SKYW vs. ALK, CPA, JBLU, ALGT, HA, SAVE, MESA, DAL, UAL, and LUV
Should you be buying SkyWest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SkyWest include Alaska Air Group (ALK), Copa (CPA), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Hawaiian (HA), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Mesa Air Group (MESA), Delta Air Lines (DAL), United Airlines (UAL), and Southwest Airlines (LUV). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) and SkyWest (NASDAQ:SKYW) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, profitability, earnings, community ranking, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Alaska Air Group has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SkyWest has a beta of 1.89, indicating that its share price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SkyWest has a net margin of 3.83% compared to SkyWest's net margin of 2.34%. SkyWest's return on equity of 13.54% beat Alaska Air Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, SkyWest had 11 more articles in the media than Alaska Air Group. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for SkyWest and 8 mentions for Alaska Air Group. SkyWest's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Alaska Air Group's score of 0.69 indicating that Alaska Air Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alaska Air Group received 370 more outperform votes than SkyWest when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.61% of users gave Alaska Air Group an outperform vote while only 68.18% of users gave SkyWest an outperform vote.
81.9% of Alaska Air Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.3% of SkyWest shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Alaska Air Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of SkyWest shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Alaska Air Group currently has a consensus price target of $56.60, indicating a potential upside of 35.61%. SkyWest has a consensus price target of $62.25, indicating a potential downside of 13.84%. Given SkyWest's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Alaska Air Group is more favorable than SkyWest.
Alaska Air Group has higher revenue and earnings than SkyWest. Alaska Air Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SkyWest, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Alaska Air Group beats SkyWest on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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