ALGT vs. SKYW, CPA, JBLU, DAL, UAL, LUV, ALK, ULCC, VLRS, and SNCY
Should you be buying Allegiant Travel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Allegiant Travel include SkyWest (SKYW), Copa (CPA), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Delta Air Lines (DAL), United Airlines (UAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), Alaska Air Group (ALK), Frontier Group (ULCC), Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (VLRS), and Sun Country Airlines (SNCY). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Allegiant Travel vs.
SkyWest (NASDAQ:SKYW) and Allegiant Travel (NASDAQ:ALGT) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and institutional ownership.
SkyWest has a beta of 1.98, suggesting that its share price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Allegiant Travel has a beta of 1.63, suggesting that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Allegiant Travel received 85 more outperform votes than SkyWest when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.32% of users gave SkyWest an outperform vote while only 57.14% of users gave Allegiant Travel an outperform vote.
In the previous week, SkyWest had 2 more articles in the media than Allegiant Travel. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for SkyWest and 8 mentions for Allegiant Travel. Allegiant Travel's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat SkyWest's score of 0.10 indicating that Allegiant Travel 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.
81.3% of SkyWest shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.8% of Allegiant Travel shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of SkyWest shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.8% of Allegiant Travel shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
SkyWest currently has a consensus price target of $109.75, indicating a potential upside of 13.55%. Allegiant Travel has a consensus price target of $80.10, indicating a potential downside of 1.89%. Given SkyWest's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe SkyWest is more favorable than Allegiant Travel.
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.
Summary
SkyWest beats Allegiant Travel on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:ALGT) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
