ALK vs. LUV, SKYW, JBLU, ALGT, CPA, DAL, UAL, RYAAY, AAL, and ULCC
Should you be buying Alaska Air Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alaska Air Group include Southwest Airlines (LUV), SkyWest (SKYW), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Copa (CPA), Delta Air Lines (DAL), United Airlines (UAL), Ryanair (RYAAY), American Airlines Group (AAL), and Frontier Group (ULCC). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Alaska Air Group vs.
Southwest Airlines (NYSE:LUV) and Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, earnings and media sentiment.
Southwest Airlines has higher revenue and earnings than Alaska Air Group. Southwest Airlines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alaska Air Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Southwest Airlines currently has a consensus target price of $32.31, indicating a potential upside of 1.34%. Alaska Air Group has a consensus target price of $72.57, indicating a potential upside of 7.87%. Given Alaska Air Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Alaska Air Group is more favorable than Southwest Airlines.
Alaska Air Group has a net margin of 2.99% compared to Southwest Airlines' net margin of -0.06%. Alaska Air Group's return on equity of 12.81% beat Southwest Airlines' return on equity.
Southwest Airlines has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alaska Air Group has a beta of 1.54, indicating that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
80.8% of Southwest Airlines shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Alaska Air Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Southwest Airlines shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Alaska Air Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Southwest Airlines received 297 more outperform votes than Alaska Air Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.05% of users gave Alaska Air Group an outperform vote while only 68.95% of users gave Southwest Airlines an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Southwest Airlines had 9 more articles in the media than Alaska Air Group. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Southwest Airlines and 21 mentions for Alaska Air Group. Alaska Air Group's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Southwest Airlines' score of -0.08 indicating that Alaska Air Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Alaska Air Group beats Southwest Airlines on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ALK) was last updated on 1/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
