ALGT vs. SKYW, JBLU, DAL, UAL, LUV, ALK, CPA, ULCC, AZUL, and VLRS
Should you be buying Allegiant Travel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Allegiant Travel include SkyWest (SKYW), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Delta Air Lines (DAL), United Airlines (UAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), Alaska Air Group (ALK), Copa (CPA), Frontier Group (ULCC), Azul (AZUL), and Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (VLRS). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Allegiant Travel vs.
Allegiant Travel (NASDAQ:ALGT) and SkyWest (NASDAQ:SKYW) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk and analyst recommendations.
SkyWest has higher revenue and earnings than Allegiant Travel. Allegiant Travel is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SkyWest, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Allegiant Travel received 84 more outperform votes than SkyWest when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.21% of users gave SkyWest an outperform vote while only 56.89% of users gave Allegiant Travel an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Allegiant Travel had 1 more articles in the media than SkyWest. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Allegiant Travel and 23 mentions for SkyWest. SkyWest's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Allegiant Travel's score of 0.14 indicating that SkyWest is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SkyWest has a net margin of 9.15% compared to Allegiant Travel's net margin of -9.56%. SkyWest's return on equity of 14.17% beat Allegiant Travel's return on equity.
85.8% of Allegiant Travel shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.3% of SkyWest shares are held by institutional investors. 15.8% of Allegiant Travel shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of SkyWest shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Allegiant Travel pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. SkyWest pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Allegiant Travel pays out -18.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SkyWest pays out 7.2% 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. Allegiant Travel is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Allegiant Travel has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SkyWest has a beta of 1.83, indicating that its share price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Allegiant Travel presently has a consensus price target of $67.00, suggesting a potential upside of 49.12%. SkyWest has a consensus price target of $120.67, suggesting a potential upside of 41.79%. Given Allegiant Travel's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Allegiant Travel is more favorable than SkyWest.
Summary
SkyWest beats Allegiant Travel on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:ALGT) was last updated on 4/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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