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.
SkyWest (NASDAQ:SKYW) and Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.
81.3% of SkyWest shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Alaska Air Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of SkyWest shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Alaska Air Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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.
SkyWest has a net margin of 3.83% compared to Alaska Air Group's net margin of 2.34%. Alaska Air Group's return on equity of 13.54% beat SkyWest's return on equity.
SkyWest currently has a consensus target price of $62.25, suggesting a potential downside of 16.63%. Alaska Air Group has a consensus target price of $56.60, suggesting a potential upside of 34.71%. Given Alaska Air Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Alaska Air Group is more favorable than SkyWest.
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.
SkyWest has a beta of 1.89, indicating that its stock price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alaska Air Group has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Alaska Air Group had 1 more articles in the media than SkyWest. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Alaska Air Group and 5 mentions for SkyWest. Alaska Air Group's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat SkyWest's score of 0.87 indicating that Alaska Air Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Alaska Air Group beats SkyWest on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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