ULCC vs. ALGT, VLRS, HA, JBLU, SNCY, SAVE, AZUL, SKYW, CPA, and ALK
Should you be buying Frontier Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Frontier Group include Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (VLRS), Hawaiian (HA), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Azul (AZUL), SkyWest (SKYW), Copa (CPA), and Alaska Air Group (ALK). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Frontier Group (NASDAQ:ULCC) and Allegiant Travel (NASDAQ:ALGT) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership and risk.
85.8% of Allegiant Travel shares are held by institutional investors. 81.5% of Frontier Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.5% of Allegiant Travel shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Frontier Group currently has a consensus target price of $7.28, suggesting a potential upside of 23.00%. Allegiant Travel has a consensus target price of $86.00, suggesting a potential upside of 62.33%. Given Allegiant Travel's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Allegiant Travel is more favorable than Frontier Group.
In the previous week, Allegiant Travel had 6 more articles in the media than Frontier Group. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Allegiant Travel and 6 mentions for Frontier Group. Frontier Group's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Allegiant Travel's score of 0.22 indicating that Frontier Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Allegiant Travel has a net margin of 2.26% compared to Frontier Group's net margin of -0.67%. Frontier Group's return on equity of 3.62% beat Allegiant Travel's return on equity.
Allegiant Travel has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Frontier Group. Frontier Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Allegiant Travel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Frontier Group has a beta of 2.63, suggesting that its stock price is 163% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Allegiant Travel has a beta of 1.63, suggesting that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Allegiant Travel received 499 more outperform votes than Frontier Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.91% of users gave Allegiant Travel an outperform vote while only 41.67% of users gave Frontier Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Allegiant Travel beats Frontier Group on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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