ULCC vs. CPA, SKYW, AZUL, JBLU, ALGT, HA, VLRS, SNCY, SAVE, and MESA
Should you be buying Frontier Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Frontier Group include Copa (CPA), SkyWest (SKYW), Azul (AZUL), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Hawaiian (HA), Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (VLRS), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), and Mesa Air Group (MESA). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Frontier Group (NASDAQ:ULCC) and Copa (NYSE:CPA) are both transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
Frontier Group currently has a consensus price target of $7.28, suggesting a potential upside of 33.12%. Copa has a consensus price target of $154.43, suggesting a potential upside of 58.83%. Given Copa's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Copa is more favorable than Frontier Group.
Copa received 603 more outperform votes than Frontier Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.15% of users gave Copa an outperform vote while only 41.24% of users gave Frontier Group an outperform vote.
Frontier Group has a beta of 2.63, indicating that its stock price is 163% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Copa has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Copa has a net margin of 16.42% compared to Frontier Group's net margin of -0.67%. Copa's return on equity of 36.59% beat Frontier Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Frontier Group and Frontier Group both had 9 articles in the media. Copa's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Frontier Group's score of 0.33 indicating that Copa is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
70.1% of Copa shares are owned by institutional investors. 81.5% of Frontier Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Copa has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Frontier Group. Frontier Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Copa, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Copa beats Frontier Group on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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