JBLU vs. SKYW, CPA, ALGT, DAL, UAL, LUV, ALK, ULCC, VLRS, and SNCY
Should you be buying JetBlue Airways stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of JetBlue Airways include SkyWest (SKYW), Copa (CPA), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), 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.
JetBlue Airways vs.
JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ:JBLU) and SkyWest (NASDAQ:SKYW) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, media sentiment and dividends.
JetBlue Airways presently has a consensus target price of $6.26, indicating a potential downside of 13.54%. SkyWest has a consensus target price of $109.75, indicating a potential upside of 8.65%. Given SkyWest's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe SkyWest is more favorable than JetBlue Airways.
SkyWest has lower revenue, but higher earnings than JetBlue Airways. JetBlue Airways is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SkyWest, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, JetBlue Airways had 17 more articles in the media than SkyWest. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for JetBlue Airways and 9 mentions for SkyWest. JetBlue Airways' average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat SkyWest's score of 0.19 indicating that JetBlue Airways is being referred to more favorably in the media.
83.7% of JetBlue Airways shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.3% of SkyWest shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of JetBlue Airways shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of SkyWest shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
JetBlue Airways received 271 more outperform votes than SkyWest when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.32% of users gave SkyWest an outperform vote while only 60.45% of users gave JetBlue Airways an outperform vote.
JetBlue Airways has a beta of 1.83, suggesting that its share price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SkyWest has a beta of 1.98, suggesting that its share price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SkyWest has a net margin of 9.15% compared to JetBlue Airways' net margin of -8.57%. SkyWest's return on equity of 14.17% beat JetBlue Airways' return on equity.
Summary
SkyWest beats JetBlue Airways on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:JBLU) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
