CPA vs. SKYW, ALK, JBLU, ALGT, AZUL, ULCC, AAL, STNG, EURN, and SNDR
Should you be buying Copa stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Copa include SkyWest (SKYW), Alaska Air Group (ALK), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Azul (AZUL), Frontier Group (ULCC), American Airlines Group (AAL), Scorpio Tankers (STNG), Euronav (EURN), and Schneider National (SNDR). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
SkyWest (NASDAQ:SKYW) and Copa (NYSE:CPA) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations and dividends.
In the previous week, Copa had 24 more articles in the media than SkyWest. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Copa and 7 mentions for SkyWest. SkyWest's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Copa's score of 0.64 indicating that Copa is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Copa has higher revenue and earnings than SkyWest. Copa is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SkyWest, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SkyWest presently has a consensus target price of $62.25, indicating a potential downside of 18.38%. Copa has a consensus target price of $156.83, indicating a potential upside of 43.41%. Given SkyWest's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Copa is more favorable than SkyWest.
Copa received 192 more outperform votes than SkyWest when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.18% of users gave SkyWest an outperform vote while only 65.11% of users gave Copa an outperform vote.
81.3% of SkyWest shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.1% of Copa shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of SkyWest shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Copa has a net margin of 16.42% compared to Copa's net margin of 3.83%. SkyWest's return on equity of 36.59% beat Copa's return on equity.
SkyWest has a beta of 1.89, meaning that its stock price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Copa has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Copa beats SkyWest on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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