SPCE vs. DESP, LIND, MODV, MOND, YTRA, ASTR, YGMZ, BWLP, TOUR, and BKNG
Should you be buying Virgin Galactic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Virgin Galactic include Despegar.com (DESP), Lindblad Expeditions (LIND), ModivCare (MODV), Mondee (MOND), Yatra Online (YTRA), Astra Space (ASTR), MingZhu Logistics (YGMZ), BW LPG (BWLP), Tuniu (TOUR), and Booking (BKNG). These companies are all part of the "transportation services" industry.
Virgin Galactic (NYSE:SPCE) and Despegar.com (NYSE:DESP) are both small-cap aerospace companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and community ranking.
Despegar.com received 118 more outperform votes than Virgin Galactic when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.89% of users gave Virgin Galactic an outperform vote while only 60.80% of users gave Despegar.com an outperform vote.
46.6% of Virgin Galactic shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.9% of Despegar.com shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Virgin Galactic shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Despegar.com shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Despegar.com has a net margin of 5.41% compared to Virgin Galactic's net margin of -5,301.61%. Despegar.com's return on equity of -44.06% beat Virgin Galactic's return on equity.
Virgin Galactic presently has a consensus target price of $2.26, suggesting a potential upside of 161.86%. Despegar.com has a consensus target price of $15.88, suggesting a potential upside of 5.13%. Given Virgin Galactic's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Virgin Galactic is more favorable than Despegar.com.
In the previous week, Virgin Galactic had 8 more articles in the media than Despegar.com. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Virgin Galactic and 8 mentions for Despegar.com. Despegar.com's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Virgin Galactic's score of 0.29 indicating that Despegar.com is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Virgin Galactic has a beta of 1.71, indicating that its share price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Despegar.com has a beta of 2.03, indicating that its share price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Despegar.com has higher revenue and earnings than Virgin Galactic.
Summary
Despegar.com beats Virgin Galactic on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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