VLRS vs. AZUL, JBLU, ULCC, ALGT, HA, SNCY, SAVE, MESA, DAL, and RYAAY
Should you be buying Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación include Azul (AZUL), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Frontier Group (ULCC), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Hawaiian (HA), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Mesa Air Group (MESA), Delta Air Lines (DAL), and Ryanair (RYAAY). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (NYSE:VLRS) and Azul (NYSE:AZUL) are both transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Azul. Azul is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación has a beta of 2.49, indicating that its share price is 149% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Azul has a beta of 1.94, indicating that its share price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación has a net margin of 3.40% compared to Azul's net margin of -6.90%. Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación's return on equity of 54.46% beat Azul's return on equity.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación currently has a consensus target price of $13.01, indicating a potential upside of 63.19%. Azul has a consensus target price of $11.12, indicating a potential upside of 109.16%. Given Azul's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Azul is more favorable than Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación.
In the previous week, Azul had 20 more articles in the media than Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Azul and 6 mentions for Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación. Azul's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación's score of 0.13 indicating that Azul is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
53.3% of Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.8% of Azul shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Azul shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Azul received 5 more outperform votes than Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.72% of users gave Azul an outperform vote while only 64.61% of users gave Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación an outperform vote.
Summary
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación beats Azul on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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