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Delta Air Lines (DAL) Competitors

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$63.64 -1.11 (-1.71%)
(As of 11/20/2024 ET)

DAL vs. UAL, LUV, ALK, SKYW, CPA, JBLU, ALGT, RYAAY, AAL, and ULCC

Should you be buying Delta Air Lines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Delta Air Lines include United Airlines (UAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), Alaska Air Group (ALK), SkyWest (SKYW), Copa (CPA), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Ryanair (RYAAY), American Airlines Group (AAL), and Frontier Group (ULCC). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.

Delta Air Lines vs.

United Airlines (NASDAQ:UAL) and Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.

United Airlines presently has a consensus target price of $88.28, indicating a potential downside of 6.71%. Delta Air Lines has a consensus target price of $71.22, indicating a potential upside of 11.90%. Given Delta Air Lines' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Delta Air Lines is more favorable than United Airlines.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
United Airlines
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
14 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.93
Delta Air Lines
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
13 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.07

Delta Air Lines has higher revenue and earnings than United Airlines. Delta Air Lines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than United Airlines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
United Airlines$55.99B0.56$2.62B$8.2911.41
Delta Air Lines$60.31B0.68$4.61B$7.208.84

United Airlines has a beta of 1.39, meaning that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Delta Air Lines has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Delta Air Lines received 259 more outperform votes than United Airlines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.62% of users gave Delta Air Lines an outperform vote while only 66.44% of users gave United Airlines an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
United AirlinesOutperform Votes
986
66.44%
Underperform Votes
498
33.56%
Delta Air LinesOutperform Votes
1245
76.62%
Underperform Votes
380
23.38%

69.7% of United Airlines shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.9% of Delta Air Lines shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of United Airlines shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Delta Air Lines shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Delta Air Lines has a net margin of 7.71% compared to United Airlines' net margin of 4.94%. United Airlines' return on equity of 30.72% beat Delta Air Lines' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
United Airlines4.94% 30.72% 4.30%
Delta Air Lines 7.71%29.93%4.83%

In the previous week, Delta Air Lines had 25 more articles in the media than United Airlines. MarketBeat recorded 53 mentions for Delta Air Lines and 28 mentions for United Airlines. United Airlines' average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Delta Air Lines' score of 0.82 indicating that United Airlines is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
United Airlines
10 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Delta Air Lines
22 Very Positive mention(s)
5 Positive mention(s)
16 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Delta Air Lines beats United Airlines on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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DAL vs. The Competition

MetricDelta Air LinesAir transportation, scheduled IndustryTransportation SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$41.07B$2.27T$331.28B$19.89B
Dividend Yield0.94%2.56%4.48%3.54%
P/E Ratio8.849.8617.8342.83
Price / Sales0.68194.4455.5518.13
Price / Cash6.487.859.0717.86
Price / Book3.692.142.215.52
Net Income$4.61B$799.75M$570.30M$986.45M
7 Day Performance-1.27%-2.86%-1.41%-0.22%
1 Month Performance14.05%0.89%-1.71%0.12%
1 Year Performance74.36%8.22%13.46%23.71%

Delta Air Lines Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DAL
Delta Air Lines
4.7301 of 5 stars
$63.64
-1.7%
$71.22
+11.9%
+74.4%$41.07B$60.31B8.84100,000
UAL
United Airlines
4.2976 of 5 stars
$94.63
+0.4%
$88.28
-6.7%
+136.5%$31.00B$53.72B11.4110,300Analyst Forecast
LUV
Southwest Airlines
3.7403 of 5 stars
$31.77
-1.8%
$30.78
-3.1%
+26.4%$19.41B$26.09B0.0074,806
ALK
Alaska Air Group
3.8186 of 5 stars
$53.12
+0.1%
$57.31
+7.9%
+42.4%$6.74B$10.43B21.4226,043
SKYW
SkyWest
3.6989 of 5 stars
$108.98
-0.8%
$105.75
-3.0%
+130.1%$4.43B$2.94B18.6313,121
CPA
Copa
4.869 of 5 stars
$105.83
-1.3%
$148.83
+40.6%
+11.9%$4.17B$3.46B6.487,625News Coverage
JBLU
JetBlue Airways
3.1438 of 5 stars
$6.04
+1.3%
$6.43
+6.4%
+37.3%$2.07B$9.62B0.0023,388
ALGT
Allegiant Travel
3.7736 of 5 stars
$72.70
+2.7%
$70.11
-3.6%
+4.4%$1.33B$2.50B-48.475,643Analyst Revision
RYAAY
Ryanair
4.2811 of 5 stars
$43.94
-2.4%
$154.67
+252.0%
-61.9%$24.50B$14.59B14.6527,076Positive News
AAL
American Airlines Group
3.6409 of 5 stars
$14.46
+0.9%
$13.96
-3.4%
+16.6%$9.50B$53.61B43.82132,100Analyst Revision
ULCC
Frontier Group
3.0215 of 5 stars
$5.47
+1.5%
$6.52
+19.1%
+38.1%$1.21B$3.59B0.007,235Gap Down

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This page (NYSE:DAL) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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