VLRS vs. JBLU, AZUL, ALGT, ULCC, HA, SNCY, SAVE, MESA, DAL, and RYAAY
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 JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Azul (AZUL), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Frontier Group (ULCC), Hawaiian (HA), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Mesa Air Group (MESA), Delta Air Lines (DAL), and Ryanair (RYAAY). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ:JBLU) and Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (NYSE:VLRS) are both transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and community ranking.
83.7% of JetBlue Airways shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.3% of Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of JetBlue Airways shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación shares are owned by company 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.
JetBlue Airways has a beta of 1.93, suggesting that its stock price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación has a beta of 2.47, suggesting that its stock price is 147% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación has lower revenue, but higher earnings than JetBlue Airways. JetBlue Airways is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación has a net margin of 3.58% compared to Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación's net margin of -8.79%. JetBlue Airways' return on equity of 49.54% beat Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación's return on equity.
JetBlue Airways received 357 more outperform votes than Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.74% of users gave Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación an outperform vote while only 61.58% of users gave JetBlue Airways an outperform vote.
In the previous week, JetBlue Airways had 8 more articles in the media than Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for JetBlue Airways and 12 mentions for Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación. Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat JetBlue Airways' score of 0.30 indicating that JetBlue Airways is being referred to more favorably in the media.
JetBlue Airways presently has a consensus price target of $5.55, suggesting a potential downside of 10.63%. Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación has a consensus price target of $12.87, suggesting a potential upside of 99.71%. Given JetBlue Airways' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación is more favorable than JetBlue Airways.
Summary
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación beats JetBlue Airways on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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