ALK vs. UAL, LUV, CPA, SKYW, JBLU, ALGT, HA, DAL, AAL, and AZUL
Should you be buying Alaska Air Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alaska Air Group include United Airlines (UAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), Copa (CPA), SkyWest (SKYW), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Hawaiian (HA), Delta Air Lines (DAL), American Airlines Group (AAL), and Azul (AZUL). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) and United Airlines (NASDAQ:UAL) are both transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.
81.9% of Alaska Air Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.7% of United Airlines shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Alaska Air Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of United Airlines 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.
Alaska Air Group presently has a consensus price target of $56.60, suggesting a potential upside of 34.71%. United Airlines has a consensus price target of $69.72, suggesting a potential upside of 31.57%. Given Alaska Air Group's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Alaska Air Group is more favorable than United Airlines.
United Airlines has higher revenue and earnings than Alaska Air Group. United 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.
United Airlines has a net margin of 4.90% compared to Alaska Air Group's net margin of 2.34%. United Airlines' return on equity of 39.85% beat Alaska Air Group's return on equity.
United Airlines received 151 more outperform votes than Alaska Air Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.61% of users gave Alaska Air Group an outperform vote while only 66.10% of users gave United Airlines an outperform vote.
Alaska Air Group has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, United Airlines has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, United Airlines had 31 more articles in the media than Alaska Air Group. MarketBeat recorded 39 mentions for United Airlines and 8 mentions for Alaska Air Group. Alaska Air Group's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat United Airlines' score of 0.64 indicating that Alaska Air Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
United Airlines beats Alaska Air Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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