CPA vs. ALK, SKYW, JBLU, ALGT, HA, DAL, UAL, LUV, AAL, and AZUL
Should you be buying Copa stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Copa include Alaska Air Group (ALK), SkyWest (SKYW), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Hawaiian (HA), Delta Air Lines (DAL), United Airlines (UAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), American Airlines Group (AAL), and Azul (AZUL). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Copa (NYSE:CPA) and Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, risk and media sentiment.
Alaska Air Group received 177 more outperform votes than Copa when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.61% of users gave Alaska Air Group an outperform vote while only 65.15% of users gave Copa an outperform vote.
Copa has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its stock price is 40% 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.
Copa has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Alaska Air Group. Copa is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alaska Air Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Copa had 2 more articles in the media than Alaska Air Group. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Copa and 7 mentions for Alaska Air Group. Alaska Air Group's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Copa's score of 0.65 indicating that Alaska Air Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Copa has a net margin of 16.42% compared to Alaska Air Group's net margin of 2.34%. Copa's return on equity of 36.59% beat Alaska Air Group's return on equity.
70.1% of Copa shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Alaska Air Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Alaska Air Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Copa presently has a consensus target price of $154.43, indicating a potential upside of 58.83%. Alaska Air Group has a consensus target price of $56.60, indicating a potential upside of 34.71%. Given Copa's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Copa is more favorable than Alaska Air Group.
Summary
Copa beats Alaska Air Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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