VLRS vs. HA, SNCY, SAVE, ALGT, ULCC, JBLU, ASC, CVLG, TK, and FWRD
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 Hawaiian (HA), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Frontier Group (ULCC), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Ardmore Shipping (ASC), Covenant Logistics Group (CVLG), Teekay (TK), and Forward Air (FWRD). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Hawaiian (NASDAQ:HA) and Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (NYSE:VLRS) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and media sentiment.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación has a net margin of 0.25% compared to Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación's net margin of -9.59%. Hawaiian's return on equity of 4.51% beat Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación's return on equity.
70.2% of Hawaiian shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.3% of Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of Hawaiian shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación has higher revenue and earnings than Hawaiian. Hawaiian 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.
Hawaiian has a beta of 2.39, suggesting that its share price is 139% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación has a beta of 2.55, suggesting that its share price is 155% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hawaiian presently has a consensus target price of $8.00, suggesting a potential downside of 38.32%. Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación has a consensus target price of $14.22, suggesting a potential upside of 77.31%. Given Hawaiian's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación is more favorable than Hawaiian.
In the previous week, Hawaiian had 11 more articles in the media than Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Hawaiian and 6 mentions for Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación. Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Hawaiian's score of 0.12 indicating that Hawaiian is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hawaiian received 80 more outperform votes than Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.36% of users gave Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación an outperform vote while only 52.43% of users gave Hawaiian an outperform vote.
Summary
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación beats Hawaiian on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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