CPA vs. SKYW, ALK, JBLU, ALGT, AZUL, ULCC, AAL, STNG, MATX, and SNDR
Should you be buying Copa stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Copa include SkyWest (SKYW), Alaska Air Group (ALK), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Azul (AZUL), Frontier Group (ULCC), American Airlines Group (AAL), Scorpio Tankers (STNG), Matson (MATX), and Schneider National (SNDR). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
SkyWest (NASDAQ:SKYW) and Copa (NYSE:CPA) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
81.3% of SkyWest shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.1% of Copa shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of SkyWest shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Copa received 188 more outperform votes than SkyWest when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.18% of users gave SkyWest an outperform vote while only 64.97% of users gave Copa an outperform vote.
In the previous week, SkyWest had 13 more articles in the media than Copa. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for SkyWest and 6 mentions for Copa. SkyWest's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Copa's score of 0.81 indicating that Copa is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SkyWest presently has a consensus price target of $62.25, indicating a potential downside of 15.49%. Copa has a consensus price target of $146.33, indicating a potential upside of 47.89%. Given SkyWest's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Copa is more favorable than SkyWest.
Copa has a net margin of 14.97% compared to Copa's net margin of 3.83%. SkyWest's return on equity of 37.03% beat Copa's return on equity.
Copa has higher revenue and earnings than SkyWest. Copa is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SkyWest, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SkyWest has a beta of 1.95, suggesting that its share price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Copa has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Copa beats SkyWest on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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