DESP vs. RXO, GBTG, HTLD, NAT, GSL, VTOL, CYRX, TNP, GNK, and ATSG Should you be buying Despegar.com stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Despegar.com include RXO (RXO), Global Business Travel Group (GBTG), Heartland Express (HTLD), Nordic American Tankers (NAT), Global Ship Lease (GSL), Bristow Group (VTOL), Cryoport (CYRX), Tsakos Energy Navigation (TNP), Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK), and Air Transport Services Group (ATSG). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
RXO (NYSE:RXO ) and Despegar.com (NYSE:DESP ) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends and institutional ownership.
92.7% of RXO shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.9% of Despegar.com shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of RXO shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Despegar.com shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
RXO presently has a consensus target price of $20.55, indicating a potential downside of 0.17%. Despegar.com has a consensus target price of $15.88, indicating a potential upside of 6.26%. Given RXO's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Despegar.com is more favorable than RXO.
RXO has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Despegar.com has a beta of 2.03, suggesting that its stock price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Despegar.com had 12 more articles in the media than RXO. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Despegar.com and 7 mentions for RXO. Despegar.com's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat RXO's score of 0.57 indicating that RXO is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Despegar.com received 250 more outperform votes than RXO when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.80% of users gave Despegar.com an outperform vote while only 20.00% of users gave RXO an outperform vote.
Despegar.com has lower revenue, but higher earnings than RXO.
Despegar.com has a net margin of 5.31% compared to Despegar.com's net margin of -0.29%. Despegar.com's return on equity of 3.23% beat RXO's return on equity.
Summary Despegar.com beats RXO on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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