WLFC vs. ASLE, YELLQ, PTSI, HDSN, SAVE, OSG, CLCO, PANL, DSX, and HSHP
Should you be buying Willis Lease Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Willis Lease Finance include AerSale (ASLE), Yellow (YELLQ), P.A.M. Transportation Services (PTSI), Hudson Technologies (HDSN), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), Cool (CLCO), Pangaea Logistics Solutions (PANL), Diana Shipping (DSX), and Himalaya Shipping (HSHP).
AerSale (NASDAQ:ASLE) and Willis Lease Finance (NASDAQ:WLFC) are both small-cap aerospace companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Willis Lease Finance has higher revenue and earnings than AerSale. AerSale is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Willis Lease Finance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Willis Lease Finance has a net margin of 13.45% compared to Willis Lease Finance's net margin of 0.20%. AerSale's return on equity of 13.77% beat Willis Lease Finance's return on equity.
69.5% of AerSale shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.7% of Willis Lease Finance shares are held by institutional investors. 37.3% of AerSale shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 57.0% of Willis Lease Finance shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
AerSale presently has a consensus price target of $17.00, suggesting a potential upside of 117.67%. Given Willis Lease Finance's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe AerSale is more favorable than Willis Lease Finance.
AerSale has a beta of 0.23, meaning that its share price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Willis Lease Finance has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Willis Lease Finance received 156 more outperform votes than AerSale when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.74% of users gave Willis Lease Finance an outperform vote while only 45.00% of users gave AerSale an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Willis Lease Finance had 2 more articles in the media than AerSale. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Willis Lease Finance and 7 mentions for AerSale. Willis Lease Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat AerSale's score of 0.56 indicating that AerSale is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Willis Lease Finance beats AerSale on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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