JBLU vs. SKYW, ALGT, HA, SAVE, CPA, MESA, ALK, AZUL, ULCC, and SNCY
Should you be buying JetBlue Airways stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of JetBlue Airways include SkyWest (SKYW), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Hawaiian (HA), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Copa (CPA), Mesa Air Group (MESA), Alaska Air Group (ALK), Azul (AZUL), Frontier Group (ULCC), and Sun Country Airlines (SNCY). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
SkyWest (NASDAQ:SKYW) and JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ:JBLU) are both transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and risk.
81.3% of SkyWest shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.7% of JetBlue Airways shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of SkyWest shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of JetBlue Airways shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, JetBlue Airways had 28 more articles in the media than SkyWest. MarketBeat recorded 47 mentions for JetBlue Airways and 19 mentions for SkyWest. JetBlue Airways' average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat SkyWest's score of -0.01 indicating that SkyWest is being referred to more favorably in the media.
JetBlue Airways received 276 more outperform votes than SkyWest when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.18% of users gave SkyWest an outperform vote while only 61.73% of users gave JetBlue Airways an outperform vote.
SkyWest has higher earnings, but lower revenue than JetBlue Airways. JetBlue Airways is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SkyWest, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SkyWest presently has a consensus target price of $62.25, indicating a potential downside of 15.49%. JetBlue Airways has a consensus target price of $5.78, indicating a potential downside of 0.09%. Given SkyWest's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe JetBlue Airways is more favorable than SkyWest.
SkyWest has a net margin of 3.83% compared to SkyWest's net margin of -8.79%. JetBlue Airways' return on equity of 5.46% beat SkyWest's return on equity.
SkyWest has a beta of 1.95, suggesting that its stock price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JetBlue Airways has a beta of 1.86, suggesting that its stock price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
SkyWest beats JetBlue Airways on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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