SPCE vs. DESP, LIND, MODV, MOND, YTRA, ASTR, YGMZ, BWLP, TOUR, and BKNG
Should you be buying Virgin Galactic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Virgin Galactic include Despegar.com (DESP), Lindblad Expeditions (LIND), ModivCare (MODV), Mondee (MOND), Yatra Online (YTRA), Astra Space (ASTR), MingZhu Logistics (YGMZ), BW LPG (BWLP), Tuniu (TOUR), and Booking (BKNG). These companies are all part of the "transportation services" industry.
Despegar.com (NYSE:DESP) and Virgin Galactic (NYSE:SPCE) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Despegar.com has higher revenue and earnings than Virgin Galactic.
Despegar.com has a net margin of 5.41% compared to Despegar.com's net margin of -5,301.61%. Virgin Galactic's return on equity of -44.06% beat Despegar.com's return on equity.
67.9% of Despegar.com shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.6% of Virgin Galactic shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Despegar.com shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Virgin Galactic shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Despegar.com currently has a consensus price target of $15.88, indicating a potential upside of 5.13%. Virgin Galactic has a consensus price target of $2.26, indicating a potential upside of 161.86%. Given Despegar.com's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Virgin Galactic is more favorable than Despegar.com.
Despegar.com has a beta of 2.03, indicating that its share price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Virgin Galactic has a beta of 1.71, indicating that its share price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Virgin Galactic had 7 more articles in the media than Despegar.com. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Virgin Galactic and 8 mentions for Despegar.com. Virgin Galactic's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Despegar.com's score of 0.18 indicating that Despegar.com is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Despegar.com received 118 more outperform votes than Virgin Galactic when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.89% of users gave Virgin Galactic an outperform vote while only 60.80% of users gave Despegar.com an outperform vote.
Summary
Despegar.com beats Virgin Galactic on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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