CPA vs. ALK, SKYW, JBLU, ALGT, HA, DAL, UAL, LUV, AAL, and AZUL
Should you be buying Copa stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Copa include Alaska Air Group (ALK), SkyWest (SKYW), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Hawaiian (HA), Delta Air Lines (DAL), United Airlines (UAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), American Airlines Group (AAL), and Azul (AZUL). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Copa (NYSE:CPA) and Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
In the previous week, Copa had 1 more articles in the media than Alaska Air Group. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Copa and 8 mentions for Alaska Air Group. Alaska Air Group's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Copa's score of 0.87 indicating that Alaska Air Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Copa has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Alaska Air Group. Copa 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.
Copa has a beta of 1.48, suggesting that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alaska Air Group has a beta of 1.61, suggesting that its share price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500.
70.1% of Copa shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Alaska Air Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Alaska Air Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Alaska Air Group received 177 more outperform votes than Copa when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.61% of users gave Alaska Air Group an outperform vote while only 65.15% of users gave Copa an outperform vote.
Copa has a net margin of 16.42% compared to Alaska Air Group's net margin of 2.34%. Copa's return on equity of 36.59% beat Alaska Air Group's return on equity.
Copa currently has a consensus price target of $157.17, suggesting a potential upside of 63.15%. Alaska Air Group has a consensus price target of $56.60, suggesting a potential upside of 36.38%. Given Copa's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Copa is more favorable than Alaska Air Group.
Summary
Copa beats Alaska Air Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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