AZUL vs. SKYW, JBLU, CPA, ULCC, ALGT, VLRS, ALK, AAL, HUBG, and GLNG
Should you be buying Azul stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Azul include SkyWest (SKYW), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Copa (CPA), Frontier Group (ULCC), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (VLRS), Alaska Air Group (ALK), American Airlines Group (AAL), Hub Group (HUBG), and Golar LNG (GLNG). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
SkyWest (NASDAQ:SKYW) and Azul (NYSE:AZUL) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends and media sentiment.
SkyWest currently has a consensus target price of $62.25, indicating a potential downside of 18.91%. Azul has a consensus target price of $11.86, indicating a potential upside of 101.02%. Given SkyWest's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Azul is more favorable than SkyWest.
SkyWest received 78 more outperform votes than Azul when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.18% of users gave SkyWest an outperform vote while only 65.84% of users gave Azul an outperform vote.
81.3% of SkyWest shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.8% of Azul shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of SkyWest shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Azul shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
SkyWest has a beta of 1.89, suggesting that its share price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Azul has a beta of 1.94, suggesting that its share price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SkyWest has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Azul. Azul is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SkyWest, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Azul had 6 more articles in the media than SkyWest. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Azul and 15 mentions for SkyWest. Azul's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat SkyWest's score of 0.06 indicating that SkyWest is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SkyWest has a net margin of 3.83% compared to SkyWest's net margin of -2.68%. Azul's return on equity of 5.45% beat SkyWest's return on equity.
Summary
SkyWest beats Azul on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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