VLRS vs. SNCY, HA, SAVE, ALGT, ULCC, JBLU, AZUL, SKYW, VTOL, and TNP
Should you be buying Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación include Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), Hawaiian (HA), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Frontier Group (ULCC), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Azul (AZUL), SkyWest (SKYW), Bristow Group (VTOL), and Tsakos Energy Navigation (TNP). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Sun Country Airlines (NASDAQ:SNCY) and Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (NYSE:VLRS) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Sun Country Airlines currently has a consensus price target of $19.60, indicating a potential upside of 44.22%. Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación has a consensus price target of $14.02, indicating a potential upside of 68.07%. Given Sun Country Airlines' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación is more favorable than Sun Country Airlines.
In the previous week, Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación had 4 more articles in the media than Sun Country Airlines. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación and 4 mentions for Sun Country Airlines. Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Sun Country Airlines' score of 0.43 indicating that Sun Country Airlines is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación received 345 more outperform votes than Sun Country Airlines when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.49% of users gave Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación an outperform vote while only 32.26% of users gave Sun Country Airlines an outperform vote.
53.3% of Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.5% of Sun Country Airlines shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación shares are owned 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.
Sun Country Airlines has a beta of 1.63, indicating that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación has a beta of 2.48, indicating that its share price is 148% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sun Country Airlines has a net margin of 6.88% compared to Sun Country Airlines' net margin of 3.40%. Sun Country Airlines' return on equity of 54.46% beat Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación's return on equity.
Sun Country Airlines has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación. Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sun Country Airlines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación beats Sun Country Airlines on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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