MESA vs. SAVE, HA, ALGT, DAL, RYAAY, UAL, LUV, AAL, ALK, and CPA
Should you be buying Mesa Air Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mesa Air Group include Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Hawaiian (HA), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Delta Air Lines (DAL), Ryanair (RYAAY), United Airlines (UAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), American Airlines Group (AAL), Alaska Air Group (ALK), and Copa (CPA). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Mesa Air Group (NASDAQ:MESA) and Spirit Airlines (NYSE:SAVE) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment and community ranking.
Mesa Air Group has a beta of 2.91, indicating that its share price is 191% 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.
Mesa Air Group received 165 more outperform votes than Spirit Airlines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.14% of users gave Mesa Air Group an outperform vote while only 31.76% of users gave Spirit Airlines an outperform vote.
Spirit Airlines has a consensus price target of $3.57, indicating a potential downside of 2.15%. Given Spirit Airlines' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Spirit Airlines is more favorable than Mesa Air Group.
Mesa Air Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Spirit Airlines. Spirit Airlines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mesa Air Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Spirit Airlines has a net margin of -9.21% compared to Mesa Air Group's net margin of -24.12%. Mesa Air Group's return on equity of -31.58% beat Spirit Airlines' return on equity.
13.3% of Mesa Air Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.7% of Spirit Airlines shares are held by institutional investors. 3.9% of Mesa Air Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Spirit Airlines shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Spirit Airlines had 13 more articles in the media than Mesa Air Group. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Spirit Airlines and 1 mentions for Mesa Air Group. Mesa Air Group's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Spirit Airlines' score of 0.11 indicating that Mesa Air Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Mesa Air Group beats Spirit Airlines on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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