HA vs. SAVE, MESA, JBLU, ALGT, DAL, UAL, LUV, ALK, CPA, and SKYW
Should you be buying Hawaiian stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hawaiian include Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Mesa Air Group (MESA), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Delta Air Lines (DAL), United Airlines (UAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), Alaska Air Group (ALK), Copa (CPA), and SkyWest (SKYW). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Spirit Airlines (NYSE:SAVE) and Hawaiian (NASDAQ:HA) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Hawaiian has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Spirit Airlines. Hawaiian is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spirit Airlines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Spirit Airlines has a beta of 1.41, meaning that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hawaiian has a beta of 2.37, meaning that its stock price is 137% more volatile than the S&P 500.
58.7% of Spirit Airlines shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.2% of Hawaiian shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Spirit Airlines shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Hawaiian 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.
In the previous week, Hawaiian had 3 more articles in the media than Spirit Airlines. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Hawaiian and 21 mentions for Spirit Airlines. Spirit Airlines' average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Hawaiian's score of 0.04 indicating that Hawaiian is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Spirit Airlines has a net margin of -9.21% compared to Spirit Airlines' net margin of -10.90%. Hawaiian's return on equity of -34.64% beat Spirit Airlines' return on equity.
Spirit Airlines presently has a consensus target price of $3.57, suggesting a potential downside of 2.95%. Hawaiian has a consensus target price of $11.33, suggesting a potential downside of 16.24%. Given Hawaiian's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Spirit Airlines is more favorable than Hawaiian.
Hawaiian received 416 more outperform votes than Spirit Airlines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.36% of users gave Hawaiian an outperform vote while only 31.76% of users gave Spirit Airlines an outperform vote.
Summary
Hawaiian beats Spirit Airlines on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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