UAL vs. DAL, LUV, ALK, SKYW, CPA, JBLU, ALGT, RYAAY, AAL, and ULCC
Should you be buying United Airlines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of United Airlines include Delta Air Lines (DAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), Alaska Air Group (ALK), SkyWest (SKYW), Copa (CPA), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Ryanair (RYAAY), American Airlines Group (AAL), and Frontier Group (ULCC). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
United Airlines vs.
United Airlines (NASDAQ:UAL) and Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and profitability.
In the previous week, Delta Air Lines had 7 more articles in the media than United Airlines. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Delta Air Lines and 33 mentions for United Airlines. United Airlines' average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Delta Air Lines' score of 0.64 indicating that United Airlines is being referred to more favorably in the media.
United Airlines presently has a consensus target price of $113.88, suggesting a potential upside of 11.11%. Delta Air Lines has a consensus target price of $78.22, suggesting a potential upside of 22.71%. Given Delta Air Lines' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Delta Air Lines is more favorable than United Airlines.
Delta Air Lines has a net margin of 5.61% compared to United Airlines' net margin of 5.52%. United Airlines' return on equity of 32.26% beat Delta Air Lines' return on equity.
United Airlines has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Delta Air Lines has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
69.7% of United Airlines shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.9% of Delta Air Lines shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of United Airlines shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Delta Air Lines shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Delta Air Lines has higher revenue and earnings than United Airlines. United Airlines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Delta Air Lines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Delta Air Lines received 253 more outperform votes than United Airlines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.67% of users gave Delta Air Lines an outperform vote while only 66.73% of users gave United Airlines an outperform vote.
Summary
Delta Air Lines beats United Airlines on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:UAL) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
