ACDVF vs. ALK, CPCAY, EJTTF, CPA, ICAGY, AZUL, AAL, SKYW, SAVE, and JBLU
Should you be buying Air Canada stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Air Canada include Alaska Air Group (ALK), Cathay Pacific Airways (CPCAY), easyJet (EJTTF), Copa (CPA), International Consolidated Airlines Group (ICAGY), Azul (AZUL), American Airlines Group (AAL), SkyWest (SKYW), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), and JetBlue Airways (JBLU). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) and Air Canada (OTCMKTS:ACDVF) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Air Canada has a net margin of 2.38% compared to Air Canada's net margin of 1.55%. Air Canada's return on equity of 19.66% beat Alaska Air Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Air Canada had 6 more articles in the media than Alaska Air Group. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Air Canada and 11 mentions for Alaska Air Group. Air Canada's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Alaska Air Group's score of 0.34 indicating that Alaska Air Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alaska Air Group presently has a consensus target price of $65.03, suggesting a potential upside of 75.32%. Air Canada has a consensus target price of $30.00, suggesting a potential upside of 110.38%. Given Alaska Air Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Air Canada is more favorable than Alaska Air Group.
Alaska Air Group received 631 more outperform votes than Air Canada when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.38% of users gave Alaska Air Group an outperform vote while only 65.07% of users gave Air Canada an outperform vote.
80.6% of Alaska Air Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Alaska Air Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Alaska Air Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Air Canada. Air Canada is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alaska Air Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alaska Air Group has a beta of 1.55, indicating that its stock price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Air Canada has a beta of 1.96, indicating that its stock price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Alaska Air Group beats Air Canada on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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