CPA vs. ALK, SKYW, JBLU, ALGT, HA, DAL, UAL, LUV, AAL, and AZUL
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), Hawaiian (HA), Delta Air Lines (DAL), United Airlines (UAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), American Airlines Group (AAL), and Azul (AZUL). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) and Copa (NYSE:CPA) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations and dividends.
In the previous week, Copa had 2 more articles in the media than Alaska Air Group. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Copa and 7 mentions for Alaska Air Group. Copa's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Alaska Air Group's score of 0.73 indicating that Alaska Air Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Copa has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
Alaska Air Group presently has a consensus target price of $56.60, indicating a potential upside of 37.47%. Copa has a consensus target price of $154.43, indicating a potential upside of 55.77%. Given Alaska Air Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Copa is more favorable than Alaska Air Group.
Alaska Air Group received 177 more outperform votes than Copa when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.61% of users gave Alaska Air Group an outperform vote while only 65.15% of users gave Copa an outperform vote.
81.9% of Alaska Air Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.1% of Copa 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 hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Copa has a net margin of 16.42% compared to Copa's net margin of 2.34%. Alaska Air Group's return on equity of 36.59% beat Copa's return on equity.
Alaska Air Group has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Copa has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Copa beats Alaska Air Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding CPA and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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