HA vs. SAVE, MESA, JBLU, ALGT, DAL, UAL, LUV, ALK, CPA, and SKYW
Should you be buying Hawaiian stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hawaiian include Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Mesa Air Group (MESA), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Delta Air Lines (DAL), United Airlines (UAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), Alaska Air Group (ALK), Copa (CPA), and SkyWest (SKYW). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Hawaiian (NASDAQ:HA) and Spirit Airlines (NYSE:SAVE) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Hawaiian received 416 more outperform votes than Spirit Airlines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.36% of users gave Hawaiian an outperform vote while only 31.76% of users gave Spirit Airlines an outperform vote.
Hawaiian currently has a consensus price target of $11.33, suggesting a potential downside of 17.03%. Spirit Airlines has a consensus price target of $3.57, suggesting a potential downside of 2.15%. Given Spirit Airlines' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Spirit Airlines is more favorable than Hawaiian.
Spirit Airlines has a net margin of -9.21% compared to Hawaiian's net margin of -10.90%. Spirit Airlines' return on equity of -34.64% beat Hawaiian's return on equity.
70.2% of Hawaiian shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.7% of Spirit Airlines shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.8% of Hawaiian shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Spirit Airlines shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Hawaiian has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Spirit Airlines. Hawaiian is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spirit Airlines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hawaiian has a beta of 2.37, indicating that its share price is 137% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spirit Airlines has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Hawaiian had 5 more articles in the media than Spirit Airlines. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Hawaiian and 14 mentions for Spirit Airlines. Hawaiian's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Spirit Airlines' score of 0.11 indicating that Hawaiian is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Hawaiian beats Spirit Airlines on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ 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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