ALGT vs. HA, JBLU, MESA, SKYW, CPA, SNCY, ULCC, VLRS, SAVE, and AZUL
Should you be buying Allegiant Travel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Allegiant Travel include Hawaiian (HA), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Mesa Air Group (MESA), SkyWest (SKYW), Copa (CPA), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), Frontier Group (ULCC), Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (VLRS), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), and Azul (AZUL). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
Hawaiian (NASDAQ:HA) and Allegiant Travel (NASDAQ:ALGT) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Hawaiian had 16 more articles in the media than Allegiant Travel. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Hawaiian and 12 mentions for Allegiant Travel. Hawaiian's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat Allegiant Travel's score of 0.11 indicating that Allegiant Travel is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Allegiant Travel has a net margin of 4.54% compared to Allegiant Travel's net margin of -10.90%. Hawaiian's return on equity of 3.80% beat Allegiant Travel's return on equity.
Allegiant Travel received 96 more outperform votes than Hawaiian when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.04% of users gave Allegiant Travel an outperform vote while only 52.36% of users gave Hawaiian an outperform vote.
Hawaiian has a beta of 2.37, meaning that its share price is 137% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Allegiant Travel has a beta of 1.63, meaning that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
70.2% of Hawaiian shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.8% of Allegiant Travel shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.8% of Hawaiian shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.5% of Allegiant Travel shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Allegiant Travel has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Hawaiian. Hawaiian is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Allegiant Travel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hawaiian presently has a consensus target price of $11.33, suggesting a potential downside of 9.77%. Allegiant Travel has a consensus target price of $89.75, suggesting a potential upside of 65.07%. Given Hawaiian's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Allegiant Travel is more favorable than Hawaiian.
Summary
Allegiant Travel beats Hawaiian on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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