RYAAY vs. DAL, UAL, LUV, AAL, WAB, ODFL, JBHT, EXPD, UHAL, and ZTO
Should you be buying Ryanair stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ryanair include Delta Air Lines (DAL), United Airlines (UAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), American Airlines Group (AAL), Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies (WAB), Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), J.B. Hunt Transport Services (JBHT), Expeditors International of Washington (EXPD), U-Haul (UHAL), and ZTO Express (Cayman) (ZTO). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) and Ryanair (NASDAQ:RYAAY) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, risk, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and profitability.
Delta Air Lines presently has a consensus target price of $59.25, indicating a potential upside of 12.44%. Ryanair has a consensus target price of $158.50, indicating a potential upside of 26.20%. Given Delta Air Lines' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ryanair is more favorable than Delta Air Lines.
Delta Air Lines received 638 more outperform votes than Ryanair when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.38% of users gave Delta Air Lines an outperform vote while only 69.86% of users gave Ryanair an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Delta Air Lines had 23 more articles in the media than Ryanair. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Delta Air Lines and 3 mentions for Ryanair. Delta Air Lines' average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat Ryanair's score of 0.75 indicating that Ryanair is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Delta Air Lines pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Ryanair pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Delta Air Lines pays out 5.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ryanair pays out 9.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Delta Air Lines is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
69.9% of Delta Air Lines shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.7% of Ryanair shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Delta Air Lines shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Delta Air Lines has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ryanair has a beta of 1.59, meaning that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ryanair has a net margin of 15.64% compared to Ryanair's net margin of 8.48%. Ryanair's return on equity of 41.89% beat Delta Air Lines' return on equity.
Delta Air Lines has higher revenue and earnings than Ryanair. Delta Air Lines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ryanair, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Delta Air Lines beats Ryanair on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding RYAAY and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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