AZUL vs. AAL, ALK, CPA, SKYW, JBLU, ULCC, ALGT, HA, VLRS, and SNCY
Should you be buying Azul stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Azul include American Airlines Group (AAL), Alaska Air Group (ALK), Copa (CPA), SkyWest (SKYW), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Frontier Group (ULCC), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Hawaiian (HA), Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (VLRS), and Sun Country Airlines (SNCY). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Azul (NYSE:AZUL) and American Airlines Group (NASDAQ:AAL) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.
American Airlines Group has higher revenue and earnings than Azul. Azul is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Airlines Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Azul has a beta of 1.94, indicating that its share price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Airlines Group has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, American Airlines Group had 64 more articles in the media than Azul. MarketBeat recorded 74 mentions for American Airlines Group and 10 mentions for Azul. Azul's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat American Airlines Group's score of -0.13 indicating that Azul is being referred to more favorably in the media.
0.8% of Azul shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.4% of American Airlines Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Azul shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of American Airlines Group shares are owned 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.
Azul currently has a consensus target price of $11.12, indicating a potential upside of 103.98%. American Airlines Group has a consensus target price of $16.65, indicating a potential upside of 44.78%. Given Azul's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Azul is more favorable than American Airlines Group.
American Airlines Group has a net margin of 0.94% compared to Azul's net margin of -6.90%. Azul's return on equity of 0.00% beat American Airlines Group's return on equity.
American Airlines Group received 526 more outperform votes than Azul when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.98% of users gave American Airlines Group an outperform vote while only 65.72% of users gave Azul an outperform vote.
Summary
American Airlines Group beats Azul on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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