DESP vs. RXO, GBTG, GSL, NAT, CYRX, HTLD, ATSG, TNP, VTOL, and SNCY
Should you be buying Despegar.com stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Despegar.com include RXO (RXO), Global Business Travel Group (GBTG), Global Ship Lease (GSL), Nordic American Tankers (NAT), Cryoport (CYRX), Heartland Express (HTLD), Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), Tsakos Energy Navigation (TNP), Bristow Group (VTOL), and Sun Country Airlines (SNCY). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Despegar.com (NYSE:DESP) and RXO (NYSE:RXO) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.
Despegar.com has higher earnings, but lower revenue than RXO. RXO is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Despegar.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Despegar.com presently has a consensus target price of $14.38, indicating a potential upside of 18.41%. RXO has a consensus target price of $20.55, indicating a potential downside of 0.55%. Given Despegar.com's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Despegar.com is more favorable than RXO.
Despegar.com has a beta of 2.03, suggesting that its share price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RXO has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Despegar.com received 248 more outperform votes than RXO when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.61% of users gave Despegar.com an outperform vote while only 20.45% of users gave RXO an outperform vote.
67.9% of Despegar.com shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of RXO shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Despegar.com shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of RXO shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, RXO had 6 more articles in the media than Despegar.com. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for RXO and 5 mentions for Despegar.com. RXO's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Despegar.com's score of 0.48 indicating that RXO is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Despegar.com has a net margin of 3.37% compared to RXO's net margin of -0.29%. RXO's return on equity of 3.23% beat Despegar.com's return on equity.
Summary
Despegar.com beats RXO on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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