ULCC vs. ALGT, JBLU, VLRS, SNCY, HA, SAVE, AZUL, SKYW, CPA, and NMM
Should you be buying Frontier Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Frontier Group include Allegiant Travel (ALGT), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (VLRS), Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), Hawaiian (HA), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Azul (AZUL), SkyWest (SKYW), Copa (CPA), and Navios Maritime Partners (NMM). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Frontier Group (NASDAQ:ULCC) 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 risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Frontier Group presently has a consensus price target of $7.28, indicating a potential upside of 23.63%. Allegiant Travel has a consensus price target of $89.13, indicating a potential upside of 66.78%. Given Allegiant Travel's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Allegiant Travel is more favorable than Frontier Group.
Frontier Group has a beta of 2.63, suggesting that its stock price is 163% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Allegiant Travel has a beta of 1.63, suggesting that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Allegiant Travel received 499 more outperform votes than Frontier Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.97% of users gave Allegiant Travel an outperform vote while only 41.67% of users gave Frontier Group an outperform vote.
Allegiant Travel has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Frontier Group. Frontier Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Allegiant Travel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Allegiant Travel has a net margin of 4.54% compared to Frontier Group's net margin of -0.67%. Allegiant Travel's return on equity of 3.80% beat Frontier Group's return on equity.
85.8% of Allegiant Travel shares are owned by institutional investors. 81.5% of Frontier Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.5% of Allegiant Travel shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Allegiant Travel had 17 more articles in the media than Frontier Group. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Allegiant Travel and 5 mentions for Frontier Group. Frontier Group's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Allegiant Travel's score of 0.47 indicating that Frontier Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Allegiant Travel beats Frontier Group on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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