SNCY vs. SPCE, JBLU, ULCC, ALGT, HA, VLRS, SAVE, MESA, DAL, and RYAAY
Should you be buying Sun Country Airlines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sun Country Airlines include Virgin Galactic (SPCE), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Frontier Group (ULCC), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Hawaiian (HA), Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (VLRS), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Mesa Air Group (MESA), Delta Air Lines (DAL), and Ryanair (RYAAY).
Sun Country Airlines (NASDAQ:SNCY) and Virgin Galactic (NYSE:SPCE) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation and earnings.
46.6% of Virgin Galactic shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.5% of Sun Country Airlines shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Virgin Galactic shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Sun Country Airlines presently has a consensus target price of $19.17, suggesting a potential upside of 101.12%. Virgin Galactic has a consensus target price of $2.26, suggesting a potential upside of 138.02%. Given Virgin Galactic's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Virgin Galactic is more favorable than Sun Country Airlines.
Sun Country Airlines has a beta of 1.63, suggesting that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Virgin Galactic has a beta of 1.71, suggesting that its share price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Virgin Galactic had 10 more articles in the media than Sun Country Airlines. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Virgin Galactic and 4 mentions for Sun Country Airlines. Sun Country Airlines' average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat Virgin Galactic's score of 0.29 indicating that Sun Country Airlines is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sun Country Airlines has higher revenue and earnings than Virgin Galactic. Virgin Galactic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sun Country Airlines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sun Country Airlines has a net margin of 6.48% compared to Virgin Galactic's net margin of -5,301.61%. Sun Country Airlines' return on equity of 14.35% beat Virgin Galactic's return on equity.
Virgin Galactic received 120 more outperform votes than Sun Country Airlines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.89% of users gave Virgin Galactic an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave Sun Country Airlines an outperform vote.
Summary
Sun Country Airlines beats Virgin Galactic on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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