SKYW vs. CPA, JBLU, ALGT, ALK, AZUL, ULCC, HA, SAVE, MESA, and AAL
Should you be buying SkyWest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SkyWest include Copa (CPA), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Alaska Air Group (ALK), Azul (AZUL), Frontier Group (ULCC), Hawaiian (HA), Spirit Airlines (SAVE), Mesa Air Group (MESA), and American Airlines Group (AAL). These companies are all part of the "air transportation, scheduled" industry.
SkyWest (NASDAQ:SKYW) and Copa (NYSE:CPA) are both mid-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.
SkyWest presently has a consensus price target of $62.25, indicating a potential downside of 18.38%. Copa has a consensus price target of $156.83, indicating a potential upside of 42.98%. Given Copa's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Copa is more favorable than SkyWest.
SkyWest has a beta of 1.89, suggesting that its stock price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Copa has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Copa received 191 more outperform votes than SkyWest when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.18% of users gave SkyWest an outperform vote while only 65.08% of users gave Copa an outperform vote.
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.
Copa has a net margin of 16.42% compared to SkyWest's net margin of 3.83%. Copa's return on equity of 36.59% beat SkyWest's return on equity.
81.3% of SkyWest shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.1% of Copa shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of SkyWest 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, Copa had 12 more articles in the media than SkyWest. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Copa and 11 mentions for SkyWest. Copa's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat SkyWest's score of 0.54 indicating that Copa is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Copa beats SkyWest on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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