
SkyWest has higher revenue and earnings than Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación. Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SkyWest, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SkyWest currently has a consensus target price of $20.75, suggesting a potential upside of 10.37%. Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación has a consensus target price of $19.38, suggesting a potential upside of 74.15%. Given Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación is more favorable than SkyWest.
80.8% of SkyWest shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.0% of Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of SkyWest shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
SkyWest received 92 more outperform votes than Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.78% of users gave SkyWest an outperform vote while only 64.53% of users gave Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación an outperform vote.
SkyWest has a net margin of 2.43% compared to Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación's net margin of -1.05%. SkyWest's return on equity of 5.12% beat Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación's return on equity.
In the previous week, Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación had 1 more articles in the media than SkyWest. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación and 2 mentions for SkyWest. Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación's average media sentiment score of 0.13 beat SkyWest's score of 0.06 indicating that Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SkyWest has a beta of 1.84, suggesting that its stock price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación has a beta of 2.59, suggesting that its stock price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
SkyWest beats Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding VLRS and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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