CPA vs. ALK, SKYW, JBLU, ALGT, DAL, UAL, LUV, AAL, ULCC, and VLRS
Should you be buying Copa stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Copa include Alaska Air Group (ALK), SkyWest (SKYW), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Delta Air Lines (DAL), United Airlines (UAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), American Airlines Group (AAL), Frontier Group (ULCC), and Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (VLRS). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Copa vs.
Copa (NYSE:CPA) and Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
Copa has a net margin of 17.67% compared to Alaska Air Group's net margin of 3.37%. Copa's return on equity of 26.70% beat Alaska Air Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Alaska Air Group had 3 more articles in the media than Copa. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Alaska Air Group and 12 mentions for Copa. Alaska Air Group's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Copa's score of 0.62 indicating that Alaska Air Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Copa has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Alaska Air Group. Copa 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.
70.1% of Copa shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Alaska Air Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Alaska Air Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Copa has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alaska Air Group has a beta of 1.55, suggesting that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Copa presently has a consensus target price of $153.29, indicating a potential upside of 61.78%. Alaska Air Group has a consensus target price of $76.69, indicating a potential upside of 9.61%. Given Copa's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Copa is more favorable than Alaska Air Group.
Alaska Air Group received 191 more outperform votes than Copa when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.07% of users gave Alaska Air Group an outperform vote while only 65.00% of users gave Copa an outperform vote.
Summary
Alaska Air Group beats Copa on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:CPA) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
